Most women have never seen birth…until their own. We talk about how it may feel, what we may go through and our experiences. We even share stories and birth pictures. But what does birth really look like? What are our amazing bodies capable of? Growing a person with no detail forgotten to the moment of when our child is ready to separate from us physically and come earthside. What does THAT moment look like?
Well, Morag Hastings, a wonderful doula and photographer recently captured the details of the delicate, yet powerful moments of life beginning. The mother has given us permission to share. This was a first time mom and she had a great midwife. Baby boy was born 3 weeks early and was 8lbs 3 oz.
This picture is incredible. Art.
Look how mom reaches down and feels her baby’s head. So close!
Each picture captures the stages of crowning and baby being born.
This is birth.
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Beautiful!!!!! I just watched my grandson being born 8 days ago and it was a moment I will never forget….
Stunning photos! Having witnessed birth prior to giving birth to my own child, I discovered in the moment that my nephew joined us earthside, a sacredness that photography and storytelling can never convey. This is part of the reason I invited one of my best friend’s to my son’s birth. Since she has yet to give birth, I wanted to extend the same gift that my sister extended to me in allowing me to witness the birth of my nephew. I think witnessing birth, especially a natural one can be pivotal moment.
WOW Morag, these are incredibly photos!! Thanks to the mama for sharing them too!
Thank you Crystal!
im a midwife of over 19 years and IM ALWAYS blown away by birth i will never ever stop feeling privaladged each time i help a mumma bring their baby earth side.
Very interesting.. I never got to see what it looked like down there when I gave birth.. Too cool!
Amazing work by an amazing photographer! I wish I had seen images like this before my children were born. I think I might have felt more confident in the process. So glad people are investing in birth photography and capturing these moments that they would not be able to otherwise witness!
This is absolutely beautiful! Love, love, love!
I have goosebumps! Being a birthworker, it never ceases to amaze me — the moments like this one that were captured in photographs. Gorgeous! Thank you to the family who shared this with us all.
Birth is beautiful…especially when someone’s gloved hands aren’t on the emerging baby :/
Those photos are amazing. I have witnessed a few birth already plus my own two, but this one looks so calm, controlled and SOOOO Clean!
These pics are amazingly beautiful. I have chills, goose bumps n tears. When I did midwifery, being able to aid in a birth was a awsome experience for me.
wow
This has me in tears. Absolutely beautiful! I have witnessed a few births and am on #3 myself and I can honestly say that each birth is just as amazing as the last. My 7 year old asked me what I was looking at so I let her see. I thought she would be a little freaked out by it but she just said, “Wow! Is that how the baby comes?” I am very proud of her right now.
Simply amazing! What beautiful photos of such a beautiful event. I am always in awe of birth, no matter how many times I see it.
Beautiful photos Morag!
Wow! what amazingly beautiful pictures! It is so awesome how our body was created to birth in such a perfect fashion! Thank you for sharing!
Now, if only we could share these on facebook…:/
“…powerful moments of life beginning.” This young one was living long before his birth. It saddens me, that even in such a powerful world as the birth community, “we” still refuse to acknowledge that these miracles are life before they are born. Pregnancy is not simply “growing” a human inside of us, like growing a plant in a pot, but the very beginnings of motherhood and of nurturing our baby and of developing what sort of mother we will be.
These pictures are amazing. Congratulations to this mommy and big thanks to her for sharing these with the world.
True and it wasn’t meant in that way.
Great shots, as usual, Morag!
Morag, you are so amazing!!! These shots are incredible, National Geographic worthy.