Want your pre-pregnancy body back? Why that pressure is doing more harm than good.

From the six-week "all clear" to Instagram mums back at CrossFit by 12 weeks, the pressure to bounce back after baby is everywhere. But what is it actually doing to women? Women's health physio Grace Coombs is back on the podcast to unpack it.

Grace sees the fallout in her clinic every week: women rushing back to exercise before their bodies are ready, then dealing with leakage, prolapse, pain and exhaustion that could have been avoided. And on top of it all, feeling like they're failing at a recovery that was never meant to be a race.

We cover:

– Where the pressure to bounce back really comes from

– What rushing back actually does to your body

– Why the six-week check is a starting point, not a finish line

– The outdated pregnancy exercise myths, and what the research says now

– The signs you're genuinely ready to return to exercise

– Why we'd rest a broken bone for 12 weeks, but not a birth

Grace's advice for every woman: pregnancy isn't an injury, and the goal was never to get your old body back. You have a new body, and you can absolutely build strength in it. No shame, no race, no comparison.

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