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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Kathleen Kernicky
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Jodi Williams' pregnancy keepsake sometimes draws curious looks.
It's a plaster cast of her belly, molded when she was eight months along, now hanging in her newborn's nursery.
"I wanted to have a physical reminder of what it was like to be pregnant," says Williams, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., whose belly cast was decorated in a surfing motif to match her son's room. "What a wonderful way to capture the experience."
Gone are the days when new parents bronzed baby's shoes as a precious memento. Today's moms and dads start the memory-making before baby is born: molding pregnancy belly casts or burning DVDs of high-tech ultrasounds that show baby smiling or sucking a thumb in the womb in real-time movement. Others are hiring professional photographers to take portraits of the mom-to-be late in the pregnancy and with belly exposed, a trend some say started with a very pregnant Demi Moore on the Vanity Fair cover in 1991....
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