Birth photography is an investment. An investment in yourself, in the opportunity to document your strength, your power and vulnerability. In the lasting testament to those moments of joy, intensity, and anguish, along with support, perseverance, love, wisdom, doubt, wonder, and awe. Birth is all of these things and even more…

As we approach the coming anniversary of my older daughter’s Birth Day, I’ve been thinking again about the value and importance of birth photography.

Reason #1: Evolution demands that we forget broad swathes of labor and so you won’t remember everything about this most significant and momentous process. The power of a photograph is that photos shape our memories of an event and experience when memory fades, and my role as a photographer is to curate your images to hold your memories.

I always knew that I was born at home and that there was documentation of the event, but I was in my mid-20s before I felt ready to watch the video – soundless, grainy and dark – and I wished that I had watched it sooner. Getting to see myself in those earliest moments of my own life was so incredibly surreal and marvelous.

Labor and birth are such dream-states, so profound and monumental - these birth photos are testament to the love and the work that can change the world. I am thrilled and honored to have been present when these kiddos made their entrance and to capture these moments when life was forever-after different for everyone involved.