Doulas and midwives are both priceless assets to your birth team. As your healthcare provider, your midwife will handle the clinical responsibilities during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum, while your doula provides information, as well as physical and emotional support. Midwives and doulas have differing but complementary roles. Both will support and encourage the healthiest birth practices, ensuring a more satisfying childbirth experience for your family.

In terms of photography, birth photography definitely one of the most challenging types of events to photograph because of its unpredictable nature. This is one area where you definitely get what you pay for. If you want to have a reliable photographer who is accustomed to the lifestyle of being on call and dropping everything to come to you, day or night, as well as has the expensive equipment and skills necessary to photograph in low light situations, as well as the intuition to navigate the sensitivity of birth spaces…

Choosing your midwife will have a direct effect on your birth experience and your outcome. It’s highly advised to interview many midwives in your area before choosing who would be best at your birth. When doing your interviews, here are excellent questions to ask…

Really, I cannot recommend the hiring of a professional birth photographer strongly enough! Of all the events of our lives, very few compare in beauty, in significance, in triumph, in profound power to those in which we bring our priceless offspring spiraling into the light!

How abundantly worthy they are to be preserved!