{"id":18394,"date":"2025-12-10T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18394"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:47:40","slug":"want-a-3d-pregnancy-sculpture-why-hong-kong-based-mother-helps-women-get-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18394","title":{"rendered":"Want a 3D pregnancy sculpture? Why Hong Kong-based mother helps women get theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mother-of-two Samantha Waterhouse thrived during her pregnancies \u2013 they were times when she was most comfortable in her body.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI didn\u2019t have any aches or pains like some women do, so I felt lucky that it was a time in my life that I really enjoyed,\u201d says the Hong Kong-based South African, who has two girls: Ella, aged four, and Izzy, two. \u201cAnd I loved the look and feel of my round tummy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">She loved her baby bump so much that she considered getting a bespoke pregnancy sculpture. Such keepsakes capture a woman\u2019s unique curves and creases during pregnancy and turn them into pieces of art using <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">3D scanning technology<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Waterhouse says that, at the time, the service was only available in the UK and Australia, and not in her adopted city.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to fly to the UK to get it done, but I held on to the concept, which I think is really beautiful, really special.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-12vv9w2 e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Samantha Waterhouse with her two daughters. Photo: The Bump Collective\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/09\/f7b301ef-f11e-430c-a20a-2f7f10f98571_ccc52933.jpg\" title=\"Samantha Waterhouse with her two daughters. Photo: The Bump Collective\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Samantha Waterhouse with her two daughters. Photo: The Bump Collective<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last month, she took the idea a step further by launching The Bump Collective, a studio that offers these one-of-a-kind sculptures in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3335694\/want-3d-pregnancy-sculpture-why-hong-kong-based-mother-helps-women-get-theirs?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother-of-two Samantha Waterhouse thrived during her pregnancies \u2013 they were times when she was most comfortable in her body. \u201cI didn\u2019t have any aches or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3724,3569,12339,1432,12337,12338,274],"class_list":["post-18394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-helps","tag-hong","tag-kongbased","tag-mother","tag-pregnancy","tag-sculpture","tag-women","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}