Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany.
Eat Weight Disord. 2022 Oct;27(7):2435-2445. doi: 10.1007/s40519-022-01381-y. Epub 2022 Mar 3.
Social media enlarge the impact of health and fitness trends on body image and lifestyle choices, also in birthing parents. A new and yet to investigate social media trend addressing expectant mothers is "Belly Only Pregnancy". This qualitative study sought to define this new trend and clarify whether content related to this trend might disrupt body image or eating habits in expectant mothers.
Picture and text data were gathered on a key day by screening Instagram and blog posts including or linking #bellyonlypregnancy. The identified data were categorized applying qualitative content analysis using MAXQDA software version 2018.
Three hundred and fifty-one Instagram and eight blog posts were included. Our qualitative analysis' results indicated that the term "Belly Only Pregnancy" was used for describing: (1) The phenotype of an athletic woman whose abdominal size enlarges during pregnancy while not gaining excessive fat tissue. (2) An active lifestyle during pregnancy consisting of healthy nutrition and regular exercise pursuing goals like fast weight loss post-partum. Also, bodily, and mental gestational changes and the feasibility of this lifestyle were discussed.
A "Belly Only Pregnancy" allegorizes an ideal body type for expecting mothers. Especially women with increased vulnerability for an eating disorder might be negatively affected by the consumption of content linked to this trend. However, the positive effects of a healthy diet and exercise should not be denied keeping into account the increasing prevalence of obesity and gestational diabetes.
Level III: Evidence obtained from cohort or case-control analytic studies.
社交媒体扩大了健康和健身趋势对身体形象和生活方式选择的影响，也包括在产妇身上。一种新的、尚未被调查的社交媒体趋势是“只展示腹部的怀孕”。这项定性研究旨在定义这一新趋势，并澄清与这一趋势相关的内容是否会扰乱孕妇的身体形象或饮食习惯。
通过在关键日筛选包括或链接#bellyonlypregnancy 的 Instagram 和博客文章，收集图片和文字数据。使用 MAXQDA 软件版本 2018 对所识别的数据进行分类，采用定性内容分析。
共纳入 351 张 Instagram 图片和 8 篇博客文章。我们的定性分析结果表明，“只展示腹部的怀孕”一词用于描述：（1）一种运动员型女性的表型，其腹部在怀孕期间增大，而不会增加过多的脂肪组织。（2）一种在怀孕期间保持活跃的生活方式，包括健康的营养和定期的运动，追求产后快速减肥等目标。此外，还讨论了身体和精神上的妊娠期变化以及这种生活方式的可行性。
“只展示腹部的怀孕”是对孕妇理想体型的一种比喻。特别是那些容易出现饮食失调的女性，可能会因接触到与这一趋势相关的内容而受到负面影响。然而，考虑到肥胖和妊娠期糖尿病的患病率不断增加，不应否认健康饮食和运动的积极影响。
三级：来源于队列或病例对照分析研究的证据。
