⁣Because the postpartum bump is JUST as important as the baby bump. PERIOD.⠀ 🤰🏽⠀ Shout out to #meghanmarkle for selecting a dress that keeps it 💯. This is how Matrescense needs to be celebrated, with honour for both our being AND our body in ALL its glory. ⠀ 👸🏿⠀ Despite what Instagram shows us, A LOT of us "still look pregnant" AFTER we've had our baby. I definitely did. Had I not known it was common and a part of the #fourthtrimester I would have had a much harder time (shout out to my doula). ⠀ 🤱🏻⠀ Although the comments came from an innocent, uneducated place (I was the first amongst my friends to have a baby) - they still stung. I do remember people asking me if I had the baby why does my tummy look like that, did I lose any weight when she came out etc...⠀ 🤔 ⠀ This further highlights the necessity for normalization and why we founded maternal_goddess. Having a baby subjects women to so many forms of judgment on how we look, birth and mother, it's actually shocking how unh...