This Baby Bod Is Bringing Me Down

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Pregnancy has done a number on Abby's mind as much as her body, and she can't stop comparing her figure to others. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious xm triumph 111.
0:11.0	Abby, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Dr. Laura, it's really, really great to talk to you. How are you?
0:18.0	Good. Thank you. What's up?
0:21.0	Well, so a little bit of background. I am a stay-at-home mom. I have one daughter. She's one-year-old. My husband and I have been married for two years.
0:33.0	I've listened to you all my life, and that's helped me a lot, so I appreciate that.
0:38.0	But since being pregnant, which was a while ago, I struggled with a lot of emotional things, especially
0:49.3	with Bonnie Image with my body changing the way that it was. I had never had any kind of
0:55.1	conflicts like that before and then especially after having my daughter it's
1:02.1	become a lot harder where I feel very uncomfortable I I'm
1:10.2	constantly comparing myself. Stop.
1:13.3	You're wasting so much emotion and you're wasting life.
1:20.2	You are not as firm or anything as you used to be when you were 18.
1:27.0	When you were 15 you didn't have to do a setup, your abs were tight.
1:32.0	And as you become 40, 50, 60, and 70, your body is going to
1:36.3	keep changing because you're going to age. So the question is, are you going to sit around and bitch about how the body is changing or are you going to enjoy being a mother and having great sex with your husband?
1:50.0	It's a choice you make.
1:54.0	Right.
1:55.0	You are never going to be as gorgeous as a zillion other women.
2:00.0	So the hell what?
2:02.0	He didn't pick those women he picked you and there were a lot of better
2:05.8	looking girls than you he could have married but he loved you.
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