29/04/2026
Dear bump 🕊️
Growing you has been a funny one, I always swore I’d never have another August baby after my first pregnancy feeling so difficult and here you are making it seem so easy, so far. Due just 3 days after your sister’s birthday, she might be protective over that day but she’s so excited and has a million names for you already.
After wishing for you for the longest time, it all still feels surreal until those butterfly kicks get me. Maybe it’s the sheer busy-ness of life this time, so I don’t get much time to stop and imagine who you’ll be and life when you arrive.
I’m not wishing time away as much as before, your room is still my office and everything sits in boxes and bin bags piled into a corner, but I’m craving the need to start washing the baby grows and putting things away so I can count everything another 30 times before we meet you. I imagine you to be chubby cheeked just like P, which means I’ve probably gone overboard on the newborn items once again. You’re probably just as hairy too, hello heartburn.
And then there’s the wonder of “will you fit right in?”, “have I left too much of an age gap?”, “will it be the most beautiful blessing in the world?”.
So many questions come with the second baby but I already know the answer because I’ve seen it a hundred times through photographing mum’s with their second, third, fourths. The magic of those sibling relationships.
Less than half way to go, a nursery to decorate, a house to renovate, a business to keep alive through the summer. And then there will be you. 🤍✨
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