CNN anchor Kasie Hunt explained that she planned to have her daughter delivered via cesarean section. Looks like the newborn had other plans! The BIRTH of a child is always a happy event, but some pregnant women do not always have the opportunity to give birth in ideal conditions, and many of them do not even make it to the maternity ward. This is exactly what happened to CNN anchor Kasie Hunt, who posted on Instagram how she gave birth to her second child, a girl named Grey, on the bathroom floor. On Mar. 3, CNN’s chief national affairs analyst…
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Dayna Childress, 28, from the US state of Ohio, and her husband Colby, 27, were excited to try for their first child in 2015 and were overjoyed to discover that after just a month of trying to conceive, Dayna was pregnant. Photo credits: Dayna Childress The pregnancy went well and the couple’s first son, Lincoln, was born in December 2015. When Lincoln was nine-months-old, Dayna and Colby decided to try for another child because they wanted Lincoln to have a sibling close in age. After six months of struggling to conceive, Dayna started to fear she wouldn’t be able…
A mum who gave birth with the help of her daughter says having her child by her side was a “no-brainer” – but not everyone agrees. A mum of two has shared her birth story with the world after allowing her two-year-old daughter to help her give birth to her younger brother in a birthing pool at home. Ariel Haynes, 23, from Colorado in the US, explained the circumstances of her birth experience, adding that although people have told her that including her toddler in the birth was child ᴀʙᴜsᴇ, she wouldn’t have it any other way. Haynes, a birth…
Birth at home through the lens of Monet Nicole Monet Nicole is a midwife and professional birth photographer. She has attended over 100 births, and her photos are often making the rounds on the internet. The photographer’s Instagram profile has over 150 thousand followers. There she publishes snapshots of births at home, in the maternity hospital, and in the water. At the same time, she shares her own experiences and stories of mothers, extolling the ultimate miracle, that of birth. She also writes on her website that she considers childbirth one of the “powerful” and special life experiences that changes…
Second labors tend to be shorter than firsts but as with everything birth, it’s unpredictable. This Mama had some prodromal labor and was 3 cm for 3 weeks before they scheduled induction at almost 41 weeks! They checked in to the hospital at 8 am and started Pitocin at 9:20 am. The doctor broke her water and casually mentioned that the baby would be out in time for a “late lunch”. My bags were packed and had been for weeks, so I just waited for the go-ahead to head out. Not even 2 hours later, she tells me the contractions…
Jamie and Skyler Scott got married in 2004 and soon welcomed their first child, Shayden, who was born in 2005. A few years later, Jamie gave birth to her second son, Landon. For five years, the couple desperately tried to have another baby. Photo credits: FiveTwoLove They searched for a fertility specialist and during the second round of treatment, they hit the jackpot — but maybe not in the way everyone expected. At just 19 weeks, Jamie already looked nine months pregnant! Her bump had gotten so big so quickly that she could no longer walk and needed a…
A transgender man who became a father for the third time decided to share some photos of his birth to show that they too can live this experience and break down barriers for the LGBTT+ community. Yuval Topper-Erez confessed that the images are just over a year old. However, he had not dared to make them public because at first, he thought it was something very personal, but later he realized the importance of talking about it. The father wrote on his Instagram account that he has always loved birthing photoshoots, so he decided to make one for himself. “At first I…
Birth happens in all sorts of places and all sorts of ways. Sometimes transitioning from active labor to pushing happens so fast, you don’t have time to take off your underwear. Erin Beth: “My client had just used the restroom while the birth team was sitting on the sofa in the living room. Mom walked in, stood by the fireplace, had one contraction, and yells “catch my baby!” The midwives ZOOM across the floor just in time to lead baby earthside, through the leg hole in the underwear.” When most people hear the phrase “birth is unpredictable” they don’t often…
