Mourning your belly and all the attention

Things to help you cope

• Belly casting: In addition to giving you the opportunity to keep a souvenir of a belly you can touch whenever you want, you can even ask your friends and family to write little notes of love and support on it which you can read when you’re feeling down. Places like Laissez-vous mouler! can do really beautiful models you can keep and cherish for years to come.
• Pictures, pictures, more pictures! : Turn yourself into a real top model during your pregnancy! Capture every moment so you can remember the evolution of your beautiful belly! Try our pregnancy journal, which will allow you to upload your pictures and even add comments about what you are going through during your pregnancy so you’ll have a digital copy you can look at whenever you want.
• Honesty is your best weapon: You can try to explain to the people around you that even though you understand – and share! – their excitement, you feel a little left behind and hurt. There is always a way to express your feelings without hurting the person you are speaking to. Remember that they probably aren’t trying to hurt you and don’t even realize that you are being affected by what they are doing.
• Know how to count on your partner: Talk with your spouse to explain what you are going through. He might help you put things in perspective, take care of things around the house so you can take time for yourself or offer a nice massage or a romantic dinner while the baby sleeps.
• Carrying baby or skin-to-skin contact: Our members are unanimous, what they miss the most is the unrivaled feeling of our baby moving inside our belly. When I was missing the feeling, I would put my baby on my tummy, skin to skin, and let her snuggle against me. The feel of her heartbeat and her little jerky kicks while she was sleeping would reassure me and always make me feel much better.