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Beautiful Belly Pictures

After birth, a woman’s belly is rarely ever the same as before pregnancy (let alone, multiple pregnancies!).
I never developed stretchmarks, but I did lose my pre-pregnancy, tight-muscled, flat belly. My cute little belly-button slit is now just a hole. My now-soft, stretchy-skinned belly makes funny “faces” at my kids and sends

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Birth Stories

Pregnancy and Birth can be an amazing time for a woman. I found myself drawn to stories, images and having many questions about what if. Sharing our birth stories seemed very natural to me, even though things didn’t always go how we’d wished they would. In the end, we’ve been blessed with

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Teigen Jacob – Unassisted Birth

Teigen – an unassisted homebirth, waterbirth with transport to hospital after the birth.

My water broke around 1:00 a.m. on June 6th. The contractions weren’t often and weren’t painful at all. But, since we didn’t know how long it would be, we set up the pool and got things ready. I tried sleeping on and off

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Teigen Jacob – Pregnancy

Teigen – an unassisted homebirth, waterbirth with transport to hospital after the birth.
We had so much fun taking pictures every few weeks during the pregnancy. I particularly enjoyed it… it was fun seeing the changes. Nothing like a growing pregnant belly!

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Ryland Quin – After Birth

Love newborn baby pictures!
These are pictures taken within the first few days after Ryland being born. It was so nice to be home so quickly! And the weather was beautiful. Ryland was passed from arms to arms as everyone wanted a chance to hold the new little baby.

Wrapped in his cozy blanket, Ry is sleeping

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Ryland Quin – Pregnancy

Pregnancy with Ryland seemed to go by so quickly. There was much for me to think about, the past two births weighing heavy on my mind, heavy on my heart. In some ways it was nice to have it move along so fast, as each of my previous pregnancies seemed to really drag out. On

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