In recent years I have become much more at peace with my looks and don't stress nearly as much as I used to about my perceived imperfections.
In looking back through some photos of the time I was pregnant with LMS, I could only find four photos of me pregnant- two the day of my baby shower (about a month before my due date), one the day before we went in for the induction (LMS was a week and a half late), and one of me sitting in the hospital bed, waiting for something, anything, to happen.
about 5 weeks before my due date
the day before induction
in the hospital
Seriously? Four photos?
I may not have a cute little "bump"- I look more like I swallowed a beach ball- there's just nowhere for the baby to go but out, but that shouldn't stop me from documenting the fact that I was, in fact, pregnant.
I don't know if you've seen/read on various blogs about the push for mothers to make sure they're in the photos more, regardless of our looks (stressed out, hair and clothes not perfect, etc). I read about it a couple years ago and realized I was definitely guilty of taking lots of photos of Mr M and LMS, but many times I did not hand the camera off to Mr M so I could be in some of the photos.
I've been trying to be better about that, which is why I've posted several self photos of LMS and I when we're doing things and Mr M isn't around to take a photo for us. I need to be in the photos too.
Except that lately I haven't been taking as many photos. Mostly because we're not doing exciting things like going skiing, but still....
So a couple weeks I had LMS take some photos of me. They didn't turn out the best, but hey, I have photos of me 24 weeks pregnant with this little guy, which is way better than what I managed with LMS.
(I mentioned LMS took the photos, didn't I?)
My goal is to do at least a monthly profile pic, but we'll see if I actually stay on top of that :) I just hit 27 weeks, so in the next week or so I'll try to get some more photos posted.
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