HER C-SECTION IS ‘HOLY GROUND’

Nicole Welch, 40, said when she was pregnant, her body felt foreign to her. After her babies were born it took her time to settle into her “new” body. Once she did, she started owning her motherhood in a way that made her feel empowered. She was vocal about needing to pump at work, even scheduling it in a public calendar. She attributes changes that came with motherhood to catapulting her career. She stopped caring about what others might think and went all in on things she thought worked best. She lost her mother while pregnant with her second baby, Gracie, who spent six weeks in the NICU. These life-and-death experiences recalibrated for Nicole what’s worth stressing about. Now she looks at her C-section scar and sees holy ground because that is where her baby entered this world.