Mom Goes Viral After Posting Intimate Moment With Her Sick Child

Eden Clougher knows motherhood is not the picture perfect fantasy we often see on Instagram. Instead, motherhood is difficult, uncertain, and sometimes terrifying.

So when Eden had a moment with her one-year-old, she debated whether or not she should share the photo online.

The moment happened when Eden’s daughter had an allergic reaction. Eden frantically jumped in the shower and poured cold water on them until her daughter stopped screaming.

This photo was the result of that beautiful moment:

Clougher admits that she had debated whether to post the photo for several weeks, but ultimately decided to post it to show what parenting really looks like, beneath the glossy social media facet.

She writes on Facebook:

So, I’ve been debating over the last few weeks about posting this photo…

This is what parenting looks like…
3.30am sessions in the shower because she reacted to an allergen and screamed all night. It looks like love and devotion, and exhaustion and relief. It looks like stretch marks, and prickly legs, and raw desperation. There is beauty here… The beauty of silence… The hot water and skin to skin won. I needed it to win; I was out of options.
I needed this photo. I needed to freeze this moment so that I can look back and remember the vulnerability and art that is parenting. The delicate balance between genius, and insanity.

Clougher tells The Daily Mail Australia that she not only posted the photo for herself, but for other moms as well. She explains:

“I feel like everyone in my generation now has made motherhood into a competitive sport. You’re either a tiger mum or you’re super involved in sport or you don’t have screen time. It isolates people because they’re not a perfect mother. But I’m not self-conscious of the mother that I am.”

To Clougher, the photo shows vulnerability, and in her opinion, that vulnerability is okay.

 What do you make of this beautiful moment shared between mother and daughter? Is this something Eden should have shared online or should she have kept the moment private? Tell us your thoughts and please SHARE with friends and family.

[Featured Image: Eden Clougher via Facebook]

Mom Goes Viral After Posting Intimate Moment With Her Sick Child is an article from: LifeDaily