Congratulations, Lynette.  Your work is stunning!

This mama’s story:
Three years ago, I couldn’t understand how I got so lucky to get everything I had ever wanted. We had been blessed with our amazing daughter, Delila my little mini-me. Then I got pregnant with our son, Denton, the boy I had so desperately wanted. My life was complete. But our Son passed away 5 days before our scheduled c-section. Perfectly healthy and so beautiful. Just a tragic umbilical chord accident.

I am now 7.5 months pregnant with our 3rd child, a girl we have named Sloane. And it is terrifying.

Up until now I had not taken any selfies in the mirror of my growing stomach. I had not purchased any newborn clothing, no sweet hair bows or nursery decor. Maternity photos were out of the question. If something were to happen to my daughter before she made it safely from my womb to my arms I figured it would be a lot easier to cope with another loss if there were no evidence of her having ever existed at all.

But then I remembered how I felt when I received the “edits” of my maternity photos when I was pregnant with my son. A friend of mine who had no real training or knowledge of photography, just a really nice camera had offered to take my maternity photos and I accepted. Every photo was layered with Instagram quality filters and vignette effects. I didn’t understand how with as beautiful as I felt while carrying him, that not a single photo captured that. And now, with him gone, I so badly regret not having professional photographs taken to look back on and remember such a special and beautiful moment in our lives.

That is why I accepted my friend Lynette’s offer to take maternity photos with Sloane. Her work is beautiful and pure and I owed it to my daughter and our family to capture what is another beautiful and memorable time in our lives. As scared as we are and as hard as it is to trust that everything will be ok, it would have been a regretful decision to not have beautiful photographs to document this special time in our lives.

These maternity photos mean the world to me. I look as beautiful as I feel. Lynette captured me exactly how I wanted to remember myself in this moment forever. The process was so helpful and therapeutic. Seeing my photographs helped me to embrace this pregnancy and to enjoy this time. For as scared as we may be, these are moments we cannot get back.

From the Artist | Hovering Heart Photography

This mama is one of the strongest most beautiful people I know. We met when I purchased her house and she had just had her first beautiful daughter. She literally just moved up the road and we stayed in touch and became friends. I became pregnant about 2 years later and shortly after so did she. She had complications getting pregnant the first time but this was a pleasant surprise since they were exactly trying! I was so over joyed for them.
After I had my son I was so excited for her to her her son too and it was about a week or so before her due date. She was going to have a scheduled C section and I text her asking her something and she text back with the horrible news that they had lost their baby boy. I can still remember where I was and the way I felt when i saw that text message. My heart sank for them. I didnt know what to do. I had never experienced anyone in my life with such a horrible thing happening to them.
There is nothing you can really do to help someone who has lost a loved one. You just have to have an open heart for them.
3 years have passed and I got pregnant with my second son and to my surprise so did she about 6 months later! I was so so excited for her. I told her we HAVE to capture this beautiful time in your life. This was my only way of really knowing how to give back to her. I am so glad she decided to capture her beauty. She is absolutely beautiful inside and out. As you will see in these images.