The phrase ‘bouncing back’ has become a ubiquitous, colloquial term applied to postpartum women’s bodies, and often refers to an association with the sociological processes underpinning the lived experience of maternal embodiment. However, the postpartum body is simultaneously biological and social, and thus ‘bouncing back’ should also be constructed as a physiological end state of the return of a pre-pregnancy body, however it rarely is referenced in this way. Following Thorpe (2014), this presentation therefore seeks to examine the ‘inseparability’ of the biological and social postpartum body in and through maternal lived experience. This presentation is based on data collected from the Postpartum Behavioral Observation of Diet, Image, and Exercise Study (BODIES). Specifically, we draw on 128 in-depth semi-structured interviews with 32 mothers at three, six, nine, and 12 months postpartum, to offer a nuanced perspective regarding the ways in which the constructs of body and health are intertwined during the months following childbirth. Accordingly we argue that the conceptualization of ‘bouncing back’ should be re-articulated to capture the multi-faceted, complicated, embodied processes occurring in the postpartum period, and thus our analysis makes a contribution to the study of women’s bodies, motherhood, and health.