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Human babies are not the only kind of babies one can have, you know? You may have heard people calling a start-up, a novel, or a piece of art their ‘baby’. Because there’s a lot of ‘labour’ (pun intended) that goes behind all of these creations. So when this woman did a maternity shoot with her PhD thesis, people of the internet were like “SAME”!
Maternity shoots are the in-thing right now and PhD scholar Sara Whelan Curtis at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, thought it fitting to do one with her ‘brainchild’ – her thesis.

The one with the baby bump.

It’s a PhD!

People trying to have a career in academia would agree – getting a PhD is one of the hardest things one has to do. Imagine hundreds of hours spent in libraries, going through archives, tonnes of research, and a couple of years of unflinching hard work, making UPSC seem like a cakewalk.
Yes, I did a photo shoot with my thesis. Longest labor ever. #phdlife pic.twitter.com/wpGdFPANd6
— Sarah Whelan Curtis (@sarahwcurtis) June 4, 2019
So when Sara took on social media to post a so-called maternity shoot with her ‘bump’ and the thesis wrapped in baby blankets, netizens cheered for her! In addition to that, there were also others who have done similar things with their brainchild!
Congratulations! I am into the 66th month of labour and expecting soon.
— Kunal M (@ProfAntMan) June 4, 2019
Ugh the last forty months are the hardest.
— tinfoil crown (@annie_mcgarry) June 4, 2019
This feeling is real.
— Lonzen Rugira (@LonzenRugira) June 4, 2019
OMG SIS SAME ENERGY pic.twitter.com/38MubK9H2W
— cake entanglement (@alexjsator) June 4, 2019
No shame in the game! My wife kept her bound copy on our coffee table for years, positioned “just so.” ?
— Moon's Haunted ? (@Real_Moon_King) June 4, 2019
I intend to be this dramatic as well. Print it on curtains, durags, you name it.
— sam (@LWSupremeStreet) June 4, 2019
This is EVERYTHING!!!!!
This was my hand in photo. As I couldn’t bear the smiley normal photo as if I just casually wrote 130,000 words. No I was goddam showing the pain and torture too. Dragging myself to the finish line! pic.twitter.com/lh8lWtkANM
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) June 4, 2019
i think we should be friends lol
(congrats!) pic.twitter.com/KyOZCapNUl— vai pa onde? (@joydevision) June 4, 2019
I don’t know you but you’re a fucking queen
— Caroline O'Donoghue (@Czaroline) June 4, 2019
I am 100% “borrowing” your idea (with APA footnotes of course…). Given the amount of thesis weight I’ve gained this seems entirely appropriate. ???
— Lucy Sunman (@lucysunman) June 4, 2019
Enjoy it while it’s new. Mine is 35 years old and somewhat of a disappointment. I actually have no idea where it is.
— Mark Boslough (@MarkBoslough) June 4, 2019
Congratulations! By far the prettiest new born I've ever seen
— Sara. (@SGomezTrillos) June 4, 2019
To all the PhD scholars out there, you’re doing a wonderful job bringing up this ‘kid’!
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