My postpartum mom bod

This is the body that has stretched and grown for two wonderful babies. The same body that has nourished them.

The same body that lifts, runs, bikes, skis, dances and climbs.💪🏽💃🏽

The same body that smiles, laughs, cries, hugs, holds, guides, helps, teaches, learns, supports, celebrates and loves.♥️

The same body that I am growing to love and be proud of. Stretch marks, diastasis recti, umbilical hernia, fat, loose skin, and all.

If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be sharing a picture of my belly for everyone to see, I would NOT have believed it. I don't even know if I'm comfortable with sharing it today. But I'm pushing aside my ego and pride and doing it anyway, because I want you to know that your body is normal. It's more than normal. It's amazing!

Society's f**ked up expectations, media portrayal and diet culture make us feel like there is something wrong with us when there isn't. That we are only what we look like.

I am so over that!

We aren't born ashamed of our bodies. So why has every mother raised in this society made to feel shame about her body?

Can we normalize the normal instead of normalizing the rare few who appear to "bounce back"?

Can we take the pressure off ourselves to look like we did when we were half our age?

Can we just let mothers be happy and proud?