Our culture, our media, and our communities like to share the worst-case scenarios. Calm, peaceful, normal stories and situations are not as “exciting” as the dramatic ones. They don’t get as much attention. In birth, especially in home birth, we...
I knew that becoming a mom would by physically exhausting…the sleepless nights, the constant physical carrying, the taking care of and tending to needs…but I didn’t know how emotionally exhausting it would be. I’m an empath so I feel others’...
Sometimes conceiving a baby comes easily, “It happened the first try!” And sometimes it’s a struggle. Years of tears, options, money, doctor appointments, sleepless nights, shots, pills, miscarriages, anxiety, devastation, loss of hope, suspended...
Weddings are such a beautiful, well-crafted event to celebrate the making of a new family. It is so wonderful to celebrate, to create memories, and to document those memories! I photographed weddings for 9 years. I would argue that the birth of your child is also a...
One of the reasons (of which there are many) that I started doing birth photography 9 years ago was that I saw so many husbands taking photos during labor and birth; I saw a desire for the families to have photos of this experience but I wanted them to be able to BE...