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Findlay said she first started writing about her thoughts on motherhood four years ago after the birth of her first child left her \"in a really bad place.\" She said she was experiencing life changes she hadn't expected and needed a way to cope and process everything she was going through.

\"I had an Instagram account pre-motherhood and it was mainly just pictures of me and my dog and I just had a couple hundred people following me,\" Findlay explained. \"And then I had my baby girl in 2018 and it was quite a rough pregnancy and then I had quite a traumatic birth, which left me with some birth injuries and just a lot of impact on my body that I hadn't really anticipated.\"

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PHOTO: Hannah Findlay enjoys writing and sharing her thoughts and motherhood experience on Instagram.
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Now, Findlay said she's found a strong community of mothers online who are more open to sharing the realities of being a mom and not just the positive and heartwarming aspects of parenthood.

\"I've made some really amazing … friendships with some women, you know, even in America,\" she said. \"We're connected through these shared experiences and through this shared trauma, if you will. And then as we've grown and moved through these experiences, become just mum friends, which is so nice.\"

\"I honestly don't think I could have done motherhood without this platform in this way of being creative and communicating my experience,\" she added.

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