22/12/2025
Pregnancy during the festive season reveals EVERYTHING 🎄🔥
Who respects your boundaries: ✨ Vs who thinks your pregnant belly is public property
Who asks before touching: 🌙 Vs who just reaches out because “it’s Christmas and everyone’s excited”
Who respects your birth choices: 💫 Vs who questions every decision you’ve researched extensively
Who honours your needs: 🌊 Vs who expects you to perform joy even when you’re exhausted/nauseated/overwhelmed
Who sees you as autonomous: 🔥 Vs who sees your pregnancy as a community project requiring their input
The heightened intensity of this season - all those gatherings, all that family time, all those opinions disguised as “concern” - it’s not just stress to endure.
It’s preparation 💪
Because if you can hold your boundaries now, you can hold them in:
Your birth space (when someone suggests an intervention you don’t want)
Your postpartum (when visitors want to “help” in ways that don’t serve you)
Your parenting (when everyone has opinions about how you’re doing it “wrong”)
The festive season is showing you who’s safe and who’s not. Who respects your sovereignty and who requires you to be compliant. Pay attention.
And practise now. Practise saying no. Practise redirecting. Practise not explaining yourself when you don’t want to.
Your birth will thank you 💛
How are you practising boundaries this festive season? 👇