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Hi, my name is Rebekah and I started my own photography business at the beginning on 2014. I am currently studying BA Hons in Photography and work part time in a retail/home store. I have taken photos for many years now and moved onto photographing people. I love capturing those special moments in peoples lives, including maternity and newborn.
See my most recent work on Facebook, then check out my site: www.rebekahcollinsphotography.
This particular maternity session had such a beautiful story with a very enormous journey, and Anne has allowed me to share her story with you:
“I have always wanted children, but a few years back there was a time when I began to think it would never happen. I have a condition which means I don’t have periods and there is no clear reason for why this happens, some theories suggest it’s something to do with the brain misfiring! Anyhow, after unsuccessful treatment with Clomid (it’s a drug that induces ovulation) I started a treatment called ovulation induction. This involves me injecting myself everyday with a concoction of hormones and drugs. The doctors at the fertility clinic would then take my blood and scan me to see whether I was growing an egg every couple of days. Whenever the egg reaches maturity myself and my husband then would have 3 days in which to try for a baby. (Not the most romantic experience!) We did this treatment for 9 cycles and it was both emotionally and physically draining, the hormones turned me in to a complete nightmare! On our last attempt at the treatment, we were told our next treatment would be ivf, I was gutted after over a year of treatment. Thank God though, on that last attempt we were successful and 9 months later our beautiful daughter Kamaia was born. I honestly can say I have never felt love like the love that I feel for my daughter. She’s almost 2 now and is the most amazing and beautiful child, she’s just so cute and funny I cannot get enough of her!
At the end of last year we started the ovulation induction treatment again. To be honest, as it had taken us a year to conceive with Kamaia, I held no great hopes. I had also decided that if it didn’t work for us that was ok, Kamaia is everything to me and I am so grateful to have had her, I didn’t want her not to have a sibling though. Amazingly after one cycle of treatment, we discovered that we are pregnant again! I could hardly believe the test, I feel truly blessed. This will be my last pregnancy though, which is why I decided to have the photo-shoot with Rebekah. It was amazing to capture me with my bump, since I had no nice pictures from my previous pregnancy. All I can say is at one point I really was facing the prospect of having no children, now I feel like I’m living the dream. I love being a mum and bring pregnant is pretty amazing too.”