BellaBand^TM

Organic

us from being here at this table together. When we’ve done that emptying, we’ve created a space for relationship.

How o en do I come to the table full— full of the day’s activities, conversations with people, ideas and experiences that keep me from the creative emptiness that’s possible? at emptiness becomes a meeting space that I miss—unless I’m ready to be present. Have I le behind what is necessary in order to meet the children I love, and my beloved? Have I set aside the fullness of myself in order to make room to be met in that emptiness?

Our children know—they read me like a book. I’m pretty obvious, and as easy to read as Goodnight Moon or e Runaway Bunny. ey read my fullness and wonder where I am, why I’m not interested, how long it will take me to fully arrive. Over and over again, they invite me into the emptying life of fatherhood—the vast landscape and wide-open wonder of relationships.

It’s exhausting and exhilarating. Fatherhood takes me to places I never would have gone alone—those emptied places lled with life.

For more of a dad’s perspective, go to www.mothering.com/links and nd the Web exclusive “Parenting with the Weight of the Past,” by Craig Idlebrook, as well as links to Jeremy Adam Smith’s blog and our “New Baby” section for fathers.

Keith Reynolds is married to Je Farquharson; they have three children together, ages to . Living along Lake Huron in Southampton, Ontario, creates opportunities for Keith to jog, cross-country ski, and play percussion in the local community band.

Brittany: 25 weeks The BellaBand holds up her maternity jeans when her belly pushes them down.

Amber: 18 weeks She still wears her favorite pre-pregnancy jeans... unbuttoned!

Stephanie: postpartum She can wear too-big maternity and still-tight pre-pregnancy pants.

US Patent 7,181,775. © 2008 Ingrid & Isabel.

Just slip this little number on over
your unbuttoned pre-pregnancy jeans
or too-loose maternity styles.

Instant comfort. Instant hold. Instantly smooth.

More wear out of the clothes you already have means less consumption.

Organic Cotton means earth-friendly.

Sustainability and better-fitting clothes?

Now that’s a beautiful idea.

Yes, you look beautiful.^®

See our full collection at www.ingridandisabel.com