October 1, 2007....one amazing day
My friend Tina just had her first baby. Miss Tina took some time to find the love of her life, and when she did, they were not sure if they wanted kids. One day last year she surprised us by telling us that she was pregnant. As soon as she told me I told her that I wanted to be there to document when that baby was born. She looked at me like I was nuts, but I told her that I promised I would photograph it as it happened, but nothing gory or distasteful. Miss Tina is a girly girl, you see...and she doesn't like to go anywhere not looking all put together. Knowing she was going to be having her baby in the past week, she gave her own self a pedicure so her toes would be pretty for the Dr. Who gives themselves a pedicure at 9 months??
When my friend Christal and I got the call, Tina was checking in to the hospital around 2PM. She was in light labor, and they wanted to watch her. If nothing else, she was scheduled to be induced Wednesday morning. Christal and I agreed to take a ride out to the hospital just to take a few shots of her checking in. I fully expected to go home, and probably get the call early the next morning, or even sometime the next day.
We got to the hospital at 4:30 PM..and baby was born at 6:15 PM. It was amazingly fast and we all joked with Tina that if she ever wanted to consider a second career that it should be a surrogate. That was one amazingly fast, amazingly awesome birth. I am so thankful that Tina allowed me to be in the room to see things from the other side of the table. I promise there is nothing scary or horrifically bloody in this slideshow, so if you are squeamish, no worries. And as my friend Tina warned me as I photographed the birth "No cootie shots" either
Click here to watch the slideshow of baby Hintz
My friend Tina just had her first baby. Miss Tina took some time to find the love of her life, and when she did, they were not sure if they wanted kids. One day last year she surprised us by telling us that she was pregnant. As soon as she told me I told her that I wanted to be there to document when that baby was born. She looked at me like I was nuts, but I told her that I promised I would photograph it as it happened, but nothing gory or distasteful. Miss Tina is a girly girl, you see...and she doesn't like to go anywhere not looking all put together. Knowing she was going to be having her baby in the past week, she gave her own self a pedicure so her toes would be pretty for the Dr. Who gives themselves a pedicure at 9 months??
When my friend Christal and I got the call, Tina was checking in to the hospital around 2PM. She was in light labor, and they wanted to watch her. If nothing else, she was scheduled to be induced Wednesday morning. Christal and I agreed to take a ride out to the hospital just to take a few shots of her checking in. I fully expected to go home, and probably get the call early the next morning, or even sometime the next day.
We got to the hospital at 4:30 PM..and baby was born at 6:15 PM. It was amazingly fast and we all joked with Tina that if she ever wanted to consider a second career that it should be a surrogate. That was one amazingly fast, amazingly awesome birth. I am so thankful that Tina allowed me to be in the room to see things from the other side of the table. I promise there is nothing scary or horrifically bloody in this slideshow, so if you are squeamish, no worries. And as my friend Tina warned me as I photographed the birth "No cootie shots" either
Click here to watch the slideshow of baby Hintz
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