Your body is doing something extraordinary, and it may not feel like it. As your bump grows, the mirror can start to feel like an unfamiliar place. This book is a calm, practical companion for every expectant parent who has felt the tug between gratitude for a growing baby and grief, frustration, or plain confusion about a changing shape. Inside, you'll find trimester-by-trimester knowledge about what is really happening, honest strategies for silencing the inner critic, and scripts for defusing the comments, comparisons, and social-media noise that surround you. With chapters on movement, clothing, intimacy, and preparing for the postpartum body, this is not about loving every inch of yourself — it's about building a working truce with a body that is doing its job. Written without judgment and with room for complicated feelings, it meets you wherever you are: partnered or alone, anxious or excited, first pregnancy or third. Part of The Pregnancy Companion Library.