Pregnancy Bump Transformation 🤰🏻👩🏻‍🍼

My Pregnancy Transformation Week by Week 🥹 A year ago today, I found out I was pregnant. My instant reaction was fear. Fear that my life was about to change forever. Fear that my dreams and ambitions would disappear. Fear that I would lose myself, hate pregnancy, and struggle with how much my body would change. For most of my life I had a complicated relationship with my body. Always trying to improve it, fix it, change it. Looking in the mirror and focusing on everything I wished was different. A constant cycle of loving it and criticising it. Pregnancy was the first time in my life I truly had to surrender to the process. My body was no longer something to control or critique. Gaining weight wasn’t something to fight against anymore, it became proof that my baby was healthy and growing. There were moments when I looked in the mirror and barely recognised myself, but there were also moments where I stood there in complete appreciation that my body was doing something extraordinary. Pregnancy has a way of holding up a mirror to you. It forces you to confront your fears, your insecurities and your expectations, while at the same time teaching you patience, vulnerability, how to slow down and to trust the process. For the first time in my life I learned to give myself grace and understand that life comes in seasons. To embrace the moment you’re in, because before you know it, it will pass. Watching this two minute video reminds me just how quickly everything moves. Every stage, every emotion, every moment goes by faster than you think. A year to the day later, I’m about to celebrate my first Mother’s Day. It feels like such a beautiful full circle moment, a reminder that the purest kind of love often lives on the other side of our biggest fears and doubts. One year ago I was growing a baby, unsure of what my future would look like. Today I’m growing alongside him, learning something new about love, patience and myself every single day. I still can’t believe I get to experience a love like this. ❤️