Mums! How are we levelling up and getting our pink back in 2026!

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I have had 2 young children and I am 29, in 2026 I am returning back to my job I worked hard for part time, and I want to optimise my health.
I want to sort out my gut/ maintain my weight loss/ invest more time into self care and not feel guilty to have things done one off for just me (beauty appts etc).

How are you going to try and get your pink back this year? Xx

Love this flamingo trivia!

It's important for women to find and hold onto an identity beyond motherhood.

The replies on this thread confirm that opening such a conversation by referring to the audience as "mums" who might want to "get their pink back" isn't going to attract the people who might be able to help OP. The ones who've found said identity, for example.

I’m at a loss as to why those people are replying but I really do think it’s fine to refer to mums as mums on a website called mumsnet

'getting my pink back' sounds cringey and ridiculous

Yes it does, doesn't it? I have never defined myself as having pinkness. Incidentally, male flamingos also lose their colouring whilst feeding their young. It isn't a female-only thing.

I don't. Aside from being exceptionally twee, it's insultingly reductive. It also makes no sense on a thread about "getting our pink back", which seems to be specifically about moving away from being just mum.

Nobody's being awful. Most women do not want to be defined by the colour pink. It is cringeworthy.

I found when peoiple talk in this nonsense it often means you're about to be hit with a pitch for a MLM....

It does make sense and OP explained quickly what it meant. But rather than engaging in a perfectly nice discussion that relates to being mum, the professionally offended just HAD to come on and say how terribly sexist the OP is and how it was out of order to use the word mum.

So she didn’t word things in a way you would have. So what. Either get over it or involve yourself in what the OP is actually asking

Who has defined women by the colour pink?

Men! That is who. We have to stay in the pink lane while they get all the better colours,

Agreed, it is very cringe. I also dislike the vocal anti-pinkness (as im the colour) as well, which happens whenever anyone likes anything traditionally feminine on this site.

What’s that got to do with this thread?

Nobody has ever defined me by “pink”. I must be doing something wrong.

And someone e who certainly doesn’t define women by being pink is someone asking advice on how to reclaim her identity outside of motherhood

I’m sure there’s a book called feminists can wear pink that this thread is reminding me of!

No thanks. I'm going to exercise my right to be MY kind of woman. Which isn't the pink type. I am not remotely offended by the OP (to each their own), but I am offended by being told what to do. It's bad enough when men tell us what to do, but for another woman to do so....do you see why many women object to stupid, vapid labels and what we are STILL having to fight for on a daily basis?

What stupid vapid labels for women have been suggested on this thread?

Im not sure you’re the feminist you think you are when you divert a conversation that is supposed to be about reclaiming identity after having young children.

Bloody Hell. I’d never heard of it either but where are you getting not existing as a woman because you don’t like pink from? Extremely dramatic.

It’s referring to the fact that flamingo parents “losing their pink” colouring because they dedicate themselves to their young so much that they become devoid of the nutrients that make them pink.

Well, it cant be addressed to childless women, can it?

Ooh I thought it was like good old 'getting colour back in your cheeks' but I like the flamingo thing too.

Jesus Christ people pink is referring to FLAMINGOS!! Calm down.

https://www.wisegeek.com/why-do-flamingos-become-less-pink-as-parents.htm

What? 😂

It’s not sexist. Make flamingos are pink too. The reference to pink isn’t because it’s seen as a “girly” colour.

It’s supposed to reference what many women experience after having DC. They lose themselves a bit and their life purely revolves around their kids and it can leave them feeling a bit drained. It’s about not feeling guilty for considering yourself and doing some things just for you.

im mid-40s, professional career, single mum, fully independent and would consider myself very strong and capable. I don’t actually wear much pink but I don’t have an issue with “getting your pink back”.

I actually like the analogy. Go for it OP and ignore the anti-pink brigade! They’re probably more city pigeon anyway

Well yes, quite.

However, as I explained up thread, it's never been used in regards to women before now, thankfully.

Not sure if it has been shared yet, I was checking comments, but far too many.

www.facebook.com/share/1AeLxYHdAe/

What do you mean by 'traditionally feminine'?