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Remembering Your Pregnant Belly

Whether you love or hate your pregnant belly, you will want to remember it after your baby is born. Although you may feel like you will be pregnant forever, this is not the case. Soon the baby will be here and you will fondly remember your baby bump. You can keep a record of your growing belly in a scrapbook. Devote a page to each stage of your pregnancy. You can include weekly or monthly pictures, depending on how large you want the book to be. You can decorate the page or add some text. A note to your baby … Continue reading →

Documenting Your Pregnancy

When you are experiencing the discomforts and anxiously awaiting your baby’s arrival, it can feel like pregnancy will last forever. Later, when the baby is here and the pregnancy is over, it will feel like the time just flew by. For this reason, you will want to document your pregnancy. There are as many ways to document your pregnancy as there are pregnant women. You will want to find the method that you most enjoy and will be most meaningful for you later. Consider your talents when choosing a method for documenting your pregnancy. Are you artistic? Do you have … Continue reading →

Photographing Moms-to-be

When I was four months pregnant with my daughter my best friend demanded that I send her photos of my bulging belly. I reluctantly obliged. I don’t make a habit of posing with my hands on my bare stomach, and at four months along there wasn’t much to show. Still, at my friend’s insistence I kept documenting my ever expanding belly. I think the last shot took place about two weeks before I gave birth. Looking back now I am so glad that I have those photos. They aren’t the most attractive, but they document moments in time that are … Continue reading →

Fitness Week in Review for October 20-26, 2008

If you are planning to pig out on Halloween candy in the coming days you might want to consider some of the tips provided in this week’s Fitness blogs. October 20th—–Running While Pregnant. Some women can barely walk while they are pregnant while others run marathons. Find out whether running during pregnancy is a wise move or a recipe for disaster in this blog. October 21st—–Keeping a Workout Journal. People journal about their vacations, their love life and their children’s milestones, so why not put that writing to good use by documenting your workouts? Find out why more and more … Continue reading →

Taking Pictures of Sick Kids

This blog was inspired by a recent series Valorie did in BABY about the emotional strain of having your child end up in the NICU. It reminded me of one of my best friends whose newborn spent nearly four months of his life in the NICU. My pal’s routine pregnancy became anything but near the mid-point of her fifth month. A previously undetected health condition put her life in jeopardy and she was forced to give birth more than four months prior to her due date. The end result: She survived, but the early labor meant her first-born child had … Continue reading →

Making a Belly Cast

A belly cast is a fun and unique way to preserve your pregnant belly for posterity. If you haven’t seen one, a belly cast is just as it sounds a plaster cast of your pregnant belly. This can be done at any time during the last months of pregnancy. Making a belly cast is easy. It takes about an hour. Making a cast is a fun thing to do with your partner or older children. If you don’t have other children, this can be a wonderful bonding moment for you and your spouse as you both anticipate the end of … Continue reading →

Hearing Baby’s Heartbeat for the First Time

One of the major highlights of pregnancy is hearing the baby’s heartbeat for the first time. This was a really big deal for me with all four of our babies. That moment when you hear your baby inside your womb is priceless. For many parents, hearing the heartbeat is the first real connection they feel to the baby. Suddenly, the baby seems real. Sometimes parents who were ambiguous about the pregnancy feel very differently after hearing the baby’s heart beating. The heartbeat can be heard by Doppler sometime around the tenth week of pregnancy. It won’t always be heard in … Continue reading →

Document Family History with Photos (and More)

Yeah, I’m aging myself again. I’m old enough to remember when not all photos had dates embedded into them. I’m also old enough to remember that I thought I would never forget certain things, so I didn’t bother to inscribe names, dates, locations, or other information on the backs of my photos. If you don’t want to write directly on the back of the photo, write a message to store with them or to place beside them in albums, keepsake books, and scrapbooks, or slip a piece of paper behind those photos you frame. It is way too easy to … Continue reading →