“Lucky is getting the opportunity to carry a child within you,” Martinez, 24, captioned an Instagram photo Tuesday, which shows her breastfeeding hernewborn daughter Ruthie Ray.
“My face is swollen, I’m wearing a diaper, and my belly hands over my sweats,” Martinez wrote.
“I am truly lucky.”
Martinez’s raw message comes just a few days after the formerBachelorcontestant shared a mirror selfie of herself posingin postpartum mesh underwear.
“So amazing what we can do,” Martinez wrote over the snapshot posted to her Instagram Stories.
“I’ve never felt so much respect and love for my body, diaper and all,” Martinez added, writing the hashtag “#ThisIsPostPartum.”
Bekah Martinez.Bekah Martinez/Instagram
Bekah Martinez and Ruthie Ray.
Bekah Martinez and Grayston Leonard.Bekah Martinez/Instagram
Martinezwelcomedher bundle of joy on Feb. 2 via water birth at the Natural Birth Center in Los Angeles.
Martinezannounced her pregnancyin October, revealing that she learned that she was pregnant three months into her relationship with boyfriendGrayston Leonard.
Martinezbroke the newsto Leonard on Father’s Day. She told PureWow, “I was crying … and said, ‘You’re going to be a dad!’ We hugged, and it was the first time we really got to be overjoyed. We were finally able to celebrate and soak up all of that emotion.”
Since Ruthie Ray’s arrival, Martinez has shared a number of photos of the infant.
As she peacefully sleeps with one leg dangled over the side, the newborn is dressed in an adorable bear costume, complete with a hood and ears. “I simply couldn’t resist,” Martinezadmitted in the caption.
source: people.com
