Mum Shares 24-hour Postpartum Body with Heartwarming Note

Erica Andrews, a mother of five, posted this image on Facebook, posing without make-up, naked from the waist up, her newborn in a sling across her chest. It is starkly real and arresting.

She wrote on the Facebook page of Sakura Bloom (the company that made the sling),

“This is what 24 hours postpartum looks like, 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.

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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.

I am still processing the beautiful transition my whole family has traveled through and I am in complete awe of our strength as humans, women, and mothers. This time is simply unlike any other.”