Belly progress photos

ChristinaC2012 · August 2014

Is anyone planning to take progress photos of their growing bellies? I love the idea so much, but it feels funny to do now that I'm pregnant haha (maybe it's because I just feel so bloated right now and not cute). The Bump checklist is taunting me with the to dos of taking a picture of myself at 4 and 5 weeks.

Anyway, what are you ladies doing? Are you taking the photos now or waiting a few weeks to start?

I thought of maybe taking one this week and then in another 4 weeks with weekly photos when I actually start showing baby.

katie0919 · August 2014

I will be taking weekly photos. I did last time, too and it's a really great memory to have and I still love looking through them to see when I really started to pop and see how big I actually got. I meant to take one this past weekend at 4 weeks, but forgot. I think I started at 6 weeks last time and went all the way through 41 and then took one at 41w 3d when I was induced.

I highly recommend taking bump pics....I also recommend taking "real" bump pics...i.e have your DH or SO take the picture so you can see your face, try to avoid the phone pics in the mirror - it's not the same!

GR8TDANEMOM · August 2014

I didn't take good bump pics last time id just randomly get a pic of myself in the mirror. I regret it so I'll be doing it this time. I won't start until probably a weeks though

evakatharina · August 2014

I'm doing it! I took my first a few days ago when I was 4 weeks. I'm using the pregnancy journal photo book on shutterfly as my pregnancy journal. I wish I had a better true before picture (before bloating) to prove I once wasn't fat, but oh well!

Part of me is nervous to be investing all this time and energy, you know, just in case (god forbid). But the other part of me is so excited, and determined to love this little poppyseed now no matter what comes! I would have loved having a similar record of my moms pregnancy to look at when I was little, so I see this as a gift to my future LO!

smash1228 · August 2014

I took a few last time. Probably do the same this time....every few weeks.

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rivieramaya · August 2014

I did them with DS and I will with this pregnancy starting at 6 weeks. I loved watching the bump grow over time. You may not feel it now, but you will look back at these beginning weeks and miss your pre-pregnancy face and how "thin" you were.

MrsF0831 · August 2014

I think I will do this every 4 weeks. I love taking pictures, and scrapbooking. Plus we just a cannon slr camera so i'm excited to put that to use.

momtosam · August 2014

I will probably get DH to take one in the next couple days for the first one. I did with DS. I had a bump book that I did with my pregnancy with him. I tracked my pregnancy with him and I put in the weekly pictures. It was fun to see the progression. I want to get the same book this time and do it again. I really want to do something fun with it this time though.

twinkletoes3126 · August 2014

I have some belly pictures when I was pregnant last time, but I didn't do weekly pics. I would really like to do them this time around and maybe include DS. I have a little chalkboard so maybe I will have him hold it up every week with how many weeks I am. I probably won't start until 2nd trimester though.

maybebride · August 2014

I started with DS at 12 weeks because there wasn't much going on before then except for my own belly fat. I stopped doing them weekly sometime before 20 weeks. I would just forget then I didn't really love how I looked for awhile. I did a really great shot at 25 weeks, but no other true belly shots.

I do sort of wish I'd done more, so I will probably do them again. I heard a really great idea to have older LO hold the fruit/veggie baby is each week and take the pic with mom. I think that sounds like fun, so we might actually try that.

itsmevkb · August 2014

The best I've managed is to snap random ones along the way and to get one when I'm extra ginormously huge right at the end.

MiraK03 · August 2014

I took a picture every week last time but when I was cleaning my phone out I accidently deleted the app I was using so I lost all those pictures. I will be taking pictures again!

twinkletoes3126 · August 2014

@maybebride‌ I love the idea of having the older sibling hold the fruit/vegetable!

sarahchrismck · August 2014

I know someone who did belly pics each week holding the fruit/veggie that corresponded to the size of the baby. I thought that was adorable, and I might consider that. But right now, mine is the size of a poppy seed so I might wait until it's a bit bigger.

Carlton2013 · August 2014

I'm too chubby in my belly already to take those this early. My goal is to look the same at 4-5 months. Lol. I started balancing my diet and have been walking a lot...so hopefully I can even everything out without "dieting" or losing much weight (cause I know that's not good)

ktzen3 · August 2014

I did it with my other pregnancies and they are fun to look at. I started those at 12 weeks and did it every 2 weeks, so I will probably do the same this time around.

abbalish · August 2014

I think I'd like to do this - maybe starting around 6 weeks or so. I can't wait to actually have a baby bump, but with my luck I feel like I'll just look fat for the first 30 weeks!

TJPam · August 2014

I definitely will be. I took bi-weekly photos with my DS. I started at 4 weeks and will do the same with this one. My November '12 Facebook group, we did weekly bump pics on Wednesdays and called it HDBD (Hump Day Bump Day). It was fun to see everyone's bumps grow.

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