Tired but happy, special. With a belly, disposable panties, disheveled and without separating from the baby, this is what most mothers who have just given birth look like, so it is a bit incomprehensible that photographs like this still surprise people. Unless what we have in mind is the image of the "magazine mothers" that come out perfect after having a baby, incredible body models or others prepared for the report with their best galas and probably with a good dose of Photoshop.
But it is so, recent moms have a belly and what the woman in the picture is wearing are adult diapers or they could be disposable panties, which is the best invention not to spoil the cloth panties with the "escapes" of the loquios , so abundant those first days after delivery.
Luckily, more and more women dare to show their real bodies after giving birth, without Photoshop, without obsession to recover the figure in a week, transmitting normality (and beauty! Why not?) With those bellies and stretch marks.
That is why I liked the image of this mother to share it with you, because it transmits normality, beauty and tenderness with her baby to the breast, skin to skin. She is Erica Andrews, from Ohio, who took this "selfie" 24 hours after giving birth to her fifth child, Silas Ambrose Osler, on January 8.
He shared the image on Instagram with a powerful message about motherhood and precisely wanting to make visible that "fourth quarter". It reached more than two thousand "likes" and soon the image went viral when shared on other networks with equal success, especially in the profile of a baby carrier foulars store, with more than 161 thousand "likes".
I leave you with a summary of the mother's words because Surely many of you feel identified not only with your image but also with your feelings in this unrepeatable moment in which fatigue is mixed with happiness.
This is what the postpartum looks like at 24 hours. The hanging baby. Skin to skin Diapers for adults. And a pink glow. My body feels as if I had run a marathon ... Birth opens us like an earthquake opens the earth and I am still in the intimate and fragile tremors of that opening. I feel pure Emotional. Different. I feel as if I am on the undulating surface of the sea being rocked back and forth between happiness, gratitude, melancholy and sadness. 25 hours ago I held life inside and 24 hours ago I stirred and transformed allowing life to flow through me, to my expectant hands. The emptiness in my belly brings a feeling of heaviness crashing into reality, but then these new little groans of life, looking for the chest with soft rooting, make me feel whole again ... I am completely admired of our strength as human beings, women and mothers This moment is simply unlike any other.
