A Women’s Body – Part 2

Ok, let’s get down to some of the beauties of pregnancy and how I learnt to love my changing body.

For me the beauty of pregnancy starts from the minute you find out you have created a gorgeous little life form in your body and that for the next 9 months (in reality it’s closer to 10 months haha) they are going to rely solely on you to help them grow and develop so that they are ready to enter this world. I still remember finding out at 2 weeks with each of my kids that I was expecting and looking down and wondering how a human body could possibly grow a tiny human but we do and it’s an amazing feeling, most of the time 🙂

Then you get the cute little bump that if you didn’t know you were pregnant may just look like you are bloated or have a food baby haha and if you are like me by 2 months I was no longer able to fit in my old clothes and was then in maternity clothes which made my life a little more complicated as I hadn’t told anyone at that point that I was expecting with any of the kids and then finally you hit that 12 week mark and the doctors say you are over that dangerous period and you get to tell your joyous news to anyone you want.

I think one of the amazing things that you get to experience is hearing that little galloping heartbeat for the first time and just being amazed. When I first heard that sound it made me cry and has done the same each and every time. As I have said before we lost our third little angel and unfortunately didn’t get to hear a heartbeat or anything and it was devastating and it was hard especially on my husband as this would have been his 1st biological child and it did make us so much more scared but when we made it to our first ultrasound and heard our rainbow babies heartbeat it lifted a huge weight off our shoulders. We were still scared but as each day went by we got happier and more excited and less nervous.

Then as the months go by and your belly grows you start to look and feel less bloated and more pregnant and you can start to embrace that feeling and people start to compliment and talk to you about your growing bump and it does give you a smile and that it the point where I think that pregnancy glow comes from. You can start to take your monthly or weekly belly photos to watch your body grow and change and by the end of things you can always have them to look back on 🙂

Throughout my pregnancies, I did struggle with the idea of getting bigger and putting weight on as I had always been on the smaller side and was scared that once I started to change that I would never be the same, but I learnt to love my body and to see that beauty in it. I had a few different photo shoots done while pregnancy with each of the kids and each one was different. I have done lace covers, underwear, nude and a boudoir shoot and with each one I have become more and more comfortable with my body and as my husband has put it I have learnt to see what other people see not what I think of my body. I even got married at 8 months pregnant with my son, which might I say was a mission considering I had to change dresses and everything because my original one didn’t fit me after 3 months haha

Then you get to the final stage of pregnancy and the in pending labour and by God at this point you just want it to be over but all you need to keep in mind no matter the pain at the end of things you get to hold your gorgeous bundle of life in your hands and think to yourself ‘I did this and I created this little human’