![]() “I remember crying while holding my 3-day-old baby about how he was going to go off to college so soon and leave me. While Greenheart prepared for the logistics, challenges and possible setbacks of having a child during her first pregnancy, she hadn’t really considered all the positives that she would experience along the way-including the immeasurable love she would feel for her child. The love that overtook me the months following the birth were overwhelming to say the least.” What I had been physically preparing for was nothing compared to what my heart was silently preparing for. My acceptance of the journey ahead and trust in the process overcame the fear. So as my body grew, my anticipation and excitement grew. “But the beautiful thing about the prenatal months is that you don’t just become a mom overnight. “It took me 10-years with my partner before I was ready to take that leap into the unknown next chapter of growing a family,” she shared. She explains that she was scared to become a mom for a long time, afraid that having a baby would sidetrack her own selfcare, career, goals, creativity and time. ![]() We wanted to capture the transformation from pre-baby to post baby for curiosity, fun, and remembrance.” “This video is an expression of that expansion. “Being pregnant is such a transformative experience, literally for the body as well as for the heart and mind,” she tells The Bump. The almost minute-long video shows Greenheart at each week of pregnancy and ends with a sweet shot of her newborn in her arms where her bump used to be. They took over 100 photos every week for 33 weeks in their living room home studio. Together, they documented how her body changed with a time lapse starting at 9 weeks and going through 42 weeks. “I don’t know of a way to document how much the heart expands through having a child… but here’s a beautiful documentation of how my body transformed to hold our little love nugget (of whom we nicknamed Gummy Bear while in the womb),” she wrote in the caption of the video. Kelly Greenheart and her husband are both documentary filmmakers and wanted to document one of their biggest adventures yet. ![]() But one mom believes that while it may seem like the main transformation during pregnancy is happening physically, it’s actually happening inside the heart, particularly for first-time moms-and she documented her journey. Even the human brain helps women prepare for motherhood. The human body does some amazing things like move around organs and bones during labor to account for baby. The way a woman’s body changes during pregnancy to accommodate baby is nothing short of amazing.
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