Have just logged on for the first time in a week or so, & found I've been tagged by various lovely ladies for #20beautifulwomenchallenge ~ my little girl is now two weeks old & thriving - she's alert, content & growing rapidly! I'm slowly recovering, since I ended up having a rather traumatic end of labour resulting in an emergency c-section, it's taking time to heal... I look in the mirror now and see a fresh scar across my middle, a little pink squiggle of a stretch mark on my belly from a tiny foot kicking me from the inside on her final week within me, a new deep furrow in my brow embedded forever during my 36 hours of labour, dark circles beneath my eyes, I'm without a shred of make up and with knotted hair, but I really & truly feel more beautiful than ever and am proud of my battle scars; they are evidence of the strength I found that I didn't know existed & tell a story of the arrival of the most precious gift that life could give. Motherhood definitely changes our perception of beauty! Thank you to all who tagged me... Share the love if you've been tagged! 💗 #motherhood #beauty #postpartum #postnatal #twoweekspostpartum