Garrett and Heather- Self Portraits! | Tacoma, WA Maternity Session | Heather Hurt Photography

I broke a lot of my own rules with a patterned dress, location that is not particularly meaningful, haircuts not fresh, and makeup I just did the best I could with myself. But the rules are “more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules,” especially when taking self portraits during a pandemic!

I don’t advise self portraits (or even last minute plans) for such a significant milestone, but honestly I really didn’t think I would want these. Maybe at most ONE just to have in case I cared later. This has been a very weird time to be pregnant and I have been feeling quite sick almost the entire time.  And I thought about the fact that even if I did want to, would I be able to hire anyone with whatever restrictions may be in place when it came time? But Garrett has taken such great care of me (and has even said it is a joy to do so) that as we came in to the home stretch I thought, “Gosh. We really should take some pictures to have of this time together”

So we picked a simple spot, I deemed the the hair day “good enough,” and we grabbed the tripod and remote trigger. The session was short but sweet. And a bit silly, because its hard to take myself seriously taking pictures of myself! Good thing Garrett was there to take the ones of just me, we make a good team. Hopefully that will apply to this whole parenting thing. One thing I know for sure, though, he is going to be such a great dad!