as much as pregnancy is about the relationship with your child, it’s also about a new relationship with your body. succumbing to the changes. watching every curve evolve. sometimes with love, sometimes with fear, sometimes with disbelief. it’s as though you introduce yourself again to your own home that’s now the home to another being.

it’s the most freeing, the most terrifying, the most unknown. it’s every feeling of gratitude, and yet also of wonder, because our body is no longer just for us.

and so, when you look in the mirror and see the changes, the curves, the dimples, the lines… day to day, month to month, think of it as falling in love with your home again, just as she is and for whoever she will become.