Mum shares stunning photo of her post-partum body 24 hours after birth
A mum has shared an incredible image of her post-partum body just 24 hours after giving birth – and we’re SO glad she did! What a stunning, empowering, raw image of motherhood.
Mum-of-five Erica Andrews posted the image on the Sakura Bloom baby sling Facebook page, and accompanied it with some beautiful, poetic words that we reckon perfectly capture the emotions we feel after giving birth.
“This is what 24 hours postpartum looks like,” she wrote. “Baby in sling. Skin to skin. Adult diapers. And a rosy glow.
“My body feels like it ran a marathon and my heart is wide open from yesterday's travels. Birth opens us like an earthquake opens the earth and I am still in the intimate, fragile throes of that opening. I feel raw. Emotional. Different. I feel like I'm on the undulating surface of the rippling ocean being tossed back and forth between happiness, gratitude, melancholy, and grief.
“23 hours ago I held life within and 24 hours ago I surged and transformed allowing life to flow through me, into my waiting hands. The emptiness in my womb brings a heavy feeling crashing into reality but then this new little life whimpers, searching for the breast with soft rooting, and I feel whole again.
“I am still processing the beautiful transition my whole family has travelled through and I am in complete awe of our strength as humans, women, and mothers.”
"This is what 24 hours postpartum looks like. Baby in sling. Skin to skin. Adult diapers. And a rosy glow. My body feels…
Posted by Sakura Bloom on Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Wow, she said it better than we ever could!
As far as we’re concerned this photo is a million times more beautiful than the airbrushed, hair-coiffed, made-up representation of women in the media. What an AMAZING message about the beauty of motherhood.