Mum shared post baby image just hours after giving birth – describing how she is no longer ‘ashamed’ of how her body looks.
Elise Raquel, from west Australia, posted the picture of herself in her ‘rawest and most vulnerable state’, after welcoming baby daughter Willa into the world.
She explained how it’s ‘a strange feeling to look down and still see a bump’ despite ‘holding your baby in your arms’.
Describing how she had felt the need to cover up after her previous births, Elise says she is now ‘proud’ of her body, calling on other women to also celebrate their post-pregnancy bodies.
“I used to feel the need to cover up in this newborn stage, I didn’t want to see my body in this state, so why would anyone else?
It’s taken me three babies, but I’ve finally realised this postpartum body isn’t something to hide! I am beyond proud for what this body has given and sacralised.
I am thankful that my body is able to carry and birth babies naturally. I am NOT ashamed of my (many) new stripes and my postpartum body. And neither should you!
Let’s celebrate postpartum bodies, in all their glory. The female body is incredible and I am so proud of what mine has done!”
Remember when Alyce, showed us how amazing real women look after birth, when Melissa Jean Photography captured her one hour after giving birth to her son.
Another fed up mum shared an image showing “This is a normal postpartum body”.
She explained that ‘We give up our bodies to create our children, our bodies change and gain perfect imperfections that we should be celebrating, not shaming.’
Saying, ‘We see pictures of fitness models snapping back from a pregnancy. But how many of us are fitness models?
‘It makes women think our bodies are not okay or not normal when they are.”
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– New mum shares “This is a normal postpartum body”
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