So I guess you could say....

...I am getting back into the swing of being a photographer after a few months break. It's hard to be creative all the time. :) This past weekend I also had a maternity shoot, which went really well.

The next pics you see of Sam, he will be outside my belly

I just thought I'd post all of the ultrasound pics together one last time. The next pics you see, will be from the hospital! Can you tell I'm excited!? They go in order from right to left. I know it's backwards. :)

Where are you Sam!?!?

And by that I mean, when are coming out to meet us? And secondly where are you exactly in my belly? I look at my belly and I can't really believe that I am 38 weeks and 1 day pregnant. I see some women who are 6 months along and they are as big as I am. People very often find it hard to believe I am due in 2 weeks. I hope he's not too small in there, so if he needs more growing time, so be it. But I can't wait to meet you little guy!

36 weeks, Baby!

So as of yesterday, I am 36 weeks. I took this picture today at 36 weeks 1 day. This coming Saturday, Sam will be officially full term! He could come now and everything would be good as long as he didn't have any problems. But it would be best if he could hold off until next weekend. I have been having some cramping on and off, but no real contractions yet. So we'll see. I also tried to get Katie to take some pictures today. Kind of her last portrait photos before Sam gets here. She was not very...well...we'll just say cooperative. I have some more on my flickr, but I think I may need to re-edit some of them. Not crazy about the editing I did on them. But check the rest out here.

So, I did do other stuff over the past few days....

I tried to take my own "professional" maternity pics, but when your as big and pregnant as I am, you really need someone to do it for you. Even with the remote, the tripod, I just couldn't get the shots the way I wanted them. I might try again in a couple of days. The one I posted was the one I liked the most. The only editing was fading me into the background, and cropping it. Which I think I need to redo the cropping.

So I was thinking.....

.....how being pregnant is so very nerve racking. With Katie I was working so much that I didn't have a whole lot of time to worry. With this one, I have too much time to worry.
It makes me wonder that more children that you have, does it become easier not to think about that what ifs? Or maybe the information age has given us too much knowledge about all the possibilities of what could go wrong. I just don't know if I could keep going through the cycle of having child after child, say hypothetically 13 kids. Because inevitably your chances of having something go wrong with one of them would get higher. There's so much heartache and stress that goes along with pregnancy, it just makes me pause. I think what really happens is that when the urge comes to have another child, one conveniently forgets about all the bad stuff. I guess it's like they say, if you carried all of the bad stuff with you after the baby gets here, ie labor, miscarriage, infertility, etc., you wouldn't even want to bother having more than one child.