Have you considered having surgery after having a baby?

According to many sources, mum's considering surgery is on the increase. I personally have not met another mum who has actually had it done, but many of them say that if they had the money they would like the most obvious areas to be given a little help, like, tums, bums and boobs.

However, the argument raised is that if we are not careful we could put ourselves under greater pressure to be "perfect" and not appreciate the wonderful changes that happen to your body after giving birth.

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The article makes for interesting reading.

Here is an extract from it

The UK market is still small, but it is growing. A survey last October for the online bank Egg claimed that 0.2% of new British mothers had had surgery to get back their pre-baby bodies - but the real figure is likely to be higher. The number of cosmetic surgery procedures in the UK has doubled in the past two years, and surgeons report that breast surgery is increasingly popular with women who are unhappy with the way that breast feeding and pregnancy have altered their figures.

The mummy job is all about self-esteem, say fans. It is a misogynist pathologising of the post-pregnancy body, argue critics of the procedure. Diana Zuckerman, president of the US National Research Center for Women and Families, recently said that if marketing could turn the post-pregnancy body "into a socially unacceptable thing, think of how big your audience could be and how many surgeries you could sell them". In short, making women believe that their bodies look disgusting after childbirth is a marketing man's dream.