Feeling so ugly after pregnancy. How do you bounce back?!

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Due to loss I'd been pregnant for nearly two years with only weeks long gaps in that time. I finally had my baby 8 weeks ago. I want to just soak it up but every picture of me and my baby makes me want to cry! My face is so round, my teeth seem to of gone awful, my hair is crap, my stomach is loose. I feel gross! All I want to eat is dairy milk and I'm eating pints of ice cream and way too many packets of biscuits a week. I am constantly breastfeeding and don't have time to exercise. It makes me want to sob!

It might help to remember that few women feel at their best at this time. You will probably feel a lot better about yourself in another year.

I never ate so much as when I was feeding as I was constantly hungry. Accept that you need to fuel your body body and it’s important to get plenty of calories. I would cut down on the sugar though as you are probably having constant sugar highs and lows which are probably not helping with sustaining your energy / the way you are feeling.

I hope you start to feel better.