Any mom who recalls the disposable underpants they had to wear after giving birth will certainly relate to a selfie snapped by Erica Andrews, who took a selfie in "adult diapers" just 24 hours after giving birth to her fifth child.

The Ohio-based midwife shared the photo — which also shows her breastfeeding her newborn son Silas in a sling — with the Facebook page of baby sling company Sakura Bloom [1] on Tuesday, and it's garnered more than 127,000 "likes" and 33,000 shares.

Why? Because she honestly and eloquently says what we've all thought that first day after welcoming a new baby into the world: "my body feels like it ran a marathon."

Her encouraging words didn't end there. Here's her entire post:

This is what 24 hours postpartum looks like. Baby in sling. Skin to skin. Adult diapers. And a rosy glow. My body feels like it ran a marathon and my heart is wide open from yesterday's travels. Birth opens us like an earthquake opens the earth and I am still in the intimate, fragile throes of that opening. I feel raw. Emotional. Different. I feel like I'm on the undulating surface of the rippling ocean being tossed back and forth between happiness, gratitude, melancholy, and grief. 23 hours ago I held life within and 24 hours ago I surged and transformed allowing life to flow through me, into my waiting hands. The emptiness in my womb brings a heavy feeling crashing into reality but then this new little life whimpers, searching for the breast with soft rooting, and I feel whole again. I am still processing the beautiful transition my whole family has traveled through and I am in complete awe of our strength as humans, women, and mothers. This time is simply unlike any other.