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Sharing two regrets
As I'm reflecting about the post below, I can think of two regrets to share with moms-to-be that I've been kicking around in my head.
The first is that I never had a photo taken of my bare pg belly. DH always pooh-poohed the idea, he envisioned "artsy" photos of me with draping, etc. and thought it was not our style. But I wish I had just taken one for myself on my own camera. I'm (likely - never say never!) done having babies so I've lost my chance. Having that pg belly is just such a freaking miracle.
The second is I gave away the girls' baby clothes all in one fell swoop and now I regret not holding on to at least some of them. At the time I told myself that I had photos galore of these outfits, and why would I need to hang on to them, but now I regret it. I'm usually such a "if I haven't used it in 6 months, toss it" person, which usually is good, but in this case I think I should have held on to one or two of my faves. Now they're gone. I don't even have the outfits they wore home from the hospital. I do have a dress or two - some Christmas dresses that just happened to be hanging in a separate closet the day I gave away those clothes, so I guess I have those.
Anyway, no sense in pining away, but I just thought I'd share in case anyone can benefit from my melancholy.
God my hormones are ON FIRE today. Damn you AF!
Wife, Musician, Fed, WW-er, and Mom of three little kids - not necessarily in that order.
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Re: Sharing two regrets
Thanks for the advice:)
I don't have any pregnant belly pics - but we do have pics of me nursing - they are very discreet - but still for my eyes only - and I really cherish those.
First, thank you for being melancholy and sappy about these things - it makes me feel normal since I'm not normally like this but since having DS it's been ridiculous! I completely understand about wanting to have some of the baby clothes...I get nostalgic just packing them away for a one-day #2, I don't know how I'll be able to part with them for real one day.
Second - i made a last-minute decision to do some maternity pics but was strongly against bare belly. DH and the photog convinced me to do just a couple and I'm glad I listened to them, it's amazing to see my belly and think DS was all scrunched up in there!
I just gave aways my girls' first year clothes and decided, at the last minute, to save a bag full of the ones we truly loved. I'm planning to make a quilt out of them. However, I am a novice sewer and have never quilted, so they will most likely just stay in the bag, lol.
I regret not cutting just a tiny little bit of hair off my newborns (thanks, mssaint, never had the idea until you said something LOL). I did take a maternity pic of myself every single week, either on Sat or Sun, as well as weighted myself.
TBH, I have no idea what clothes my kids wore home from the hospital, it just wasn't a big deal to me. I remember the hats they wore and kept those and I kept a few clothes from their 1st year.
There are so many "I wish I had done that"s - I just try to remember all the stuff I did do and am doing! Like the 120-pg photo books I do for each child's birth year (i.e.: from birth to 1; 1-2, 2-3, etc).
Sorry :-) I do regret not cutting a tiny bit of it, though - it was so dark and now my LO is blond!
I do regret not doing maternity photos, but we have some ok ones of me at Christmas last year and we did take one right before we left for the hospital when my water broke, and that's a fun one to have.
I have been really bad at filling out LO's baby book, but I can use facebook timeline to look back, I guess :-)
I want to so the same thing! I found a couple sellers on Etsy who will do it. It wouldn't be cheap, but otherwise it will never get done, so . . .
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
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I was anti-maternity photos until I was about 34 weeks along. I caved and had them done less than a week before I had LO, at 37 weeks. I don't regret it at all, and will have them done if we have another LO. PM me if you'd like the name of the photographer we went with . She's fantastic with newborns too.
I've been wondering how I'm going to store all the baby clothes as LO outgrows them and was toying with giving them away. This was a reminder to hang onto them.
Thank you.