im jealous

[Nikki Christina]

everyone has these great birth photos.. (ive loved them all.. but i cant seem to get much time to tell you all how much!)

& this time. i have none. nada. her first pics she was over an hour old

she was born within minutes of me walking in my room.. my husband wasent even in there.. he was in the waiting room with my girls waiting on my mom . she was about 10 minutes old when he got to me

i have good pics with my other births.. ive made extra copies that are put away to give them when they are older.

oh well i guess .............

[sarahn4639]

Oh Nikki, I'm sorry, that would make me sad too. I stressed how important it was to me this time, I don't have any labor pics with DD.

[Jezzy]

I wish that I had more too, I have ugly hospital pics that arent worth sharing or much looking at. I wanted dh to take pics of the birth but he was so amazed at the whole process that he had totally forgotten! Beside that it all went so fast he didn't have time to think about it.

If and when there is a next time I will have a hb. and someone to take pics!

[BabyBump]

Don't feel bad. I have pictures of my daughter right as she was out. None of Eli. We were so in the moment that Tim didn't grab the camera. I took pictures of him cleaning Eli up on the warmer so those have to be shortly after birth.

[flapjack]

We don't have pics either. Oddly, I don't mind this time. I don't think either of us will forget those first minutes.

[nolonger]

I don't have birth pics of any of my kids. The earliest pic I have is of Chris and me when he was about an hour old. My hair looks like a rat's nest, my eyes are too big, everything's purple from poor quality film, but I totally treasure it anyway.

I have one very bad quality blurry shot of Terran for his first week. I didn't allow flash photography until he was older and wish I had prohibited it even longer. I don't let ds1 shoot him any more, and since he's a "velcro baby", photography is pretty much limited to mirror shots and a few rare moments when he's happy lying on the bed by himself long enough to take pictures.

Yea, I get a bit jealous too when I look at other people's birth pictures, but I know myself well enough by now to realize how intrusive and unpleasant it would be to have someone snapping pictures at such an intimate time of my life. I don't have any conception pictures either. I thought about having ds1 take pictures of this last birth, but if I had, I probably would have seriously injured him.

[lilyblossom]

I'm in the same boat, no pics of the delivery. I think DH took a few brief photos of my labor but that's about it. The hospital wouldn't let us video the actual birth anyway and by the time I got to pushing, I had DH in position ready to catch and my unofficial doula, Noel, was giving me much needed relief from back labor with a warmie bag and massage...so, no pics. There are plenty from about an hour on though to make up for it!

I'm not sure if I'm jealous but it would have been nice to have a few birthing pics - on the other hand, I'm content to have the great pics we do have.

[Juise]

I have one right before my water broke while in labour, and then none until a couple hours after DD was born. I don't regret it at all, though, DP was there holding me up when she shot out all the way to her waist, and we both pulled her out together. My midwife had my feets, so.. I am glad we were both just involved in the moment instead of trying to get pictures. I would like pictures, but I didn't really want anyone else there for my first birth, and I guess I feel like it would be unfair to ask DP to be behind a camera instead of just as wrapped up in the moment as I was.

[StrawberryFields]

The same thing happened to me, no real birth photos because dd was born so quickly no one had time to grab the camera. I have all sorts of labor and birth photos with ds but nothing with dd.