Bonnie,
Sweetie, don't worry that you have only 3 photos. They will be your treasure forever. When Joshua was born he didn't have any fat deposits under his skin, so he came out really bruised, and in the photos he looks quite dark. To me he still looks perfect, and if anybody feels uncomfotrable looking at his photo, tough. His little button nose is a lot lighter though. My DF's niece visited a few months ago (she's 11), and although she knew we lost Joshua, she looked at his photo and asked 'Who is this black baby?' I wasn't upset with her, I just explained what happened to him during birth and she understood.
I was actually thinking of getting an artist draw a picture of Joshua, only bigger so I can hang it on the wall. Also, as he was only 20 weeks gestation, I would love a photo of him at full term. Apparently, you can bring a photo of your partner when he was a baby and the mum's baby photo and of course the baby's photo, and he puts all the images together and comes up with a image of what the baby would have looked like at full term.
Some artists are juts so good, their drawings are beautiful. The thing I don't have, and I so wish I did, are photos of my pg belly. Why I didn't take any I don't know. I have a handful of photos of me while I was pg, but they are all above my belly!!!!
Bonnie, there are a lot of things I wish I had of done too, but I was so grateful the midwife just knew what to do as I was in shock and wouldn't have thought of half the things she did for me. But we can't turn the clock back, we have to be happy with what we have.
Big hugs hunni
Beata xxx
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