You want photos from your birth, right? Of course you do! The question is: should you hire a professional or just have your friend (or sister, mom, or whoever) photograph your birth? Everyone has a halfway decent camera in their pocket nowadays, so why not ask everyone to grab some photos to remember the day […]

Today I want to suggest an idea I don’t know if you’ve thought a lot about before: Connecting with your baby during labor. Labor is really hard work (news flash). So it’s natural to simply focus on what you need to do to get through each contraction. And of course there’s absolutely nothing wrong with […]

You’re pregnant! (Ha, you don’t need me to tell you.) You have another human person inside you! You’ve never seen them, never heard them, can’t quite touch them (though you feel their movements), but you will do all those things soon, and this person is going to be a major part of your life forever […]

And why might you want it? While there are almost as many styles of photography as there are photographers, you can make some larger generalizations. When it comes to newborn photography I consider there to be two main groups: styled/posed and lifestyle. You’d probably recognize both, but let me tell you a little more about […]

Or… Why would I ever want to print my birth photos?? Birth photos are so intimate, right? Why would you want them printed? Should you even print birth photos? Maybe you really want to have birth photos, but like, just to have them. They’re in your phone files somewhere or on a USB maybe and […]

I’m constantly trying to tell people about the astounding shift that happens at the very moment a mother’s baby is finally born. There’s a mind-boggling amount of things going on in your baby’s body (and your own body), but that’s info for another time. I’m talking about your immediate, personal experience. There is this minute […]

This birth story is a on the more unique side since it shows a birth that begins in a birth center and the couple tranfers to the hospital for a cesarean. You may have wondered what that experience would be like! People planning a birth at a birth center or at home are often concerned […]

Would it be helpful to you to see a whole birth story in photos? Perhaps you’d like to see what a beautiful hospital birth could be like. Or maybe you’re curious about hiring a birth photographer and want to know what the whole gallery would be like, rather than just the highlights that you see […]

Would it be helpful to you to see a whole birth story in photos? Perhaps you’d like to see what a homebirth could be like. Or maybe you’re curious about hiring a birth photographer and want to know what the whole gallery would be like, rather than just the highlights that you see on Instagram. […]

One of the best compliments I ever got (aside from that one in college from my now-husband who said I looked like “springtime incarnate” and look where we are now) was from my midwife after my fourth birth. I was remembering how absurdly intense the pressure felt during pushing and I wondered how typical that […]