22/11/2025 I’ve been sitting with this birth overnight, letting it settle in my chest and wash back over me in slow, quiet waves. Some births do that, they linger. They ask you to pause, breathe, and make sense of what your heart witnessed. This birth took place at a private hospital in Perth’s northern suburbs and I was there as the birth photographer. I want to acknowledge, though, that I walk in two worlds; birth photography and birth support. Although my client had booked

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