Should i get maternity photos?

Pregnancy is this special slice of your life. It’s such a fraction of a moment. Nine months of perhaps sickness, of finally being warm all the time and cold no more, of watching your belly grow with delight instead of judgement, nine tiny months of blooming with this culminating end result of a living human being wriggling on your chest, wet and warm, and yours forevermore.

You might not believe it if you’re currently anticipating the arrival of your bundle of joy, but you will one day forget how those kicks feel. You’ll have a memory of the feeling, but my youngest is six year old now, and when I try to reach back into my mind to find how she felt inside me, I remember it viscerally, but it’s also like trying to grab at a bubble—as soon as you touch it, it’s gone. In the words of the great Rose Dawson, “he exists now only in my memory.” What helps me the most with remembering what those stirs of life felt like is watching videos of her actually in my belly…