First-time Motherhood
Back from a week off (I got twitchy without a Gallery theme last week!), Tara Cain’s Gallery is challenging us once again to come up with some photographic genius. This week’s theme (with prizes and everything) is MOTHERHOOD. I had to dive into the archives for this one as I wanted to focus more on the beginning of my journey into first-time motherhood.
Love at First Sight
I took a pregnancy test on September 11, 2007 and had an instantaneous POSITIVE result. The next several weeks were surreal. Visiting the GP to tell him that I had taken a pregnancy test and it was positive to then be told “Congratulations, I’ll pass your information on to the midwife”. What? No exam? No official test proclaiming me a mother-to-be? Nope, just congratulations!
And then waiting until week eleven when we had our dating scan…as I’d not had ANY pregnancy symptoms other than being totally knackered at night and falling dead asleep at about 8pm, it didn’t seem real. The ultrasound technician dimmed the lights, squeezed some gel on my belly and up popped this image. I can’t explain the feeling but all I know is it was the best feeling I’d ever felt.
You're going to be a Mummy!
Look at how much our Little Miss (not that we knew that!) had grown by our 20 week scan. Our hospital had a policy of confidentiality regarding revealing the sex (don’t ask) so we couldn’t have found out if we had wanted to…and we didn’t. We had the pleasure of having my Mom present for this scan which I know was very special to her. She even tried to bribe the ultrasound technician without success. I love how Little Miss has her legs in this picture…showing her flexibility at a very early age. I was so proud…and still am!
Finally you're here!
This is the very first picture of Mummy & Little Miss. Not that you can make out Mummy. I wouldn’t have wanted to see my face in this picture after rather significant blood loss during the c-section and a pretty miserably recovery, I wasn’t at my best. But about 15 hours after her first appearance in this world she was settled on Mummy and I was loving every minute of it. I was a Mummy…officially.
"I love you Mummy"
Fast forward a week or so and I was getting the hang of this Mummy business. Little Miss was a formula-fed star and looking mighty pleased with herself after a feed. There’s a rather nice smile on my face which you can just see. I was doing the best thing I’ve ever done…becoming a Mummy. There were plenty of rough spots and lots of tears (from Little Miss as well) but we learned how to be together and I wouldn’t change a thing.
Hello My Little Miss
I love this picture of the two of us. My mom is in the background as well! I love the look on Little Miss’ face. She was picking up her head and holding it up to get a good look at her surroundings by 2-3 weeks old. A beaky-boo from the start. I’m so proud of my Little Miss and quite proud of the Mummy I have become. Well done to us both!
Thank you to Tara for giving us another great theme. I hope I have done it justice by trawling through the past!
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No matter how many times, that 1st scan makes you all choked up! It’s a very special time!
Such a beautiful post x
I still have my scan pictures of my four – framed and in pride of place on the mantelpiece. I love those grainy little pictures – our babies first photgraphs!
What a lovely post! I LOVE my scan photos, wish I’d thought of that! I am smiling broadly, thank you!
Oh, they are lovely! I remember that feeling well. I felt desperately sick with no1, but right up to the 20 week scan (we didn’t get one before then) I was worried I wasn’t really pregnant, just feeling a bit dodgy!
Ah what a lovely post. Your choice of photos and words sums motherhood up perfectly. This weeks theme is making me very emotional – another thing associated with motherhood! I did not really feel properly pregnant until my scan and then it hit me that my life was never going to be the same again!
Great post
Great series of photo telling a lovely story! Thank you!
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(And I am such a sap, scan pics always make me all gooey
I didn’t really pregnant until I had the first scan. I think I needed proof. How odd that your hospital wouldn’t tell you the sex of your baby ??!!
Lovely photos, lovely post. How gorgeous is your little girl?!?
LCM x
Aaaaw the first scan…that brings back memories and tears
Great post and gorgeous pics, I love the one of the two of you at the end x
Awww, those are lovely photos. I was just looking at my boys’ scans the other day and it got me all choked up! Broodiness, be gone please!
Scan photos are great aren’t they! There is such a lot of waiting for the unknown during pregnancy – lots of hospitals have a policy of not disclosing the sex of the baby these days – I feel it really should be up to the parents! Lovely post x
Gorgeous – those early foggy bitty scan pictures are full of so much hope and pride aren’t they? And the last image just speaks volumes about those (foggy, bitty, hopeful and proud) early baby days. X
I found the first scan photos of my DD this month – hiding in an envelope in a drawer. Nothing quite makes it seem as real as seeing that little body on the screen.
Lovely shots of you and her together x
Oh I especially love the fourth photo….I had forgotten that little satisfied smile they do when they are full of milk…awwww, you’ve made me all broody. ;0S
I love your photo’s, Scan pictures are so special aren’t they?
It’s not until you see your baby on your scan that you start to really believe that you’re pregnant, or at least that’s how it felt for me.
Love you putting the ultrasounds in
Can’t get over the last photo, she is amazing (and you of course) Jen
What lovely photos!
What lovely photos she is a gorgeous little girl xx
Beautiful pictures and story. I love the last picture with the 3 generations and you and your mom gazing at Little Miss!
You stare at the grey and white blur, and then – MAGIC! The best picture you’ll ever, ever see. Lovely post with resonance for any mother.
Hi,
Sian – MummyTips / CyberMummy Here…… I’ve just posted with the info you need in order to get your pic printed for the real life CyberMummy Gallery exhibition courtesy of Photobox.
http://www.mummy-tips.com/2010/06/cybermummy-gallery-get-your-pics-in.html
Gorgeous series of pics. Just lovely.