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I never dreamed I’d become so close to a client in such a short amount of time whom I only met a few months ago.  Jami contacted me earlier in the year to do her maternity photos and to photograph her baby shower.  From that point on, she booked me for her wedding and also her birth.  THE BIRTH OF HER BABY!

I scream that because how could it not be exciting to have the opportunity to photograph a baby being born? It makes you want to scream it to the world!  The best part of all, though, was that it was a scheduled c-section and it had been approved for me to actually be in the surgical room to photograph it ALL.  Wow.  How often does that opportunity arise?!  Not often.  (Thank you, Dr. Anderson, and St. Mary’s staff!)

For me it was extra special.  I had 3 c-sections myself.  The first was completely emergency in which I had a tube down my throat to breath and my husband wasn’t in the room for the birth.  It was very scary.  My 2nd birth was to be a VBAC and it ended up in c-section after 31 hours of labor.  Photography was the last thing on my mind.  My 3rd was a dream compared to the other two.  It was a planned c-section and I had a photographer on call.  While she wasn’t able to be in the surgical room with us, she was there for everything else (thank you again, Kellie, soooo much!).  It was one step closer to having the photographs of my own children being born.  So getting to photograph Jami’s birth gave me another chance to be more a part of a birth than I ever had been.  Not only did I get to be in the room, but I got to see it all happening.  I saw it all from the other side of the sheet and it was the most amazing gift Jami and her husband could ever give me.  But of course the biggest gift of all, not the event itself but the star of the show, gorgeous and healthy Logan.

I’m so happy I can share with you what I got to document that early morning in June.  Jami gave me the okay to show these to you and so I hope you can immerse yourself into the moment as much as you can.  Such a very special intimate moment in which Jami and Michael are allowing you to see through the eyes of me… something not many are allowed to see.

Thank you, Jami and Michael, for such an incredible experience and for allowing me to be a part of such a very special moment in time, one that can never be recreated.

{ Warning: this is a birth…there is some blood and fluids in these photos. }

Dr. Michael Hallam & Jami Hallam before the birth of their son