Photo: Life After Birth
The three companies sought out submissions from women that depicted life postpartum and received hundreds of submissions, eventually selecting more than 250 photos from women including celebrities like Christy Turlington Burns and Amy Schumer (who has already beendoing her part to demystify the postpartum experience), theKnixandCarriage House foundersthemselves, as well women fromall over the country,in the militaryand more. In addition to sharing their intimate and revealing photos, depicting everything from birth to breastfeeding, recovering bodies to raw emotion, these moms also shared extremely personal insights into their pregnancies and the weeks post-birth, all in the interest of celebrating and normalizing postpartum life.
Courtesy Christy Turlington.
Life After Birth
For their maternity launch, Knix also photographed moms-to-be and new moms breastfeeding, showing off C-section scars and more.
Mom of twins Lori Yerry shares photos of her body after having twins – as well asshots of her breastfeeding them both. ““Do I like my postpartum body? Not particularly, but I am so proud of it. That it was able to carry twins to term and now it provides what they need,” she writes. I have been able to continuously nourish two humans with this stretched, saggy, and scarred body of mine, since conception. And for that, I love my postpartum body.”
A recent mom helps normalize breastfeeding.
source: people.com
