Pregnancy is a beautiful time in a woman’s life—but let’s face it, some of the side effects are less than pretty.
Line Severinsen, an illustrator from Norway, is bridging this representational gap, one cartoon at a time on her website Kos og Kaos, which translates as Cuddles and Chaos. This mom has garnered a lot of attention for her hilariously real comics of what pregnancy and motherhood look like in their unfiltered moments. The illustrations are witty, well done and attention-grabbing—but more than anything else, they’re true to life. Severinsen told Buzzfeed of her inspiration for the comic series.
“I started this cartoon as a personal diary in 2012, when I was pregnant for the first time with my daughter. I was feeling sick and tired all through my first trimester, while all I saw online and in magazines were these picture-perfect, happy, pregnant super-women. I thought to myself that there is no way that no other woman felt and looked like I did. So I wanted to help them understand that they weren’t alone, and that it is okay to feel and act less than perfect sometimes.”
Keep scrolling to see her all-too-real illustrations of pregnancy:
1. Trying to lose the baby fat!
2. The art of multitasking!
3. Goodbye to my thick, beautiful pregnancy hair!
4. Crazy pregnancy hormones!
5. The only way I can get the baby to sleep!
6. I don’t want to play with my boring toys, I want your cell phone!
7. This always happens when I’m about to leave the house!
8. There is no such thing as too much chocolate!
9. Where is the baby?
10. Oops! I shrunk the wool.. Again!
11. What might happen if you drop your kegel exercises after birth?
12. After birth once milk production started, my boobs will look like a watermelon!
13. Co-sleeping. The only way “we” can get enough sleep!
14. Dads also try their best!
15. That feeling, when you have problems breastfeeding, and the nurses try to “help” you!
16. Oh those lovely pregnancy hormones!
17. Pregnancy cramps in the middle of the night!
18. Live birth with a selfiestick!
19. Breastfeeding in public is not really a problem!
20. Fears about giving birth: water breaking in public!
21. Can’t see below the belly!
22. What not to say to a pregnant woman!
23. Expecting a kickboxer!
24. Princess on the pea, sleep deprivation. More pillows please!
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