06/17/2025
I needed these photos.
My past two pregnancies I have loved, I have been prepared for both mentally & physically & while there was a little anxiety about making it to 20wks, I or my husband could easily combat & send the anxiety away with a few words of reassurance or prayer.
This one I've battled with anxiety from day one. Being surprised, having to rearrange business plans, knowing my body was still recovering from the last pregnancy, guilt knowing people close to me were experiencing infertility & miscarriages - it's been a weighty thing.
My heart knows that this actually is no surprise, God has chosen this child to be carried & born at this particular time for a reason. My mind battles believing that the outcome ultimately does not rely on my own strength & that we would be blessed with another healthy pregnancy & baby girl.
Because of this it seems that anxiety has taken the joy from this pregnancy & I truly HATE that. I had grand plans to do weekly growth with the kids & other fun things but they just haven't happened as I've quickly become overwhelmed & filled with anxiety. I was ready to throw in the towel when I finally decided to do maternity photos in our pasture that is filled with daisies annnd we got attacked by mosquitoes & didn't get a single shot 💔
I felt like I was too late & too big but, to the rescue came Megan Hein Photography & her own gorgeous field of daisies with no mosquito swarms. These images remind me that there is joy, that anxiety is not the winner, that I do love being pregnant & that we are joyfully anticipating little sis' arrival.
Take the photos. If you don't appreciate them now you will look at them with much kinder eyes down the road
