#NormalisingBreastfeeding Instagram Trend Inspired By Nicole Trunfio's Breastfeeding Elle Cover

It's Not Only Nicole Trunfio Who Is #NormalisingBreastfeeding
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When Nicole Trunfio was pictured on Elle Australia's cover breastfeeding her newborn son, she said she wanted to normalise breastfeeding.

And it seems mothers have latched on to the trend, posting photos in their thousands sharing precious moments with their newborns, using the hashtag, #normalisingbreastfeeding like Trunfio did.

Trunfio shared the photo below of her Elle Australia magazine cover on Instagram earlier this week along with the caption:

"The last thing I want to do is be controversial, so please take this for what it is, let us #normalizebreastfeeding there is nothing worse than a mother that is judged for feeding her hungry child in public.

"#weareonlyhuman I'm so proud of this cover and for what it's stands for. I obviously don't look like this while I am breastfeeding but this stands."

This image inspired an influx of mum's sharing photos in which they're breastfeeding their babies.

This mum does a similar pose to Trunfio by standing up and pulling up her shirt.

Rather than starting a trend, Trunfio appears to have just given a pre-existing #brelfie movement a boost, as many mums used hashtags similar to #normalisingbreasfeeding on Instagram before she shared her magazine cover snap.

This mother posted the snap two weeks ago on Mother's Day of her precious moment.

While this mum decided to post her photo while out on a walk earlier this month.

It seems the #normalisingbreastfeeding trend is seriously taking off...

Breastfeeding Photos
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Ashlee Wells Jacksons' "4th Trimester Bodies Project" embraces the changes brought to women’s bodies by motherhood. Above, is a photo of herself and her baby.

Says Jackson: "I see beautiful, inspiring, real women on a daily basis who struggle with their body image because they don’t feel they measure up with who the media tells them to be... So much more needs to be done in our society to embrace body positivity and normalize breastfeeding."
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In the September 2014 issue of Glamour magazine, actress Olivia Wilde said: "Breastfeeding is the most natural thing. I don’t know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast."
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Photographer Jade Beall takes portraits, like this one, that celebrate moms' bodies for her project, "A Beautiful Body."
via A Beautiful Body Book Project
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In 2012, singer P!nk shared this gorgeous photo of herself nursing baby Willow Sage on Instagram and Twitter. (credit:Pink/Instagram)
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In 2014, singer Gwen Stefani posted a beautiful Instagram photo of herself feeding her son Apollo in Switzerland. (credit:Gwen Stefani/Instagram)
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Russian model Natalia Vodianova debuted her son Maxim to the world with this stunning breastfeeding photo in June 2014. (credit:Natalia Vodianova/Instagram)
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This photo is from Vanessa Simmons' Normalize Breastfeeding campaign. Says Simmons: "If [women] read other stories, then it becomes more normal like, 'Oh, I'm going through that exact same thing.' Or, 'My baby's screaming their head off at six weeks and I can't figure out why,'... Sharing those stories enables women to be able to connect." Read more about Normalize Breastfeeding here.
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This photo is from Leilani Rogers' Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project. Read more about it here.
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This image is also from Leilani Rogers' Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project. Read more about it here.
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This picture is from HuffPost blogger Jillayna Adamson' "Breastfeeding is Beautiful" series. See more images, and read about it here.
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HuffPost blogger Jamie Davis Smith wrote about her difficulty breastfeeding her first child, and what the experience was like. Read her blog post here.
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In a blog post where this image was featured, author Mama Bean writes, "We are continually sold The Ideal; the picture-perfect, fully-clothed, fully made-up portrait of Motherhood... And yet in the real world, motherhood takes a far more literal shape; a far more physical form. It may well be slim, trim and toned... just as it may be rounded, softened and stretched. And yet, this second and more common reality is hidden and censored by default, as if motherhood is somehow something to shelter from."

Read the full post here.
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