Monday, October 3, 2011

Photo Challenge, Day One: Self-Portrait



I've decided to participate in a photo challenge throughout the month of October, along with a whole bunch of other bloggers. I wanted to do this because 1) maybe I'll learn a little bit about photography, and 2) it gives me something to write about other than the baby! But as you'll see, I included Little m in my first picture, so that didn't work out too well, did it?!

Day One was to take a self-portrait. I've been wanting to take a recent picture of me and baby girl to compare to my last bump picture, so this was the perfect excuse.

I took the picture on the left on August 14th, three days before baby girl was born. I was 39 weeks and 2 days pregnant. The picture on the right was taken today, 6 weeks and 5 days after giving birth. It's still so surreal to think that Little m was the thing growing inside me for nine months, kicking me all the time, and making me have to pee every half hour. I've said it a million times, but I still can't get over how amazing the human body is!



5 comments:

  1. Well you look fantastic! No excess baby fat for you!

    I look forward to seeing your photography work!

    ........starting with more baby pics of course.

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  2. Sad but true, Marina, I'm still "overweight" according to those silly height/weight charts. If I could lose 17 lbs I'd be at my goal weight! Guess I shouldn't have bought that bag of cookies yesterday :)

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  3. Oh you look beautiful to me, my beautiful daughter!! That picture doesn't do you justice. I can't wait to see more photos, also!!

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  4. 17 pounds? Nonsense!

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  5. You look fantastic!!! That's the one big thing that got to me after having Stella, just how surreal it was that she lived in me for 9 months. It was so overwhelming and amazing to think Josh and I created her. Just thinking about it brought tears to my eyes. Can't wait to see you and meet little m next week.

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