Giving birth to a new life is such a wonderful thing idealized almost always to overshadow the large number of complications that each pregnancy entails.
In fact, in addition to the beautiful baby bump, motherhood involves a myriad of drastic changes for the female body, sometimes not very pleasant.
Here Alexandra Kilmurray, a mother like many, wanted to share the post-partum reality, with all its facetsand (the love of a baby, but also a real physical metamorphosis, such as stretch marks):
15 PHOTOSBefore and after childbirth: 15 photos of mothers that leave you breathless
go to the galleryA woman's body undergoes a wonderful and very natural transformation with pregnancy. Here are fifteen beautiful photos from the web of women photographed before and after giving birth ... with children at ...
"I know that many of you are probably wondering 'why did he need to publish this image'" - he writes in the description of the photo - but it took 18 months to get here, 18 months not to cry looking in the mirror, 18 months to finally feel beautiful in my skin again!
Nobody warns you of the dark sides of motherhood and pregnancy, no one tells you face to face how many changes you will have to face physically and mentally after becoming a mother. For me the post-partum ride was long and difficult.
Eighteen months after my first child and 5 months after my second I finally seem to be seeing the light again and this genuinely makes me feel extraordinary. I cheer on the moms who are battling postpartum depression and who keep getting up every day for their children!
Hurray you moms that you are crying from the marks on your skin due to the birth of your perfect children!
Long live motherhood, I rejoice knowing this will pass.
And things will get better "
Read also: how to prevent stretch marks in pregnancy
A photo posted by Alexandra Kilmurray (@alexandrabrea_) on Jan 12, 2022 at 14:59 pm PST
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The photo of the mother offended by the stretch marks on her stomach
go to the gallery33 years old, Canadian and with 5 children. Tanis Jex Blex traveled to a beach in Alberta, Canada with two of her children. In a bikini, she was teased by three ...
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