Birth doesn't follow a schedule.

There is no amount of manufacturing birth to make it happen faster, or slower; during morning hours or the afternoon. Those that try put themselves at risk for various problems or interventions. The art of physiological birth is just allowing your body to do what it needs to do, in the amount of time it needs to do it in.

As a birth photographer with a penchant for natural, physiological births - my schedule will always be tentative. I may have to leave whatever I am doing at any time of day or night to join a mother about to give birth, often without much of a warning.

I carry with me an external flash for those births that happen during the night, or in a room kept dark, but also will push my camera to it's limits if you find a bounced flash too distracting. My goal as a photographer is to capture your story as authentically as it unfolds.

This birth was mom's redemption home birth, after her first attempt ended in a non-emergent transfer to a hospital. Mom's partner couldn't be there for her, so her two best friends put on their matching uniforms and gave mom all the support she needed, while also ensuring dad got to be a part via face-time.