My Birth Pictures

I have deliberated back and forth over whether I should share my birth photos with you. I worried about whether my readers would be turned off by it or that maybe it was showing too much of my vulnerability. I have decided to share them for the following reasons:

• *So you can see what natural, normal, ordinary birth is like.

• *So you can see the variety of positions that I labored in.

• *By providing this level of vulnerability you will know some of the most wonderful and intimate moments of my life and understand that, yes, I have been there.

• *A picture is truly worth a thousand words--you will see what I could never describe (although honestly even pictures or video could never capture the true essence of the experience.)

If you don't want to see the author of this website giving birth than please don't continue! If you do choose to read and view, my sincere desire for you is that it will cause you to decide on homebirth or will cement your homebirth plans.

For how we give birth not only profoundly affects our babies, it profoundly affects us forever as women. How we give birth affects our families and our cultures.

How we give birth affects the world.

This is when I was feeling the powerful "throwing down" surges.
The following pictures were taken about 2 hours after the first one and are pretty much in sequence up to her birth.

I felt like I couldn't put any pressure on my butt because her head was RIGHT THERE. You can see how I'm trying to explain what I'm feeling as I gesture with my left hand:)
I love this picture! You can see how focused and calm I became as I felt her head. From here it was about 10 minutes until she was born.


AMAZING!!!

You might be able to see a bit of the cord wrapped around her upper body.

Giving birth--one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life and

THE BEST EXPERIENCE EVER!!

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