The postnatal body was constructed as troublesome and abnormal as it was tied to bodily functions (Price & Robinson, 2004). The postpartum body offers a way of understanding both the individual experience of being a mother and the societal bodily ideals (Prinds, Nikolajsen & Folmann, 2018). Prinds, Nikolajsen & Folmann (2018) point out that bodies do not exist independently from their social and cultural context, bodies are objects formed by the context in which they live but at the same time subjects that internalise values in striving for recognition (Dalsgaard & Tjornhoj-Thomsen, 2007)