PHOTOS/BIRTH STORIES

Having a baby is one of most special times in a woman’s life.  No matter how old she becomes, she will always remember her labors and births of her children!  Ask your mother or grand-mother!

This excellent website has hundreds of birth stories & pictures – and we’re sure you will enjoy each and every one of them!  Later, you should consider adding your own “Ecstatic Birth Story!”

Click here http://www.birthdiaries.com/diary/ to view an excellent collection of birth stories with pictures! 

There are a few things worth mentioning before you dive into the birth pictorals.

• Please be patient for the pages to load. Some of the births contain a large number of images, and will take some time to load on a slower connection.
• The births are numbered for easy reference in each section.
• The star indicates how graphic the birth is according to our Graphics Rating Scale.
• If the third column contains a number, that indicates the number of images that birth contains; if an "E" is in that location, the birth is external to the Birth Story Diaries website.
• Some photos appear "grainy" or "dark". This is because often moms are laboring in almost complete darkness, and this compromises the film quality. If a photo is grainy, then you know she is laboring in the comfort of low light.
• I can only add birth photos as I receive them. If you'd like to submit photos of your birth, please feel free to do so.
• I maintain this site on my own time, and pay for this site out of my own pocket. If you like what you see, please take a moment to drop me a line and let us know.
• Finally, the pictorials are organized in three different ways, accessed via the links below. First, they are divided between type of delivery - vaginal or cesarean. Second, they are broken down by location of delivery, whether at home, a hospital, or in a birthing center. Finally, they are sorted by their Graphics Rating Scale. You will find each birth under multiple indexes depending on how you would like to browse the site.