Yesterday we showed you a beautiful photo of a veiled delivery (the baby born with an intact amniotic sac) by Leilani Rogers, a photographer specializing in childbirth and breastfeeding in Austin, Texas, and taking advantage of the fact that we talked to her and told us what she felt when he did it he showed us a few more photos, to be more concrete fourteen, which can sum up perfectly how amazing a birth is for both mother and father and baby.
1. Everyone helps
In this birth even the eldest daughter wanted to lend a hand. It was where his mother was dilating and He wanted to help her in some way. For the mother it was a beautiful gesture, very comforting, and a show of love from her daughter, helping her to bring her little brother home.
2. The emotion of being born, also with caesarean section
This photo is the first time Leilani was able to enter an operating room to photograph a cesarean birth. Until then they had not allowed it and many clients had run out of memories of the birth of their baby. And it does not stop being that, the birth of a baby, equally exciting, for being his first seconds in life, his arrival in the world, the culmination of a 9-month wait, the power to finally embrace him.
3. Another finger to cling better to mom's
It is a rare condition (polydactyly) that is intervened by eliminating the excess finger, but this baby was born with 6 fingers in one hand, surprising everyone present, to better hold his mother's finger.
4 and 5. You are finally here
One of those images that do not need many words to describe them. Emotion, pain, love, tiredness, hope, happiness. It must be one of the few moments in life when all those emotions, and more, conjugate in a single instant.
And this, exactly the same. Even the father, with what little is seen, is showing his emotion for the moment.
6. Welcome baby
You don't know much about this world. You've just arrived. You will suffer many times for not knowing what happens and you will cry for not knowing how to ask us what you need. But calm, because just like now, in our arms, you will be fine, and because we will do the possible and the impossible for fill you with heat and love to make your life as happy as possible.
7. Bathing together
They say that the floral baths are very relaxing because of the smell that flowers give off, and that they also help to heal the woman's perineum within 24 or 48 hours after delivery. I don't know if this is true or not, but a calm bath in the water with the right temperature can be very pleasant for both the mother and the baby, which makes her feel again as when she was in the womb, floating in the liquid amniotic.
8. Born in the hospital
And giving birth in the hospital. For some people it seems colder or more distant than a home birth, but it is still (or should be) the moment when the baby quickly passes from the mother's womb to her breast, with a professional as an intermediary. The mother's arms say it all, waiting to finally hug her baby.
9. Dad, mom and you
Few children, few people, can say that they came into the world from the hands of their mother and father, that they were the first to take him and the ones in charge of welcoming them to the world. This baby can do it.
10. "I know you can"
In this case we are not talking about a mother with her midwife, but about a mother with her partner, who is also a doula, and a labor that lasted no less than 35 hours. But we talk about the same thing, about a woman who at times wants to throw in the towel and give up and someone who encourages you, supports you and helps you move on: "I know you can", "you are doing great", "it is amazing to see the strength you have", "your baby is very lucky", "bravo", ...
11. The cord that still unites us
That incredible moment in which the baby has just been born and is still attached to the mother by the cord. They are two different people, but at the same time they remain one, because the cord is still beating and the baby is still receiving food from mom. It only lasts a few moments, but it doesn't seem easy to forget.
12. The two, in peace
Mom in peace with her baby, full happiness, finally together, the greatest love that exists in the smallest size, that of a baby's body. And he in peace also with mom, happy and calm in his arms, without needing anything more than its heat, its smell and its affection.
13. We also suffer
Obviously not in the first person in the same way as the baby and the mother, but for them. In this picture Dad decided it was a good idea to pray for his wife, look for something to hold on to feel that he was doing something for her, for both of them.
14. The incredible placenta
One of the protagonists of everything, and the one that receives less affection in the equation. It is responsible for caring for and feeding the baby throughout the pregnancy and also deserves recognition. Therefore, I suppose, the Maori have it in great appreciation and call it the same way they call the earth, in addition to burying it in it, as returning it to Mother Earth.
