Dedication.

The entire birth team and even family members are busy during a birth helping the birthing person as well as taking it all in. Giving any of them responsibility to photograph can cause undue stress and make them unable to be as present. Even if your family seems willing, the type of images you will get from a professional photographer are dramatically different. Photographers understand how to tell stories visually, taking a variety of pictures from a variety of distances and angles to create dynamic tales.

Connection.

Birth photography is more than just capturing the moment of birth. It’s about capturing the story of your entire day. The connections you have with your loved ones as well as those you’ve made throughout your pregnancy/gestation with your birth team.

Images of birth are possibly the most moving images you will ever have taken of your family and often they end up as blurry after thoughts snapped by nurses handed a camera at the last second, or teary-eyed birth partners caught up in the work of labor and emotions of meeting their child.

Preserving Memories.

All photographs are about preserving memories, and this is especially important in birth. The physical and mental journey a birthing person takes can twist time. Sometimes it can be hard to remember the birth the next day, let alone in a year or 10. Hiring a birth photographer frees you from the stress of remembering all the details of your birth yourself. You can relax and know that a storyteller is there, safeguarding your memories.