A Photographic Record of the Physiological Management of Normal Childbirth,
Neonate, Father and New Family

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Spontaneous Labor ~ Upright and Mobile Mother; Walking in Labor; One-on-One Labor Support;

        

      

    

 

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Use of Showers and Deep Water for Non-Drug Pain Relief; Right Use of Gravity

          

          

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Spontaneous Natural Birth as the baby moves out and up into the mother’s arms

     

       

    

   

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Mother Receives and Welcomes Her New Baby

        

   

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Father Welcomes New Baby and Congratulates the New Mom,

            

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Mother Breastfeeds for the first time

            

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Father (and others!) gets a chance to hold the new baby     

             

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Basking the Glow of the New Baby

                                

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Happy, Healthy Families

         

                      

                                  

             

           me     my daughter Shawn, born in back seat of our car on the way to the hospital and my grandson Devin, @ 2 y/o

                      My 3 children ~ Shawn, Todd and Holly ~ and newest grandson, Rory, born at home July 19, 1997

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