‘The pressure to get your old body back is immense’: the new mothers driven to weight-loss jabs

The NHS warns against using GLP-1s while breastfeeding - for the baby's sake as well as the mother's. But how much does that count when they're so readily available and there's so much pressure to bounce back'?

Lydia* first started thinking about weight-loss drugs during pregnancy. Everyone was talking about them and the advertisements were everywhere," she says, as her baby son naps upstairs. I remember thinking: That's how I'll lose weight for my wedding next year.'"

When Lydia explains that most of her life before pregnancy was spent in a welter of yo-yo dieting and body dissatisfaction, I say to her that I think most of us can relate. Her pregnancy, however, brought a level of body acceptance and contentment that the 33-year-old from Wales had never had before.