Soft tummy aesthetic

I had this vision of photographing a postpartum woman a couple of years ago. I find it paradoxical—the body that’s so celebrated while carrying, yet so often wished away after delivery. Understandably so, but it feels like it should be honored and embraced. It is the body that grows, carries, nourishes, holds, and delivers the precious life that God purposely and wonderfully knits together inside a mother’s womb. So I decided to have my own postpartum body documented—the stretch marks, the…