A cosy little mess | Birth Photography Belgium I like to call them my favourite Belgians. 🙂 Hanne and Yannick are sociable, relaxed and easy to get along with. It’s easy to feel very comfortable with them, very quickly, which is unusual in Belgium. I met them 2,5 years ago when they asked me to …
Lightening speed | Birth Photography Terneuzen The first time I had Mariëlle and Gunnar in front of my lens, they were expecting their first baby. We did a maternity shoot, and once Mara had arrived, a newborn shoot. Mariëlle had thought about birth photography, but found it a little scary, and didn’t know what to …
I was simply made for this | Birth Photography The introductory meeting with Maaike and Kevin was a meeting where a lot of tears flow. Tears of happiness, but a lot of them. 🙂 Maaike followed my own story of trying to get pregnant, and after a long journey herself, she is finally pregnant. She’s …
A tea party or a birth? | Birth photography August 2014 I documented the birth of Norah and quicker than expected there is a baby brother on the way. I was there again to document the birth, but the parents would like to keep the story and most of the photos for themselves. Here is …
A natural birth after a c-section | Photos of the birth In May 2012 I photographed the birth of Liam. The birth did not go the way Annemiek and Richard imagined it would. It didn’t go as hoped, and one intervention followed another. In the end a c-section was done, and the recovery was very …
When you think of birth photography, then you think about this moment. The moment your baby is born. After all the hard work, after waiting for so long you finally hold your baby in your arms. That you, as a partner, after all these months in which you just felt the kicking, come face to …
Favourite birth photos of 2015 2015 was a very different year, because I was the one who was pregnant! I had a baby girl, and became a mother. A lifelong wish which came true. The first months were all about the extreme nausea, which meant I could hardly work at all, and once I felt …
In January 2014 I took photos of the first hours of Lise’s life. The year before that, I had met her parents, Carola and Andre. During the birth they wanted to be together, without any other non-essential people around, so they chose to have a ‘First Fresh Hours’ shoot. And when Carola fell pregnant with …
Not as planned, but perfect | Birth photography They booked a ‘Fresh First hours’ session. That means that I start driving to them when mama starts pushing, and arrive within the first hour after baby is born. I don’t write a birth story (since I wasn’t there for the birth), but I take photos of …
Sinds 2011 I am part of Birthphotographers.com Evert year the organize a photo competition for birth photography. In 2014 my photo ended up fourth place and received an honorable mention. This is what was written: “I tear up every time I look at this photo. It’s perfectly shot and tells the story of life. You …