Giving Birth

Pregnancy and childbirth in sensitive and inspiring photographs.

 

Childbirth is the great equalizer.  The unwed teenager, the young wife and the middle-aged career woman all share a common sisterhood during their labor and delivery. While they give birth, their ages and backgrounds are cast aside to reveal a deeper and brighter dimension of their common humanity. All who are willing to open their eyes to the miracle of life can be touched by the power of a baby being born. Before I began this project, I didn't consider myself a particularly religious person. But after pointing my camera so many times at the deep blue gaze of newborns, I see why the midwives call them "fresh from God." They seem a physical affirmation of the spiritual side of human nature. Their ageless little faces can show us who we really are by reminding us of our original selves. From the introduction by author/photographer Mary Motley Kalergis

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