Baby Bellies and Beyond

I gave birth to my son 6 months 2 weeks and one day ago, and I have no real  recollection of how big my baby bump actually was. If someone gave me a piece of string and asked me to cut it to the length that would have stretched around my enormous middle, I would have no idea how to gage how big I truly was. For me the size of my enormous baby bump was something that I wanted to flee from my memory that minute I gave birth, because I am sure if I would be able to see ex-actually how big I was, I would surly never have another baby!!

Unlike me, many women decide to cast their pregnant abdomens. They use deco paje or a paper mache type substance and make a mold of their pregnant bellies days before they pop, for them it is something they want to forever be a symbol in their home. I think that making a belly cast is symbolic at best, my first question would be how do you store it and where do you store it. Does it become one of those pieces in your home ear marked with the name of conversation starter….. imagine the conversation….. company asks, What is that mold of and you reply my pregnant belly, what do you really expect them to say? WOW it is beautiful?

For me the size of my baby belly is a memory that I want to kill, but if you feel like keeping it around, you could always cast your belly and hey…. maybe 3 or 4 kids down the road you can take stats of which child caused you the bigger bump!