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Giving birth is surely one of the most intense & overwhelming things that can happen in a woman’s life. A moment so powerful and vivid, full of so many different feelings. Your body and mind are full of love, pain, anger, happiness, fear, and hope. A special event that can hardly be described in words if you have never experienced or witnessed it. Even though it sometimes takes hours for everything to be over, it often feels like a split second once a newborn baby finally sees the light of day. This is the reason why Birth Photography is becoming more and…

Gayla Thompson, a 29-year-old photographer in Nashville, delivered her son in the passenger seat of her Jeep after a traffic jam kept her from making it to the hospital. Gayla Thompson’s first experience with childbirth, five years ago, went smoothly. It was a natural birth, she tells Health: Her water broke, and then 10 hours later, her son was born. But when it came time to plan the birth of her second child, whose due date was June 21, she made other preparations. “I want two or three epidurals,” Thompson, 29, a photographer based in Nashville, says, reflecting on her…

It’s really fun to watch a baby move. Especially when it’s your own baby! When they stretch and move around a lot it does get uncomfortable but I wouldn’t say painful. Labor pains are what’s painful! But, once your sweet baby is in your arms, the pain doesn’t seem so bad. It’s all worth it, for sure! The unconditional love you have is amazing! 1. There’s about to be a new Conehead in town. 2. E.T.’s little brother. He’s in there phoning home.       3. The Incredible Hulk’s got nothing on this fetus.. 4. This mom swallowed a watermelon seed…

There are ultrasound machines that can show a 4D view of our baby’s face at like, 12 weeks. So if you don’t have to wait 40 weeks to find out whether you’re having a boy or a girl, most people won’t. Not to mention the elaborate gender reveals that the Internet could not survive without. When it came to welcoming her second child into the world, Dara Crouch decided to go “old-fashioned.” The 29-year-old from Columbus, Georgia, wanted to leave the gender of her second child a surprise. Nobody on her mother’s side of the family had given birth to…

One story you may have heard is about a baby being born “in the caul.” This means the baby was born with his or her face and head, and sometimes torso, covered in a thin membrane from the amniotic sac. A very rare situation is when the caul is made from non-amniotic tissue. This type can leave scarring on the baby if the membrane isn’t removed slowly and carefully. Another variation is for the baby to be born completely encased in the amniotic sac. This event is called being born “en caul” and, although it seems more extraordinary, is more…

Most people believe getting ᴘʀᴇɢɴᴀɴᴛ is a simple, natural process. However, this is not always the case: being able to fall ᴘʀᴇɢɴᴀɴᴛ is the end output of ᴀ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇx process. And when it happens, we can truly speak of “ꜰᴀᴛᴇ” intervening. Dayna Childress knows this very well. She is a young 28-year-old mother who, after the ʙɪʀᴛʜ of her first child, Lincoln, ᴛʀɪᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ sᴇᴄᴏɴᴅ ʙᴀʙʏ, but without any success: ᴜɴꜰᴏʀᴛᴜɴᴀᴛᴇʟʏ, Dayna sᴜꜰꜰᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴄᴏɴsᴇᴄᴜᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs. Dᴇsᴘᴇʀᴀᴛᴇ, the stay-at-home mother was ᴘʀᴇsᴄʀɪʙᴇᴅ ꜰᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴅʀᴜɢs, which she took for another year before she ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇɪᴠᴇᴅ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ. At five weeks,…

A woman has ʙɪʀᴛʜᴇᴅ her baby girl on the water’s edge at a beach, supported by her ᴅᴏᴜʟᴀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴏʙsᴛᴇᴛʀɪᴄɪᴀɴ in what she describes was a “natural and ecological ʙɪʀᴛʜ.” Maria Luna, who is herself a doula, shared videos of her ɪɴᴄʀᴇᴅɪʙʟᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀꜰᴜʟ ʙɪʀᴛʜ on social media and explained how she prepared for the unique ʟᴀʙᴏᴜʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʙɪʀᴛʜ. she wrote in the comments of her video: “Today was the day, the expected day, we lived our natural, physiological, ecological ʙɪʀᴛʜ, in the place we dreamed, with wonderful details from Gᴏᴅ to live it and with the ideal company. Every…

Birth photography is an incredibly intimate and powerful art form. To honor this work and the families who choose to document and share these vulnerable moments, the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers holds an annual photo contest. These photos capture intimate, miraculous moments that show human life does go on, despite the hardships we’ve all faced in the past couple of years. We are still in awe of the way families trust a photographer to document this profound moment in their lives. On Wednesday, the IAPBP announced the winners of its 11th annual Birth Photography Image Competition, which celebrates…

Babies sometimes come exactly when and how they want to come. A woman was planning a waterbirth at the birth center she worked…but her sweet baby decided to come fast and furious while she was laboring at home. They drove into the birth center to deliver the placenta, which came out only a few minutes after arrival. Along with shock, there was a lot of laughter. Our pregnancies and births can teach us so much about letting go. Births that occur outside of a hospital, birth center, or planned home birth with an attending midwife are rare, but they do…

