The woman that only hired me weeks ago to photograph her birth delivered a big baby boy Monday evening.  She had an amazing birth and I was so incredibly impressed by her and her support team.  

Here are a few of my favorite pictures:

I really like the above picture because it shows how many people she had loving on her throughout her day-long labor, she actually had 1 other friend there, but her hands aren't pictured here...





This child was born listening to the sound of Christmas music playing on CD.







I only have one more birth photography client - in January, hopefully soon someone else will hear about me and ask me to attend their birth as well.

Last Monday I was hired to photograph another birth!  I haven't met the woman, but I know an acquaintance of hers as well as her doula, so she is very comfortable and excited to have me there.  Her due date is Dec. 3rd and she is planning to have a natural birth to her 1st baby, a boy.    

I am really looking forward to this!  

I also recieved another inquiry about birth photography on Friday, but after I sent her part of the slideshow from the November birth I didn't hear back.  Well, she can't say I didn't warn her that it was graphic! 

Okay this is what happened today:  I went to a playgroup with the owner of the online store that I took photos for a couple of weeks ago.  She told me that she has recieved so many compliments on the front page picture: and that the company that sells this coat and hat actually asked to buy rights to it so that they can use it for advertising!  She, of course, told them that she couldn't sell it because she doesn't own the picture, but when she told me about it today I jumped all over this opportunity!  At the very least this would be something really neat to tell Paityn when she gets older!  

She was supposed to give them my info so we just have to wait and see what happens, hopefully it won't take too long!

LOVE this picture from my last photo session!



I have actually be meaning to write about that particular session since it was probably the highlight of August and what better time than the present?  

The conversation with them actually went surprisingly similar to what I had been daydreaming about, they even gave me the opportunity to mention that Naiya was born in the water and was a VBAC without my having to search for a way to bring it up.  Amisha was interested, all Amit said at 1st was "Wow, you had a vbac at home, that's interesting."  He had such an odd look on his face, I did wonder if he was going to as me to leave.  What can you expect from an OB though?  I told him that there just aren't that many options for a woman who is not wanting to schedule repeat surgeries and he launched into the current recommendations about 24 hour anesthesia for a VBAC labor.  At some point I stopped listening and was happy when the baby was ready to have her photos taken.

About the photos:  I totally kicked ass and they loved all of them!  They have asked me to come back and take more, I will also have a session with Amisha's sister from Dallas sometime in September.  She said that if I had business cards she would hand them out for me, so I designed some, had them printed and they arrived today looking awesome.  

I am trying to think of ways that I can photograph more newborns...maybe that will cure the baby fever I have come down with in the past week or so.