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People are loving this Mam's post about 'getting s**t done' with twin babies

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HEIN KOH IS an artist living and working in Brooklyn.

Last year, she gave birth to twins named Ami and Oni. They’re pretty adorable, as you can see.

A few weeks ago, Koh shared a throwback photo of herself breastfeeding her five-week-old twins — while tapping away on her laptop.

Accompanying the photo was a caption about how she still managed to “get s**t done” in spite of the two little people now in her life.

#tbt 5/19/15 when my #twins were 5 weeks old and despite the sleep deprivation and frequent (every 2-3 hours, 24-7, 45 min at a time) #breastfeeding, I was still getting s**t done.

She refuted the renowned artist Marina Abramovic’s claims that motherhood can hold female artists back and wrote that becoming a mother helped her to be “extremely efficient with my time, prioritise what’s important and let go of the rest, and multitask like a champ”.

I learned to function (even if barely) on very little sleep, and out of the chaos, insanity and even torture at times, a flood of new emotions entered into my work, becoming more interesting & layered as a result.

She concluded that parenting comes with an array of challenges, but that it’s important to not regard it as something that will “hold you back”.

What I am saying is that parenting is like any other challenge in life – the biggest f**king challenge in my own life thus far – and if you embrace it and figure out creative solutions, you can emerge a better person.  It’s important to think about the ways in which these challenges can help you move forward, rather than hold you back.

Koh shared the photo on Facebok where it was liked and shared thousands of times.

And here’s just a sample of some of the comments…

rock Hein Koh / Facebook Hein Koh / Facebook / Facebook

Rock, indeed.

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