One of the most fulfilling experiences for most women can be bringing a child into the world. Ask any mother you know. She will demonstrate that, despite the discomfort involved, giving birth is a truly lovely experience. The simple thought of holding your little angel in your arms at the destination makes every challenge worthwhile. While most of you are certainly familiar with cesarean sections and natural births, other people may be unfamiliar with water births. It is thought to be less stressful for both the mother and the infant. Gini Rothenberger made the decision to give birth in water…
One of the heaviest babies ever born in Germany was born last week at the University Hospital Leipzig. A baby weighing 13.47 pounds was born without the aid of a cesarean section in Germany, making her the country’s largest newborn ever. She was born vaginally, not via a C-section, according to a hospital statement. “We anticipated that the child would be big,” said Holger Stepan, chief of obstetrics. “We prepared in advance by assembling a special team (of doctors and midwives) to be ready for any possible complications.” According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby ever born…
Katie Craw, 26 – A mother beat staggering odds of 200 million to one to give birth to naturally conceived identical triplets – doubling the size of her family overnight. She and partner Rob Ellis from Pentre Maelor, Wales have made history after giving birth to an identical pair of triplets. They almost Fᴀɪɴᴛᴇᴅ when they were told their second child was actually three at their 12-week sᴄᴀɴ. Usually, triplets are ɴᴏɴ identical and are created when ᴛᴡᴏ eggs are Fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪsᴇᴅ and one goes on to grow into twins. This occurrence is termed to be incredibly rare in the world…
A US woman gave birth to five miracle babies after ʟᴏsɪɴɢ two. On February 16, Shawn and Haylee Ladner from Mississippi became parents to five adorable babies, quintuplets born after the couple suffered two ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs. The chances of having quintuplets are rare – 1 in 60 million – and this couple has been blessed after ʟᴏsɪɴɢ all hope. According to PEOPLE, “Haylee and Shawn Ladner, of Purvis, welcomed their five new babies – including four identical girls and one boy – at the Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants on Feb. 16, according to a press release from the University…
The process of giving birth to a child is messy, raw, and brutal but it is also filled with beauty and strength that make you proud to be a woman. Earlier in the month of March, a birth photographer Vanessa Mendez documented the home birth of baby Indigo June with mother Vanessa DeCosta and shared the real, raw, and inspiring images on Facebook. The images soon went viral all over the world with more than 376,000 shares, because they highlighted the beauty of birth and the incredible strength mothers possess. On the morning of March 11, Mendez got a call…
Birth photography is an incredibly intimate and powerful art form. To honor this work and the families who choose to document and share these vulnerable moments, the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers holds an annual photo contest. These photos capture intimate, miraculous moments that show human life does go on, despite the hardships we’ve all faced in the past couple of years. We are still in awe of the way families trust a photographer to document this profound moment in their lives. On Wednesday, the IAPBP announced the winners of its 11th annual Birth Photography Image Competition, which celebrates…
Isa Scherer, an actress, presenter, and chef, is expecting twins and has been flaunting her amazing tummy on social media as she nears delivery. She herself makes a comment in some captions, “This belly size is not normal,” joking about the size in the pictures, which is impressive. ” like that in a pregnancy with twins? The answer is yes, even if Isa claims that the “belly has no limits” and that “if I don’t give birth next week, I think I sneeze and they come out through my belly button,” as she jokingly wrote in other captions. According to experts,…
This is the story of Lily Brennan, 17, and her sister Lauren, 20. They both live with their parents in Merseyside, England. And both became mothers for the first time on the same day, within a few hours of each other, despite the ᴘʀᴇsᴜᴍᴇᴅ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ of birth not being the same. What we haven’t told you yet is that Lily and Lauren are two teenage girls who got pregnant around the same time and gave birth to their babies on the same day. Little cousins share a birthday day. The ᴘʀᴇsᴜᴍᴇᴅ ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀʏ ᴅᴀᴛᴇs actually had a difference of 12 days…
