Love Our Families Fearlessly
My son has very strong opinions about my body.
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During our recent time together at Thanksgiving, he was hugging me and then grabbed my belly and said that I needed to get rid of 'this.'
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I told him "Be careful - that was your first home!"
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But seriously, how did this body-positive mom raise a son who questions his own mother's body?
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Society's messages have some credit to take and his developing brain.
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The truth is, Koby is being a mirror about my own lingering body insecurities.
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He hears me mumble how women my age are thinner than me despite my best efforts.
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In the end, I hope Koby remembers the time I went mountain biking with him in college, how I carried and cared for him when he was young, etc.
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The truth is - when Koby thinks about my life and the mother I was to him - he won't be thinking "she would have been perfect if she didn't have a stomach bulge."
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