Documenting Baby

My husband is a picture taker and he loves being in them. In fact, he loves it so much he has a 800 dollar professional camera.

I am not a picture taker, nor do I like being in them. 

See the problem here?

While perusing pinterest recently, there are all these 'super cute' pictures of pregnant ladies documenting monthly what they look like being pregnant. These are super cute, but lets be honest who wants to see themselves getting as large as a blimp and who has the time do to this crap? Plus the ones that people tag are of the tiniest girls who don't look like they are really 40 weeks pregnant, but  rather look like how I do at right now at 20 weeks. Seriously people? If we were all only that cute and small at 40 weeks.

She just looks like she just ate a large hamburger and maybe a slice of pizza.

Unfortunately, Nathan wants to takes these pictures and I have always had a strict policy of taking pregnancy photos. 

I prefer to treat pregnancy photo ops with a 1950's attitude. In the times of Lucy and Ricky, the women weren't even allowed to say they were pregnant on television and taking pictures of your pregnant belly were out of the question. Sounds like my kind of pregnancy! I just think that its my body and I don't want all these pictures of me looking like a large cow out in the world.

I have slowly, and by slowly I mean at the speed of a turtle, allowed pictures of my belly to be taken. 

There are rules however:

1. I must know that the picture is being taken.

2. I must always have a piece of clothing covering my belly. Those naked pregnancy photos freak me out!

3. When I get over 7 months pregnant, there will be only one more baby belly specific photo. It will be right when labor starts and its to be used completely as documentary purposes to show how large I really got.

4. NO PICTURES OF ME DURING BIRTH AND RIGHT AFTER BIRTH. 

5. The picture of me holding my baby the first time will be like Beyonces. 

Perfect hair and make-up, not the look of a women who just went through 18 hours of labor.

So folks here it is....the 20 week baby bump photo.

Yes, I'm brushing my teeth and about to go to bed. I know its not as cute as some pinterest posts, but honestly you're all lucky I even let Nathan take a photo of me pregnant. I promise the next one will be done with the professional camera. So, expect one next week when we find out the sex of the baby :) 

And no I will not do some stupid gimmick of having a thing tied around my belly with the color matching the sex of the baby, gender reveal cakes,balloons, or Nathan kissing my belly.
Thanks pinterest for those stupid ideas.

Seriously? Slaving in the kitchen to reveal the gender?
What happened to a good ole' fashioned phone call?

-Julia