Bringing forth life is the most beautiful act, but this birth was even more special because it was the gift of surrogacy that brought life to her friends. These mothers met 25 years ago and will be forever bonded now through this moment of love, sacrifice, and life. Photo credits: Cradled Creations Photo credits: Cradled Creations Photo credits: Cradled Creations Photo credits: Cradled Creations Photo credits: Cradled Creations Photo credits: Cradled Creations What is surrogacy? Surrogacy involves a person agreeing to carry and give birth to a baby for someone else. After the baby…
En caul birth sometimes referred to as a veiled birth, is when a baby is birthed still inside an intact amniotic sac. This may give the appearance your baby is born in a clear, soft bubble. A bit like a water balloon. Once the baby has been born, the midwife or mum will gently tear open the amniotic sac and remove the baby from the membranes. Cesarean en caul births are known to happen yet a vaginal en caul birth occurs spontaneously and is thought to be rare. En caul birth is very rare. Some estimate it is believed en…
Having a photographer at the birth of a child is not unheard of these days. Birth photos are a beautiful memento of one of the most extraordinary experiences in a mother’s life. A Florida-based family photographer Kathy Rosario has captured the emotional moment her close friend gave birth to her third child, a baby girl, during an at-home water birth. Photographer Kathy Rosario of K Ro Photography has always been interested in capturing stunning photos of pregnancy, childbirth, and babies. According to Kathy, when a woman gives birth at home, it creates a different atmosphere filled with pure bliss and…
After previously having twins, a Danish mother is now expecting triplets! Welcoming twins in 2018, Michelle Meier-Morsi and Mark Morsi thought they were done having kids. But life had other plans for the Danish couple. It was when Michelle went in for what was supposed to be a routine ultrasound that she found out she would not be having just one or two babies, but three! She said once the technician started asking if multiples run in her family or her husband’s family, she had a pretty good idea she would be having more than one baby. Photo credits:…
Newborn weight has trended upward in the world. In the past few years, babies that would’ve been considered gargantuan have become more commonplace, with record-breaking deliveries recorded. We’re seeing more large babies now than ever before, and that might be because of many factors. Helen Sellers, 34, from Leeds, gave birth to her daughter Celia, who weighed a whopping 11lbs 5oz, five weeks ago. Helen, a mental health nurse, explained that Celia was one of the biggest babies her midwife had ever delivered in her 16-year career. She revealed how nurses had ‘taken ages’ to get the baby out during…
A Florida woman can breathe a sigh of relief after giving birth to a whopping 13-pound, 5-ounce baby girl. “It looked like they pulled a toddler out of my belly. She’s so big,” Chrissy Corbitt of Keystone Heights told ABC News of her newborn, Carleigh Corbitt. Chrissy Corbitt of Keystone Heights, Fla., gave birth to a 13-pound, 5-ounce newborn, Carleigh Corbitt, on May 15, 2017. Courtesy Larry and Chrissy Corbitt Baby Carleigh was born on May 15 at Orange Park Medical Center. The proud parents, Chrissy and her husband Larry Corbitt, who are already parents to four children, had no…
Photographer Hailey McNeal has shared the moving moment she captured a young mum welcoming twin boys into the world. Taking to Facebook, Hailey shared a series of striking photos she took as a young mum Sarita gave birth to Amos and Noah, with her husband and baby son Emerson there to support her. Photo credits: Hailey McNeal Photography “It was peaceful and powerful,” Hailey told HELLO! “It took me several days to process the beauty of it all. She was so calm and gentle and kind.” Photo credits: Hailey McNeal Photography She later added: “I sent her tons…
To illustrate just how amazing dogs are, let me introduce you to the most magical photo shoot you shall ever lay your eyes on. If this doesn’t prove the power of a puppy, then I don’t know what will… The snaps were taken by Kristin Waner, a photographer from Odessa, Texas, who was tasked with capturing the home birth of a young family’s third child. Waner had visited the family before and taken the photographs for the births of two of their three children, so she already knew this would be a beautiful shoot. However, she wasn’t prepared for the…