WHY R U SHOUTING AT ME

Posting in solidarity with all the other lovely ladies keeping it real in the comments. No makeup? Check. Bags under my eyes that had only just begun? Check. Red splotch because I had managed to burst blood vessels under my eye while pushing? Yep!

This is such a lovely picture! Congratulations!

Hubby was so giddy he forgot to hand my our daughter.

Lovelovelove!

Theres a photo of me about..3 hours or so after giving birth: My husband is lovingly holding our son. I’m in the background, looking on from the hospital bed with a box of Cheez-Its in my hand and a mouth full of Oreos.

Here are some ideas for that post-birth photoshop pic to to get you started: shark jumping at baby & other photoshop ideas

My eldest daughter was born about 1:15am, this is us shortly after. Hers was a great birth and I felt like I had just kicked all sorts of ass. :)

I may get crucified for putting this out there because there is a lot of hate/shame surrounding birth, but this is why I love birth photography. I have friends who are birth photographers and it never ceases to amaze me the gorgeous shots they capture that are 100% real. There are sweaty photos and sweet photos,…

Just a friendly reminder that this post exists and should never be forgotten: http://jezebel.com/5833709/how-i-…

I threw the bouquet, but I scandalised one side of the family by making it equal opportunities. Everyone was welcome to get involved, regardless of gender or marital status, because fuck all the nonsense about being the next person to marry, I just wanted someone to have my pretty flowers. (Equally, anyone who didn’t…

I got married on April 19, and I didn’t toss my bouquet at my wedding. We held it in New Orleans, and the day after the wedding my husband and I went down to bank of the Mississippi River, made a wish, and threw the bouquet in there. I find garter tosses and bouquet tosses to be suuuuuuuper creepy.

That’s cute - we had no gendered requirements for the bouquet toss (and didn’t do a garter toss). My 8-year-old nephew caught the flowers and then let my crying niece have them because he’s a kind big-brother.

What a wonderful idea, good on you.

Dude. SO stealing this!

Can I retroactively pretend to be your friend and one of your bridesmaids? That is amazing!!!

Oh my god.

I so wish I would have read this before we got married. That is AMAZING.

That is brilliant.

I wish I attended your wedding! If I ever get hitched, I’m stealing it.

If they insist on a re-make, at least get Curry for the Criminologist.