Awestruck by the beauty and promise of a pregnant woman’s form, artist Tisha DeShields conceived Original Belly Works while pregnant herself. She realized that no gift could be more poignant than providing the expectant mother a way to preserve the splendor of pregnancy.

The belly cast is made so that the mom and baby will enjoy having a 3 dimensional view of mom’s transformation as she was expecting her new bundle of joy. Photographs only capture a flat 2 dimensional image.

How hard is it to do a belly cast?

The process is fun and easy. This can be a joint project with your husband, family, or friends. The wet plaster strips are applied to the mom ’s pregnant form. There is no need for messy mixing. After about 45 minutes, the cast is then removed from the torso. Once the cast is removed and has hardened, it can be left as is, decorated at home, or sent to Original Belly Works so that it may be transformed into a fiberglass work-of-art.