Pregnant = Amazing

Every mother-to-be should have the opportunity to see themselves through the eyes of photographer Delta Hunter of DA Photography. A Brooklyn, NY based portrait studio, DA Photography is where people come to take what Ms. Hunter describes as, “truthfully beautiful images.”

Delta has been photographing women, men and couples for many years and loves seeing their “individuality and honesty unfold in the portrait process.” But what she loves best she says, is “seeing how happy people are once they receive their portraits, and realize how much more they are than what they’re used to seeing in the mirror. Truly unique and divine beauty.”

Oh how I wish I had met Delta just a couple of years earlier than I did. If we had met when I was pregnant with my son, and I had been brave enough to allow her to focus her lens on me, then maybe I would have been able to see myself the way the bold, gorgeous women in these photographs look to me now. At the time, like so many women, I felt a wide range of emotions about my changing life and body. I was tired a lot but so happy. I felt excited and extremely anxious, along with complete joy. I was bloated… really bloated, but my swollen fingers and ankles didn’t seem to get in the way of feeling, at times, strong and empowered. My partner did his part to make me feel sexy and amazing and his loving attentiveness did the job of keeping me on an even keel a lot of the time. However, on the day that I realized I had better take my wedding band off now or have it cut off with something very sharp later, I do believe that if I had been able to see concrete evidence of how I felt on some of my better days, I would have been able to focus less on my fat fingers and more on all that pregnancy had made amazing.