Overcoming PCOS: A Photo Session with Jennifer Adams

Last weekend, a photographer I go to church with offered to do a unique maternity photo session centered around the PCOS awareness jewelry I blogged about earlier this year. Jennifer did a wonderful job and was so much fun to work with. You can follow her photography journey here: Jennifer Adams Reflections.

This is the intro posted on her blog:

It was such an honor to be apart of this growing families life, and to be there through some of their times of going through these obstacles. Mom to be was so excited to start adding to her beautiful family, but soon found out that it was going to be a little longer and harder than she thought. She soon found out that she had a condition called, PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome). After finding an amazing doctor and having a wonderful support system from her family, friends and church family, she stayed strong and embraced this full force.

Well fast forward to now, she has over come PCOS and is now happily expecting her first miracle, expecting a girl in spring of 2010. So this session was a special session to celebrate the bravery and faith in overcoming this and being able to move forward with this beautiful miracle showing that all things are indeed possible!

Thank you mom and dad to be for allowing me to document these moments in your life, here is a little sneak peak and I will talk to you soon…

Dance, Baby, Dance! + My Growing Belly

My little avocado baby started moving this week. I think of David Bowie in the movie The Labyrinth when he's dancing with the baby and all the goblins... yeah, I know, kind of odd, but I keep talking to the baby and telling it to dance for me so I can feel something. Tuesday, day one of 16 weeks, I started to feel a pushing sensation on the lower right side of my belly while driving home from work. I was listening to Jeremy Camp in the car. Moments later, I felt it again a little higher. I think baby is a fan. ;) I wasn't sure if it was really the baby until it happened again yesterday and today. Now I'm sure. Baby is moving in there. I can officially document fetal movement beginning at 16 weeks. :)

I've also been told that I have been a slacker on the belly pics... so here you go... enjoy!

5 weeks

10 weeks

13 weeks
15 weeks