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Bellycasting gains popularity
Posted: 09.10.2009 at 5:51 PM
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Suzanne Wicklund started bellycasting five years ago for women around Marquette.

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MARQUETTE -- A Marquette woman who casts pregnant women's bellies says she's starting to get orders across the Midwest.

Suzanne Wicklund started bellycasting five years ago for women around Marquette.

Now, Internet sites like Craig's List have brought her customers from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.

Wicklund decorates each belly cast like a shirt, but sometimes she gets unique requests.

"I had the one woman that wanted a frog, so we turned the whole thing into a frog, and then I had another woman who loved the Packers, so I decorated it in Packers' colors," said Wicklund.

Wicklund said most women hang them in the nursery or as artwork.

Each belly cast costs $100.