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59 Powerful NSFW Photos From The 2017 Birth Photo Competition Prove That Moms Are Badass
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The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers has announced the winners of their 2017 contest, and the photos they chose show the struggles mothers go through to bring new life into the world, and the sheer joy that follows.
We took your breath away with last year's contest, and these new photos will leave you even more amazed. Each one tells a story of pain, perseverance, and finally, relief. They document a baby's first moments of life, and a family's first moments of unity.
Many of the photos below are intense and graphic, so reader discretion is advised. They are all, however, powerful in their own unique ways.
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I've Been Waiting For You
Best In Category: Postpartum, Straight From Heaven
Skin To Skin Today. Heart To Heart Always
Jesus. What's our society coming to?! That kid's WAY too young to be a parent.
Are You My Mama?
Great neck control at just a few minutes old. The neck control comes weeks after birth. Strong baby.
Best In Category: Delivery, With A Splash
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the Slip n' Slide!
Freshly Squeezed
Why? This is only how you would have entered the world too (barring medical intervention).
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People bitching when they see a baby being born, in a PHOTO SERIES ABOUT BABIES BEING BORN
I don't understand what is wrong with this picture that has everyone is a frenzy. How is it adult content? It's a babies head, thighs, partial buttocks and a hand... is it the idea of what is happening that is repulsive to people? If si, you all need to realize it happens every minute of everyday and is just the most natural thing there is. This is birth photography, what did you expect?
Did you think you were going to see a crane delivering a baby with a bow in a basket?!
I'm 69, but Í don't understand what is so terrible about this picture that young people shouldn't see it, this is what life is about.
Why should one be 18 to see the beautiful life event of a baby born !This photo Could and Should be shown in primary school, or even kindergarten , it's just Fantastisk ❤️
Some of these comments are pathetic. This is how babies usually come out. There was a warning, it's a NSFW series about childbirth. What did you expect? Fuckwits!
Head first is normal...and so far a great group of pics
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This is beautiful,my midwives also helped me calm down enough to guide my hands feel my baby's head coming through and gave me the power to over come the pain and without epidural they said I did great because I was eager and determined to hold my baby right away and then I did it again with my next baby
The most beautiful and visually funny picture ever? Literally first glimpse of the world upside down 😍 How wonderfully captured
Why for godsake the warning...it's biology/nature/life mesmerising and beautiful
Biology and life are often beautiful AND messy, simultaneously. Mesmerizing AND schocking. Life is far from black or white.
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Many of you are disgusted or smthn. WHAT did you expect to see in this topic?! Stop doing a shitstorm..
Why shouldn't young people see this? this is what life is about.
Agreed! Birth is so incredibly powerful. It's an amazing thing to experience as a woman, and even to watch.
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Did people momentarily forget that babies come out of a vagina?? Seriously, get over yourselves. You can't claim one minute that birth is beautiful and bitch about it the next.
Absolutely beautiful! To those who wished they had headed the warning, how on earth could you be repulsed. This is life!
This is where most of us started, unless you were ripped out via c-section as my third one was. Now there's lots of evidence to show how many greT bacteria to protect our gut and lives we get by travel through the birth canal
I had my children c section and thank God for them, and some of us ain't built for this kind of birth
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Interesting. All I can think of i how much pain the mother is in this photo, but it will be all worth it after.
This part of birth actually isn't that painful, the worst part is over (birth of the head).
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We try to keep as much of the vernix (white ) on the baby as humanly possible. NO bath for 24 or more hours. Very antimicrobial. I have overdue babies born all the time with no vernix. We keep it on.. and baby and mom skin to skin immediately. No blanket between mom and baby ever. Skin touching skin.
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What the heck? I have 4 kids and 4 grandkids and I NEVER got to see THIS view!!
She might be on all fours? I think squating is supposed the most natural position to help push the baby out. It seems like squatting would be better than lying on your back. But then you don't have the epidural, and so that's a big negative to that birth position. haha I tried to go without the epidural, and I got really close but I couldn't do it. So I don't think I would be a squatter or stander. 😁
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Obviously some arnt very mature so they never should have clicked on "mature content"
I chose not to see my son come out, and now I'm glad I chose not to. All of that labor business is scary enough. I think it would have freaked me out more than I was already freaking out. haha
Lovely picture, just have to wait for the rest to come ... gotta love hands and knees!
Lovely photo! Just waiting on the rest to come ... love hands and knees!
Done almost 400 deliveries in my intern ship but still wasn't expecting it like that
Amazing shot...amazing view....amazing share....amazing everything about it!
