Nine months, when you are first starting out a pregnancy, feels like an eternity. As you carefully examine your belly every morning for signs of growth, wondering when you’ll finally have a bump to show for all the work your body is doing growing that baby inside of you, it at times feels like your stomach will stay flat forever.  But then one day you catch the first glimpses of a little bump and slowly, as the days go by, that bump grows and grows until one day you look down and realize you haven’t seen your feet in weeks. You place your hand on a belly that feels like it couldn’t possibly get any bigger and you wonder if you’ll ever have that flat stomach of days long ago again.

When I was pregnant with Maya Lorne took pictures of me every week so we had this amazing collection of pictures that documented well the progress from flat to gigantic. This time I didn’t take weekly shots, I wish that I had, but life is busy. I have been taking more pictures lately and I do have a pretty good collection of photos to help document the evolution of this baby bump.

I can remember when I took this first picture at 16 weeks I thought I already looked huge, you can barely tell I’m pregnant! Then as the weeks went on the belly grew and grew. Today, at 35 and a half weeks I feel huge and it is only going to get bigger.

20 weeks makes a huge difference. There you have it, the evolution of my baby bump.