Giving birth is a miracle and especially when it’s a multiple pregnancy.
In 2018, Michella Meier-Morsi and her husband Mark welcomed twin girls after a year of IVF treatments.
They were delivered via cesarean section when Michella was thirty seven weeks and were ready to go home after six days in intensive care.
Michella was constantly worried if her girls would be healthy while pregnant. ”When we got the news that we were expecting twins, I was extremely happy, and at the same time, paralyzed by fear. I was simply so scared of losing them. I read statistics, horrible posts on twin groups about respirators and losses, and I refused to buy anything for the girls,” she posted on Instagram in 2020.
Michelle’s pregnancy wasn’t easy as he had a huge belly which often turned black and with bruises because her babies were big.
”My pregnancy was awful and my body is carrying around permanent evidence of it. Filippa and Ophelia, on the other hand, have been absolutely fantastic, and we have made the finest family rhythm with them,” she wrote.
Following the birth, she had another surgery as her abdomen muscles were split, a condition known as diastasis recti.
New mothers are reluctant to discuss the changes in their body after giving birth. However, Michella wanted to share her story so other moms would know they are not alone.
In 2021, Michella fell pregnant again but nothing could prepare her when doctor’s told her she was carrying three babies.
”When the midwife moves the scanner, we see a third black box. It’s like everything stops. We hear a third heartbeat. It’s getting completely quiet in that room, and I’m starting to cry. I can’t stop shaking and crying” she told the Danish magazine Expressen.
Michella wrote this on Instagram three days before giving birth: ”I seriously do not feel ready for three babies.
”I naively thought that I would get ready at some point – that I would feel a joy that the pregnancy is coming to an end and that we should finally meet our trio. But if it were not for the extreme pain, the triplets would have to stay in the stomach for a month or three more. It all just feels so overwhelming.”
In January 2022, Charles, Theodore, and Gabriel were born. Michella only get four hours to sleep each day now that she has five children to look after.
”It is indescribably hard to have two three-year-olds and three premature babies. Much harder than I had imagined. [My daughters] are angry, defiant, enormously bored, and simply unruly and rude.They miss us and definitely feel let down to some degree. And it’s completely understandable,” she writes on her Instagram.
In Denmark, women don’t get much attention in relation to their health after having children. She feels this need to change and is working with a psychotherapist and hoping for a better future.
Her frankness attracts a lot of people’s attention and she currently has around 300k followers on Instagram where she is brutally honest about all the challenges parenthood brings.
