Mother-blessing/belly cast/maternity shoot PICS!!

[sunnymw]

**Notice: currently too lazy to resize***

Well, let me tell you how it went.

There was food. OMG, there was so much food!
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There were about 12 ladies from family/church that came--nice and intimate, not too many people in my not-so-big house.

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(The woman in the black flowery dress is the one who did the photography)

Anyway, the first thing we did was take pictures of me and The Belly. I'll put those pics last of course. Then we sat around in a big circle in my living room and all guessed the baby's gender, weight, birth date, and suggested more names. I have the papers to see who wins!
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/sunnywallace/Coleman%20Photography/IMG_3064.jpg
(the woman on the left is GMIL, she's the one staying w/ us right now and after the birth)
Then we shared stories of what was most positive about our past births, and the best things about being a parent. MIL read a letter she had written out loud for me, one of those real tear-jerkers.
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Then we all went into our bedroom (omg I had to actually clean in there!) and stood around in a circle and everyone said a prayer for the baby/birth and what they hoped would happen, etc. Then everyone checked out the bathroom--where all the birthin' stuff was set up. They thought it was pretty cool :)
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(All my don't-bleed-to-death tinctures finally came!)

Then we ate. And ate. And ate. And everyone signed my belly cast (however, the photographer had to leave then, so the pics of my belly cast are pre-everyone's signature... it's covered now! LOL)
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I got to hold a 5 week old itty bitty baby... I worked my magic baby sleeping charm and she passed out, then I wore her in a hotslings pouch and she stayed passed out for a LONG time... then I passed her off to her mama, who wore her for all the praying and stuff and TOTALLY wanted one, so I sent it home w/ her to use until she could find a better one (mine's a size 3, she's a 2). Anyway, you can't see her, but this is me and Olivia
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/sunnywallace/Coleman%20Photography/IMG_3062_edited-1.jpg


Anyway, without further ado... Belly pics!!! :D

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Okay, okay, that's it I promise!! :D If you made it this far congratulations and thanks for looking!!! :D

[mhaddon]

Looks like you had a great time!

Mine is the 28th- I need to get out invitations :blush:

[sunnymw]

If you want to cheat... you can edit my template ;)
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/sunnywallace/invitJUN14.jpg

[happysahm]

Really nice! I'm having one in July. Did you make that bellycast yourself? If so, did you buy a kit and which one? I want to make one in a few weeks and I'm not sure if I should do a kit or have go to someone like a doula that will do it for me.

[Knits4Noah]

Here are some from our maternity shoot last week. I haven't gotten to see them all yet, but I can't wait! We will be doing a newborn shoot with the same photographer - she is amazing!

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[sunnymw]

Beautiful!!

I got 2 rolls of Rigid Wrap from Michael's, they were $10 apiece (for the 8"x180" roll... you'd need 3-4 of the 4" wide rolls). I sat, and DH did it. :) pretty easy! Just make sure you're comfy, my butt was SO SORE!

[keegans_mommy]

Great pictures and WOW your bathroom! Gives me ideas of how I should have stuff laid out in the next few weeks, even though we will be using a MW, we still have to have quite a bit of stuff here ourselves.

[sunnymw]

Yeah... I'm super... anal

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LOL