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I Captured The Emotions Of Men While They’re Watching Women Give Birth
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For every soul we create, there is a soul that we felt a connection with first.
The one who helped us create life.
The one who watches on helplessly while the woman he loves, moans and howls through labor stages.
While we have always put each other first, mother nature drifts in to place him in the backseat while he watches them transform into one other. All without needing his assistance.
At every single birth I have attended, the men are in the background, even if they are up close with their women.
They are actually stronger than they realize.
Carrying the irony in their faces of being able to fix everything yet somehow not able to "fix" our pain and discomfort.
It's not even the fact that we need to be saved but that they're essentially powerless to rescue in a way that they are used to being able to do.
Their empathy skyrockets in a manner that most of them have never experienced, yet they stay silent.
They do not make the situation about themselves.
Nor do they panic.
They are anxious.
Worried.
Frustrated.
They do their best to not let on.
I make occassional eye contact with them to telepathically tell them that she is okay.
She will be okay.
Words are rarely spoken.
Whether through caressing us through our experience or respecting our space, they are in the shadows, observing.
Witnessing two or more people being born.
They watch the women they once knew being birthed into who they are now.
It is illogical to think that the men we love & choose to be present do not experience a beautiful and gaining loss as well.
They watch the woman they love turn into a stranger who is somehow still the woman they love.
Paralyzed with the intensity before them, their empathy overrides their fear and they stay strong.
To these men, we see you and we love you.
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Do not look beyond that curtain--doctors tell you not to, and it is the truth.
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This could be a dad waiting for a c section- they made my husband wait outside when I was being prepared for emergency csection (after 38 hours of natural labor that stopped progressing normally). He was ushered into the operating room a moment before our son was pulled out of the incision. ...The nurse said they did it that way as a policy after having one too many expectant fathers pass out at the sight of the incision on a pregnant belly, so close to baby. They said there had been times when the fathers ended up with more stitches than mom...(though theirs were in a more comfortable location...)
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There's nothing... to partly exposed breast, no vagina, no newborn baby, or anything else this post is marking as so called "matrue content"! Everyone is fully clothed! How the hell is the decision for something to be "mature content" made??? I wouldn't mark anything I saw so far as "mature content"... this is life and not something that has to be hidden
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These are very beautiful and show real and raw emotion, but none of the “Mature Content” was all that mature? I mean, maybe for a child, but still. It’s somewhat pointless to make a totally okay picture mature content that anyone on here could just click it anyways..?
None of these pictures are 'mature content' - it's pathetic.
Agreed.
The restrictions on mature content when it comes to possibilities of a child visiting the website are becoming ridiculous. I think the portal came down to "better safe, than sorry" and labels everything that is not seen around (such as boobs, tubes in veins, blood etc) commonly as mature.
I "liked" every single one. All are of a woman producing a new human out of herself and undergoing agony in the process. The helplessness of men shows - nature will deliver.
Thank you for these pictures. We need our men so badly, for help, emotional support, for sheer presence. Their love is so powerful. Their mere will to help us and take our pain away from us are enough to get us through this. When we believe we can't take it anymore, they are there to tell us "You can. You can do this, you are strong, you are beautiful, I love you, I know you and I know you can." And strangely, we believe them...
These are very beautiful and show real and raw emotion, but none of the “Mature Content” was all that mature? I mean, maybe for a child, but still. It’s somewhat pointless to make a totally okay picture mature content that anyone on here could just click it anyways..?
None of these pictures are 'mature content' - it's pathetic.
Agreed.
The restrictions on mature content when it comes to possibilities of a child visiting the website are becoming ridiculous. I think the portal came down to "better safe, than sorry" and labels everything that is not seen around (such as boobs, tubes in veins, blood etc) commonly as mature.
I "liked" every single one. All are of a woman producing a new human out of herself and undergoing agony in the process. The helplessness of men shows - nature will deliver.
Thank you for these pictures. We need our men so badly, for help, emotional support, for sheer presence. Their love is so powerful. Their mere will to help us and take our pain away from us are enough to get us through this. When we believe we can't take it anymore, they are there to tell us "You can. You can do this, you are strong, you are beautiful, I love you, I know you and I know you can." And strangely, we believe them...