Remember when pregnancy was the one time in a woman’s life where she could be fat and happy about it? No more, as experts say “Mommyrexia” is on the rise, with women carefully watching their calorie intake and exercising excessively during pregnancy in an effort to avoid putting on any extra baby weight. They say some women are even going so far as to schedule C-sections during their eighth month of pregnancy and are skipping breast-feeding, all in an attempt to stay thin.
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