When I was just starting out with birth photography in 2011, I was terrified of missing something. I focussed on the parents’ emotions, and everything else I could get on camera was a bonus. Until I was at a birth in February 2012, where the child’s head was born with a tight nuchal cord. This …
On holiday with your baby I started writing this whole story about going on holiday with your baby, but while I was writing it, I thought, “What a lot of drivel.” 🙂 The moral of this blog is: if you want to go on holiday, then go. That’s what we did, and it went brilliantly! …
We went away with Liv for two weeks, to the beautiful island of Sardinian. From the first week with made a little movie as a preview. I tried to upload it on YouTube and here, but for some reason that didn’t work out. It only worked out on my private Facebook account. So this week …
The placenta According to the Oxford English Dictionary: Pronunciation: /pləˈsɛntə/ Definition of placenta in English: noun (plural placentae pləˈsɛntiː or placentas). A flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the foetus through the umbilical cord. I’ve always been fascinated by placentas, but unfortunately the role of the placenta is often rather neglected. You seldom …
Bad mother (/father)? Have you ever done something (or not done something) which resulted in your child being hurt, or sad? I’m supposed to hope everyone will answer with a ‘no’, but really I’m hoping for the opposite. Because if you all answer ‘no’, then I’m going to feel like the worst mother in the …