C-Section Scar Photo Goes Viral

A powerful photo of a naked mother’s C-section wound has gone viral “” and for all the wrong reasons.

The photo, posted on Facebook by professional British photographer Helen Aller, shows the anonymous woman’s three-day-old baby resting on her legs below the fresh scar across the base of her belly.

It’s raw, real and quite beautiful. It shows just what it looks like when babies are born via C-section.

Now shared more than 56,000 times, it seems the photo touched a nerve with the internet trolls who have taken this mother’s moment and slammed it as “offensive”, “disgusting” and “sexually explicit”, reporting the photo to the Facebook powers-that-be as being against the “nudity clause”.

In one of the comments, a woman even wrote how she wouldn’t let her child near her genitalia, which was soon replied with, “Really, did the stork bring yours?”

It hasn’t all been negative though, with many women praising this photo as genuine and powerful.

The photographer, Helen, who is eight months pregnant, told the Daily Mail the woman in the photograph, who has chosen to stay anonymous, asked her to take the photo following the birth.

“I photographed this mama’s pregnancy a couple of weeks back and she was telling me how terrified she was of having a c-section,” she said.

“Over the weekend she went into labour but had to have an emergency c-section after losing a lot of blood.

“She asked me to come over this morning and shoot this particular image as her worst nightmare proved to be what saved her and her son’s lives.

“For her I think [the picture] was more about facing her fear.”

With the photo now reaching up to 12 million views and likes above 200,000, Helen said she was shocked with how far the photo had travelled from her humble Facebook page.

She said out of all the picture she could have chosen to post on social media, she chose the one with the C-section wound because it was the most powerful.

“It showed more about those women who’ve had caesareans who can relate to each other,” she said.

“So many said they felt like they’d failed. I looked at that picture and felt completely different. I didn’t realise there was such a stigma.”