I decided to get a little creative today and made a belly timeline of some of my pics. It's so crazy to see how much I've grown. It's still hard for me to grasp that there is a baby in there and that I'm going to become a mom in just a few months. When will it seem real?!

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You're still so tiny!!

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Oh wow! You are sweet! I feel so huge! It's hard for me to imagine getting any bigger and I know I will!

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You look great! Isnt it fun to look at your belly and think about the baby in there growing bigger and bigger. Its so cool b/c it wont be much longer and we can meet our little ones face to face! So exciting!!

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Dh Jason
My babies...
Katherine Elizabeth 6/04/04
Samuel Lee 5/04/05 (our son with God)
Griffin Michael 04/13/06
Harrison Gabriel 04/27/08



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Carley, I love the timeline! I never take belly shots. As for when will it feel real?... for me it didn't feel "real" until I held Kate. That first time I held her I was overcome with so much emotion it was crazy. For the first two weeks, almost everytime I looked at her I cried because I was so happy.

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--Kristina

Good for you taking pictures and documenting the progress...

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Erin -38 DH Marc -34
TTC #1 Since April 2004
My IVF Miracle Brooke Jai born May 2nd, 2008

You look great!! Love your timeline. My experience was much like Kristina's. The moment the Dr. handed me my little baby, I vividly remember what her little baby body felt like in my hands. It was finally "real" then! I will never forget that moment. And like Kristina, I was very emotional for weeks after I had her. Actually, to tell you the truth, I still tear up sometimes when I look at my "baby," and she is 2 1/2 years old!

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Ann-Marie

I LOVE your pics!!!! ITs great to see the progression!!! I have done the same thing….but I need to get my butt in gear as I am now over due for my 32 week pic….oops….LOL

I am with you on the "when will it feel real" thing!!! I can feel the baby more and I am so excited for her arrival but its still so abstract and "not real"....its truly an odd feeling.

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Amanda, James & Sweet Mackenzie

7/17 -3rd Laparoscopic Surgery for Endometriosis
8/07 femara & ovidrel First Cy..... 8/24/07
(After trying for 6 years on and off)

you look great! You really popped out between the last two pics

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Dean (30) & Janice (27) Married May 27,2000

Our first princess: Tirzah Liberty November 6,2003!
Our baby in Heaven "Little Miracle" lost at 4wks July 6, 2004.
Our little "Angel Boy" Zion Courage arrived July 9, 2005 8lbs 7oz (2wks early)
Beautiful little Azlan Honor born September 13, 2006 8lbs 4oz (1 wk early)
Princess Azahria Peace born April 26, 2008 7lbs 12oz (2 wks early)

Our colorful family~little Azahria at 16days old

You are so very cute! It looks like Tatum had a little growth spurt from 23 to 27 weeks...thats your biggest growth! And from the looks of it you may get out without stretch marks on your belly (yay!)...can you say from-pg-to-beach-wear-by-summer?

TFS!

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Derek (DH), Derek II (DS), Sammy (DS)

Allison Rene
May 13th 2008
7 lbs 6 oz & 20 in long

Awww, look at her grow! That's cool.
I'm getting to that point where I can't believe I can stretch this much!

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lol Carley, I'm with ya! everyone has been telling me I'm so small for so far along, but i feel gigantic!

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Sarah & Natalie

Great pics!! I love the progression series...I should try to piece one together sometime!

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Carley,
You look awesome!!! I l love the time line progression. I've done the same thing with all of my pregnancies and it is so fun going back to compare what I looked like with each pregnancy. You will be so thankful that you took pics once your pregnancy is over. I love taking trips down memory lane and looking at all my photos. Plus the kids get a kick out of my pics when I tell them that was them in my belly.

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Aww! Love it!! You look fantastic! It still doesn't seem real for me yet either! I just can't wait to see her and have her in my arms!

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you look great! You really popped out from 23 to 27! How cute! I should make one but i dont know i took that many pics. lol

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Very cute! I think we all "pop" out in our last trimester the most... I will have to put one together too..

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that's funny to me because I am trying to avoid camera's like the plague. But then again, I don't have your tight beautiful skin Carly! Maybe when I had my first...

For us it didn't seem real even when we brought our baby home (the first). I remember looking at our apartment that we had lived in for so long by ourselves, and now there was this baby in there too and we had no idea what to do with him! it's such an odd feeling. Good, but really odd

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Could you be any more adorable?!?!

Thanks for sharing -- you look great!

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Amanda

You look great, it is a neat thing to have a belly timeline, I have lot of belly pics, but not in an organizede time frame... they are random taken... Congrats!!!

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Celina