I love this one. I didn't have the choice to have anything but a c-section due to two medical issues, one being placenta previa and the other being severe arthritis in my hip and back, so although I "missed out," so to speak, I think it is beautiful. It was nice to walk in on my baby's birthday pain-free and calm and say "I'm here to have a baby," but if I had had a choice, I would've had a natural birth.
Why is this article Not Safe For Work. These are images of childbirth, these are not sexuality explicit images.
I read all the comments and I laughed so hard I cried on some of them! And just to clarify - I have had 8 children - all natural with no medication. I am that earthy mother who fell in love with all things pregnancy, childbirth, nursing and children related. Obviously. (smile) And while I find childbirth incredibly beautiful and have even filmed a number of my births, this picture is just an odd juxtaposition to me - still incredible - just not one of my favorites. And as I said, the comments had me in tears. And leading to me to want to "caption" this from the newborn's point of view. But such a beautiful baby for sure!
It's not even showinf the female genital area so I don't rwly find this "mature content". More of... Watch out. It's purple baby!!! Lol :)
what is so censorable about this? Wonderful. It's a recall of My Own struggled relief and joy 60 years ago.
It's sad that there needs to be a warning. If this image is disturbing to you, watch some national geographic, visit someone in the hospital, or just stop using fabric softener on yourself while showing.
This picture reminded me of a mini-story that I wrote last year. https://alkagirdhar.com/2016/06/15/first-journey/
Intensive panda must be a guy... Were you expecting a giant vibrator or fist to be coming out .. seriously .. how do you think you got here
OH crap people - why would you regret seeing this? Don't be so squeamish. It is an absolute privilege to get to see the very second a child enters the world. This is what it is to be human, strong and vulnerable and the same as everybody else.
Wow, this is just so real, the vernix on the babies head, that look on its face, and mums hand, as a mum brings it all back. Wonderful. What an honour to be there, what a fabulous photo for the paernts to have after.
Awesome and beautiful photo. Little one covered in vernix as mama stands to help deliver.
Magnificent. I'm not seeing well through my tears. These are such a celebration.
Baby looks uncomfortable. This isn't beautiful...as a mother seeing the birth from tne back end, baby clearly can't breathe here, this isn't capturing a good moment. It looks like she's squeezing his head between her cheeks. I get the concept. But try again
He has no need to breathe yet, he has O2 being delivered from Mom via the umbilical cord. Not to mention he is unable to breathe as his body is still compressed in the birth canal, and his thoracic cavity cannot expand yet. This is a perfectly normal position.
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Beautiful! (I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Kids see more skin than this on the beach, and the blood is easily explained.)
Why is there a warning on this? You can't see anything. People are crazy
ouch, yes it does hurt especially with a bigger baby :) Birth is so amazing!
такива снимки на мен ми развалят усещането за "красотата" да донесеш живот на този свят.И тази жена докато е раждала ,когато се е показала главата на бебето какво е казала:"Задръж го малко там на задника ми и снимай?!...."За мен е малоумно!!!
I'm sorry but is anyone else thinking wow when the kid starts dating and mom and dad pull out the baby picture to show the date! Like someone said the babies are well worth the pain and yes it is pain but that's life
Wow. I wonder if this went in the baby book. I also wonder if the baby coming unexpectedly. I've never seen a picture like this.
Awww! Reminds me of when i was birthing my baby and the doc had me reach down and touch her head!
I have a picture like this of me delivering my son my best mate took it nd I find it amazing still
Um... for someone who's somewhat planning to have kids in near future... this is scary as hell (just imagining the pain when squeezing that baby out).
I delivered two (big) sons, but at that moment you need all the strength you've got to push the baby out. You are so concentrated on pushing, so I didn't feel much pain. Most of the pain is when you're having contractions before the actual birth.
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Honorable Mentions. Catching Her Baby, Born Via Surrogacy
Absorb
I'm surprised there are no comments here. I had the strongest emotional reaction to this photo. The image of encircling and comforting arms and hands around the new life with the potential for the same encircling and comfort. This photo tells a great story.
The End: A New Beginning
The First Look
Honorable Mentions. As She Rose From The Depths
Honorable Mentions. Hello Before Goodbye
Honorable Mentions. Gentle Caesarean Birth
Newborns generally look like I imagine Winston Churchill's testicle looked like.
Becoming Grandmothers
Honorable Mentions. Before The First Breath
Mother's Pure Bliss
Euphoric First Embrace Together
Honorable Mentions. Honoring The Temple
