Size and sensibility
Apr. 10th, 2006 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
percivalI'm 32, and it took a pregnancy for me to even begin to shift my negative "too-fat" body image. I don't want my own daughter to have to go through this, and I presume JKR feels the same, especially with Jessica coming up to puberty. Women are bashed if they are a healthy size, bashed if they are thin, bashed if they are fat ... how on earth can a healthy body image survive this onslaught? I started to read May Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, but had to put it down after one horror story too many about a girl being crushed under the onslaught of cultural expectations. Honestly, it's much more relaxing to read a book about World War I than about the way girls are twisted and torn to pieces by media, society, and last but not least their peers.
In more baby-related news, she's pulling up on everything, munching her way through the Sunday Times (oy vey!), alternating periods of waking every 1-2 hours during the night with spells of only waking 2-3 times, nursing like a monster, sprouting her third tooth and working on the fourth, and asserting that she wants to be with MUMMY!!!! Her eyes are still grey-blue with a ring of brown around the pupils, and her hair is coming in ash blonde.
Nursing her now is lots of fun - when I'm lying down or lying on my side, breasts exposed, she'll crawl over to me and serve herself. She will even keep nursing while I change position or sit up.
In more baby-related news, she's pulling up on everything, munching her way through the Sunday Times (oy vey!), alternating periods of waking every 1-2 hours during the night with spells of only waking 2-3 times, nursing like a monster, sprouting her third tooth and working on the fourth, and asserting that she wants to be with MUMMY!!!! Her eyes are still grey-blue with a ring of brown around the pupils, and her hair is coming in ash blonde.
Nursing her now is lots of fun - when I'm lying down or lying on my side, breasts exposed, she'll crawl over to me and serve herself. She will even keep nursing while I change position or sit up.
