I don't know much about having babies. I don't have any of my own, only really nieces and nephews and I stayed a pretty good distance from them too, I think for their safety, until they were grown up a little. I am fascinated with the connection mother's and fathers have with the unborn child. the few maternity portraits I've made the father touching the belly or listening to the belly has been a pretty neat experience---there is real love there for someone they haven't really met yet. Pretty neat actually. Moms of course feel the connection as they feel every move the baby makes. I have photographed Janae several times over the last two years. Recently she began growing a baby in her belly and during a recent shoot for a client where Janae was the model, we took a few moments to make an 18 weeks maternity shot or two. We're going to try to get together a couple more times before the baby comes to document her progression. Maybe even after the baby comes! SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer.