WARNING: This post will contain graphic photographs. If you are uncomfortable with raw, birth photography…this post isn’t for you! Okay, for those of you so patiently waiting for part two… Thursday: That night around 9pm things started to get more intense and really from that point on Jessica was laboring heavily. Friday: Around midnight they called the midwife, Maria, and her apprentice, Meg, to come. They arrived and set up everything they needed. Important note here: Jessica had woken up at 4am Thursday morning and had not slept a wink since then! So, our original excitement that she would get to deliver the baby after a good nights…
The Waiting Is The Hardest Part: Bell Birth – Part One
I promised I would share my sister’s birth story from my perspective as a little sister, a mama, and a photographer…and some of you have been patiently waiting! I don’t really think it can be done in just one blog post, so I am going to split this up into a two day post…mainly because that’s how long the labor process took! A little background: Jessica’s first birth was an extremely long and difficult labor, then her second birth happened so quickly the midwife barely made it in time to catch her! I had in my head that this new baby would be quick like her second birth and I…
