--- description: Weird and wonderful facts about being a mom title: This Is Your Body On Motherhood image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Is Your Body on Motherhood by [Heather Jones](/author/heather-jones/) ## Heather Jones Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 9, 2014 3:00 PM CUT by [Heather Jones](/author/heather-jones/) ## Heather Jones Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 9, 2014 3:00 PM CUT Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and we’ve illustrated the many reasons moms are well worth celebrating. Hover over the image below to zoom in. [](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/motherhood-l.jpg "undefined")Text by Emily Maltby and Alexandra Sifferlin ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/93927/this-is-your-body-on-motherhood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/93927/this-is-your-body-on-motherhood/"},"headline":"This Is Your Body on Motherhood","datePublished":"2014-05-09T15:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:16.027Z","description":"Weird and wonderful facts about being a mom","url":"https://time.com/93927/this-is-your-body-on-motherhood/","keywords":["Living"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Heather Jones","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/heather-jones/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/93927/this-is-your-body-on-motherhood/","name":"This Is Your Body on Motherhood"}}]}] ```