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Pregnancy, childbirth and the six-week postpartum period really take a toll on a woman’s body. And what if you give birth to triplets? Even though it’s natural, the body obviously isn’t so well prepared for such an ordeal.
Pregnancy is, for every expectant mother, spiritually beautiful, but physically usually quite demanding.
Even though the female body is made for childbirth, there are exceptions where nature comes up a little short.
Maria Jørstad from Norway could tell you about that. Instead she decided to show on Instagram, without beating around the bush, what the reality is. When she found out she was expecting triplets, she began to take regular photos and uploaded them to her profile.
By the end of the pregnancy it was already visible that the skin on her belly was unnaturally stretched and the strain of three little bodies was barely being managed.
It’s no wonder, then, that even a month after the birth was not enough for her body to recover as quickly as when she gave birth to her first child a few years earlier. In a very daring photo she decided to show what happened to her belly after three children. And it’s quite something…