A mother who gave birth to an 11lb baby jokes that her son looked ‘ridiculous’ because newborn clothes were too small for him – and he’s already as big as a three-year-old ahead of his first birthday Sarah Dines, 35, gave birth to her first child, Montague, who is now 11 months old and weighs 11lbs 8oz, making him the typical size of a newborn three months old. He started wearing toddler clothes right away and is currently wearing clothes for youngsters aged two to three. Teacher Sarah initially wanted a water birth at her home in Broadstone, Dorset, without…

It was love at ꜰɪʀsᴛ sɪɢʜᴛ. Whether they were newly minted grandparents or made a grandma and grandpa four times over, these relatives were overcome with ᴊᴏʏ at the sight of their grandchildren—and those emotional meetings were all caught on camera. We firmly believe that few things in this world are more touching than the sight of a grandparent meeting their young grandchild for the first time. That moment when a face aged by decades of love lays eyes on the newest member of the family and floods with emotion. It is always a wonderful and special moment when children…

If it’s not your job and you have no experience doing so, helping someone deliver a baby is a daunting and terrifying task. For most, it would have them so out of their depth that they would be far too overwhelmed to do more than panic for several minutes! But for Hunter, just three years old, this idea is beyond exciting. That’s why when her mother, Rebecca Joseloff, knew her son would be born soon, she wanted little Hunter to be there when she gave birth. So she and her family arranged to have a very special sort of delivery…

Young Kristen, who is expecting twins, shares her pregnancy journey through videos on Tik Tok and is loved by her audience as she has a sense of humor and is very honest. Kristen is due to welcome two new arrivals into the world any day now and has been taking to TikTok to share bump date videos. In one, she was enjoying an iced beverage while showing off her huge stomach in a cropped top and joggers. Over the top, she’d written: “Mummy is ready to meet her babies like yesterday.” Even though she’s carrying twins, Kristen’s belly is so…

On May 24, before reaching the hospital, a Nevada woman gave birth in the front seat of a moving car. And all this happened in front of her husband (who was driving) and three children. At the request of his father, the 10-year-old son filmed the whole process on video, which later appeared on the network, sʜᴏᴄᴋɪɴɢ the public. American Rudy Napier was expecting her fourth child, a little girl named Jolee. On May 24, Mike Anthony Addison took his wife Rudy Napier to the clinic. This was supposed to be the last scheduled checkup before the birth. But along…

Dania’s photos capture the magic of birth. Dania is a professional maternity photographer and mother of four. She and her husband are the ones behind all the photos that can be seen on the Lauren and Douglas Instagram profile. The couple says about the name they chose for their brand: “The name ‘Lauren and Douglas’ came about 15 years ago when we put our middle names side by side and thought if we did something our own one day it would be a cool business name.” Both love to photograph the “raw beauty of life,” as they say. Dania deals…

A woman went into labor on her way to the maternity hospital in the US. Father recorded the arrival of the four-kilogram baby, Josiah Benjamin. It could be fiction. But the adventure lived by the couple from Texas, USA, Lesia, and John Pettijohn, is incredibly real. The two had been on the road for approximately 45 minutes towards the maternity hospital in Pasadena, but the baby did not want to wait and was born inside the car. The couple had no cell phone to call for help, and Lesia told John to keep driving while she went into labor: “I…

Whether you want to share your baby’s newborn photos on social media, make a photo book, or go old school and send out birth announcements, capturing those newborn photos in the first 24 hours of their life is critical. I promise you’ll forget how tiny those hands and toes were after a while – especially when they’re demanding their fifteenth snack in an hour when they’re preschool-aged. It’s guaranteed you’ll want to look back at these photos and remember how you felt, how your partner and the grandparents felt, and how your baby looked, to warm your heart and probably…

Monet Nicole captured the before and after of the baby. Monet Nicole is a midwife and a world-renowned professional birth photographer. On Instagram, her followers exceed 150 thousand, and each of her posts gathers thousands of likes. The photographer has attended hundreds of births, and her account on popular social media is an album full of breathtaking photos. Mothers who give birth in a maternity hospital, on the water, at home, with a natural birth or cesarean section. Newborns with fetal sebum seconds after birth. Fathers who are present at the birth and assist in the birth of their child.…

Jamie and Skyler Scott got married in 2004 and soon welcomed their first child, Shayden, who was born in 2005. A few years later, Jamie gave birth to her second son, Landon. For five years, the couple desperately tried to have another baby.   Photo credits: FiveTwoLove They searched for a fertility specialist and during the second round of treatment, they hit the jackpot — but maybe not in the way everyone expected. At just 19 weeks, Jamie already looked nine months pregnant! Her bump had gotten so big so quickly that she could no longer walk and needed a…

Tracey Smith, 31, feared she would never have a child of her own until her mother offered to act as a surrogate. Her mum Emma Miles, 55, shed six stones to reach a healthy weight to get pregnant – and gave birth to a healthy baby Evie. Tracey said: “Every moment of heartache was so worth it just to have our little bundle in our arms. “I am so grateful to mum for her amazing gift to us.” It was discovered that Tracey was missing her reproductive organs when she was 15 years old and still hadn’t started her period.…