Why would I want a birth photographer? Won't I look seriously triggered?

April 2018

WHY would you want to have your birth story documented?

Women in labour are much like cats. We like to go somewhere safe, dark, and where we feel comfortable so we can enter our zone and concentrate on the job to be done, undisturbed.

Why then would you want someone present WITH a camera, documenting all this?
Won't you look seriously triggered?? Feel exposed??

Well, there is a way to have this precious event documented, undisturbed and with the respect you need, so you receive a beautiful collection of clear images telling your story. 

But why? …..there are many reasons why.

Modern birth is becoming more and more “normalized”, which is simply brilliant! It needs to be. It is the most natural and beautiful empowering thing. It’s not something that should be kept secret or behind closed doors. By you telling and showing your story through movies and images, you can courageously share this with our future generations, steering them away from any preconceived fear of birth, and help make birth a positive and beautiful life event.

You will be able to look back on these images to see all you missed on the day. Labour can sometimes be a bit of a blur.  You can look back and see the love your partner had for you that day, the way they looked at you with a newly discovered admiration, the way they looked at their brand new son or daughter for the first time, full of emotion. Your eyes are full of tears so you miss all this, you only see snippets of these precious seconds. This love for this tiny bundle you have just made is immediate and a type of love that was completely undiscovered until right now at this moment.  Your support person will be in tears, I will be in tears.  This, to me, is the most important and powerful moment of a birth story.

Another reason is newborn bubs can change so super quickly from the moment they are in our arms.  Their little birthday suits of wrinkled, milky coated, purplish skin will start turning pink often in the first hour.  They can finally reach and stretch out of the fetal position, extend their fingers and see you for the first time.  Your images will bring this back to you.

Finally, and this is purely for you, you can look back on these images and see the strength and determination that you may have never known you had. You can see the protection for your child that you haven’t even met yet is already there.

You are capable of achieving amazing things.