Ages ago, whilst shopping in what felt like the world's biggest Mothercare shop, I went wandering off and found one of these kits for 'moulding a bump' - basically, a Plaster of Paris set to take a mould of the belly... fantastic.
Amazingly, Claire didn't whisk it out of the shopping basket and so we bought it for £16 or so, and since then it's sat in the back of a wardrobe, as her 'bump' wasn't that impressive. With the recent comments of the midwife that the sprog can appear at any time, Claire mentioned the kit and this morning, we used it.
The box didn't have any instructions, but found this set of instructions to taking a real-life cast on the internet literally 5 minutes before, which sort-of saved the day, as it certainly wasn't how I was thinking that I was going to do it..!
Anyway, I was hoping to get a few mid-action photos, but Claire wasn't really that impressed with the idea of me taking a photo of her standing very-nearly-naked in the bathroom wearing a plaster of paris cover on her belly, especially as she knew I wanted to put them on here!
Actually, it was a good job that no-one saw us, as I particularly looked a bit dodgy sporting the surgical gloves that come in the pack and with bandages, towels and water everywhere except where it needed to be.
All good fun, but it took at about an hour to do in total and the cast is still drying as I write this now.
It does look a bit weird, but the result is great. I just need to find a way of hanging it on the wall or something, as it's quite fragile.
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