I am starting to get the tiniest bit of a belly.
You will never see it.
I am not doing belly pics. No way in hell. In the spirit of full disclosure, ever since I knew Itsy and Bitsy had made a temporary home out of my uterus (which, by the way, they totally pee all over...), I've enjoyed looking at the belly pics on other pregnant-after-IF-and-or-loss blogs. I know how hard you all worked for those bellies. I've googled "twin belly pics" and scared myself silly, because holy shit some of those monsters are huge. My understanding of gravity means I simply do not grasp how the uterus does not just fall right out of the abdominal cavity and onto the floor. (Note to self: strengthen ab muscles.)
But I still have a visceral reaction to the random bellies I see in my real life (like all those women at the doctors' offices!), and still hide anyone whose Facebook profile is a belly pic.
My HG aside, I think if I posed, giving you a side view, looking over my shoulder, with one arm above and one arm below (or one below and one holding the camera, or one below pulling my shirt/dress as tight as possible), back hyperextended, big fat smug grin on my face...just assuming that position would make me vomit.
What, I wonder, does your average fertile do with belly pics, aside from slapping them all over the internet? I can't imagine a child wanting to look through a whole series. A photo or two of "and that's you inside of me", sure. A week by week progression of mom in her underwear? Yeah no. I use this reasoning to say: I do not want them. My husband does not want them. I highly doubt our future children will want them. I will not take them.
My pregnancy will not go undocumented. I have this blog, I will have their baby books (my RE gave us one when we were pregnant with Isaiah, and then another when they saw this pregnancy on the u/s), I have a zillion ultrasounds and will have more. And, between my birthday (October), Thanksgiving (November), Christmas (December), and the labor or C-section, (before these events, not during), pictures of me in my pregnant state will exist. They just won't be belly pics.
I am not entirely sure if this is something IF has stolen from me. I know the reaction to pregnant women is from IF, but I've never really been a "take 2098032808 pictures of me!!!" sort of person. I don't take many pictures of anything (though I do intend to change this once Itsy and Bitsy arrive). So it's entirely possible it's something I just wouldn't have done. But with IF in the backseat, it's just one big hell no for me.
13 comments:
TEN WEEKS! Congrats on double digits dear!
I apologize in advance because I will likely be taking belly pics, in the event that I ever get pregnant (please god please god please god). I think IF has done the opposite to me because I fear I will be enamored with my belly bump, and I take a LOT of photos in my life to begin with.
Please still be my friend...
I have trouble looking at pictures of myself NOW, I can't imagine Ill be a obsessed with photos of myself when Im preggs either :) Sure, I'd like a few professional maternity ones done to keep for myself and the good ones Ill probably share on this blog. But I dont think Ill be posing week by week. I just dont think its my cup of tea...
Oh and "F YEAH" for ten weeks!!! :)
I have one picture of myself while pregnant with the twins. It was taken by my neighbor, who insisted that I should have a pregnancy picture. I was around 26 weeks, and I was already measuring at full term singleton size, and I had a long way to go. :) And I have to tell you, twin bellies aren't pretty (unless your J lo or Angelina maybe) they are HUGE, not nicely round, and covered in stretch marks.
Yeah 10 weeks!!!!! :)
I feel the exact same way about belly pix! In fact, I just posted about this recently too! Congrats on 10 weeks!
Hear hear!
Though I do have to say I'd be curious about the size of your belly with itsy and bitsy in there once you're 9 months along... One pic. but not of the belly. of all of you, maybe using the belly as a tray? just throwing that out there. :-)
Congrats on 10 weeks!!
I'm sure I'll be one of the ladies who will be taking belly shots if I ever get pregnant. I've thought about it for years already and I'd love to do a progression of week by week pictures of how the bump evolves. I am sure I'll share a few online, but other than that, I'm not sure what I'll do with them. The pictures will mostly be for me and I guess my family living half a world away. Each to their own, right?
PS I was fully dressed for the pic, not a 'belly pic' just a pregnancy picture. No one ever saw my naked belly but the docs and me :) Even my husband was daunted by it.
Hooray for 10w!! I understand the no belly pics thing. I started having the Hubs take a picture at 11w, and just do it every 3w or so. No one sees them but us (and maybe parents on an occasion or 2). To each their own.
I do think you should have a few pics of just you to document it for prosperity and to show the kids. They don't have to be naked belly or anything.
ps- even though most women think twin bellies are monstrous, I find them amazing!
Congrats on hitting the 10 week mark!!
I was like you - even at my shower, the pictures of me were in a dark room and I was wearing black! There are I think 2 pictures of me before the twins came out - probably around 30 weeks...and that was only because my husband and sister MADE me. I am glad they did, because otherwise I might not remember how big I was, but I don't think I ever posted them, and I certainly don't share them! I don't get the week by week thing...but whatevs! Congrats again!
Congratulations on double digits - a quarter of the way there already!
I am an average fertile and I did belly pics because I had wanted to be pregnant for so long and loved having that belly so much, that I wanted to always remember how it looked.
I can't imagine my son will want to look at them though, so if I didn't want them as a record of my pregnancy there wouldn't have been much point ...
Ha! you're hillarious. You're not even goign to do the all important maternity photo shoot perfectly timed just before stretch marks start showing up for your personal enjoyment?
It has been quite a road. Glad there were rainbows at the end for us both.
I won't be doing belly pics either, and at least for me, this isn't related to infertility. As a, erm, plus-size woman, my pre-pregnancy belly was already bigger (though differently shaped) than many of the belly pics I see of women at 15 weeks. And my belly already has stretch marks from weight gain/loss. No one needs to see that!
I guess I can see the appeal in doing belly pics for some women, but I think I'll just allow my friends to take a few snapshots of me at my shower--fully clothed--and call it good.
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