Best Friends and Belly Molding
This is my belly mold before Lisa gets to paint it. Watch for the finished product in future posts.
I moved down to Jacksonville back in September when I was about twelve weeks pregnant. My husband and I had been living five hours away from each other for the first few months of our marriage, which worked fine and kept the spark there, but when we found our attempts at getting pregnant had been effective, it was important to get our little family all living under the same roof.
Unfortunately for me, that meant moving away from all of my friends and family and completely starting over. It’s halfway through January, and I’m still having a hard time with the starting over process. We’re a one car household, I have minor social anxiety and there’s always plenty for me to do at home, so why bother attempting to make friends? I’ve finally set myself up with some engagements through our family readiness officer and inquired about the Jacksonville Le Leche League, so I’m making an honest effort to establish a social life down here.
In the mean time, my best friend from back home, Lisa, came down to visit me this weekend. It served a double purpose, as she has been dating a marine stationed out of LeJeune for a few months, but it was mostly to come see me and her god baby. We’ve had this trip planned out since November, and now that it’s over, it seems like it went by way too fast.
One of the really awesome things we got to do while she was here was a belly mold. The day we did it, I was 29 weeks and 1 day pregnant, so it has a nice “pregnant-y” shape to it without me being as big as a house. The process took nearly two hours of dipping these strips into water and strategically placing them on my belly and chest to form the shape of my naked pregnant body. It was a great experience, but one that I wouldn’t be comfortable letting just any friend do for me. Lisa is an art student at VCU in Richmond, Virginia so she’ll be using the mold as a canvas and painting a unique piece for her art portfolio. After she gets all the pictures taken of it, she’ll be presenting it to me at my baby shower next month. I’m really excited to see how it turns out. She plans to base it around a tree theme because my daughter’s name will be Arbor, and working one of the knots at the center of the trunk to resemble my pregnant stomach… stretch marks and all.
Did you get your belly molded during any pregnancy? If you had the opportunity to in future pregnancies, would you consider it?
