Husband takes unattractive photo of drained wife asleep breastfeeding twins that gets people talking
Did her husband get approval from her before taking this photo of her breastfeeding her twins at the same time?
No. She was asleep, how can he?
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But Amy Griffith, mom of four and wife of one, had a great appreciation for this photo.
It showed her just how resilient a woman’s body can be.
When Amy found out they were having twins, she was getting her ultrasound with her toddler daughter by her side. Her husband wasn’t with her at that time and two thoughts came into mind.
One, her husband was going to flip! And two, how was it going to work? How can her body handle two babies at the same time?
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It was barely going to be an easy journey for Amy, her husband, and their two children.
But they were ready to take on the challenge.
“I had to focus on the positive, on what I could do that day. Sometimes it was walking, other days it was a few modified yoga poses. Almost every day, what I could do was rest… I was forced to slow down, to be gentle with myself. I had no other choice. As much as I resisted it initially, I’ve come to learn that there is great wisdom in slowing down. Now I recognize how good it feels and I welcome this slower pace regularly,” Amy shared on Love What Matters.
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Amy would soon learn so many new lessons from her pregnancy with twins.
Her first two pregnancies, both home births, taught her to release fear and ride the wave. She learned to breathe and trust her body and find her voice.
“It was an incredible experience. I’m not saying it was easy, but I felt so safe and supported by my team, comfortable in my own home and completely surrendered to the power of my body as I freakin’ birthed my baby while standing beside the bed,” Amy described.
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The twins’ pregnancy was very different.
First of all, it was not a home birth and the twins were delivered differently. One baby was delivered vaginally and the other baby was delivered via cesarean section. But Amy still applied the lessons she learned from her earlier pregnancies with the twins’ birth.
“I had to use my voice to advocate for myself and my babies with confidence as I reminded the medical staff, ‘I trust my body. I trust my babies. We deserve the right to labor,'” Amy said. “Birth is so intuitive and I felt in my bones, I needed to try and labor on my own. My twin birth was a story of strength that I didn’t know I had.”
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And this story of strength continued even after birth.
Their birth only forced Amy to ask the next question, how can she produce enough milk for two babies?
Amy was also recovering from two different types of birth delivery and her body was exhausted. One thing is for sure though, she was 1000% committed to breastfeeding her twin boys. There were times when it was an intoxicating and heavenly experience for all of them. And there were times when she was depleted.
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But the bond the three of them developed through breastfeeding could not be replaced.
That was why when her husband captured this breastfeeding moment between the three of them, she couldn’t help but be in awe and proud of her body.
Her breastfeeding journey with the twins lasted for 28 months and she still surprises herself with how they all managed it.
Most of all, she remembered all the proud moments they had together. Her favorite was still the moment the twins held hands for the first time while breastfeeding.
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It’s hard to adjust to a family of six people but they’ll make it work one step at a time.
They know it won’t be easy but they’re still going to do it.
“Here’s to trusting in the unknown journey of motherhood as we work to understand all the ‘How’s?’ Arms and hearts wide open to receive,” Amy wrote. “We’re in this together. We can do this.”
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