I don?t know how to be pregnant. Thankfully there?s an app for that. It uploads key dates into my calendar that notify me when I need to have ultrasounds, genetic tests, glucose screenings, anatomy scans? all the crucial medical requirements for a healthy pregnancy. Last week, an urgent notification popped up that said, in bold red type, ?BOOK MATERNITY PHOTO SHOOT.? As if booking a photo shoot was a prenatal prerequisite.
Wait, was it" I sat up and clicked:
Now is the optimal time to photograph your pregnant body. Book a skilled maternity photographer to capture the beauty, love and femininity of your pregnancy.

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The debate: Would you hire a birth photographer"

First of all, it would take a VERY skilled photographer with impossibly soft lighting and otherworldly Photoshop skills to capture any kind of beauty, love and femininity behind my seven months? worth of stretch marks, swollen appendages and varicose veins. Second, how is booking a maternity photo shoot presented with the same dire importance as booking a fetal heart rate exam" Is this really something a vast majority of pregnant women do"
One swift Google search showed me that yes, it really is. Since Demi Moore?s iconic Vanity Fair cover became the fir...