Today we will tell you about the 54-year-old Australian Mary, who gave birth to her grandchild in order to fulfill her daughter’s biggest dream – to become a mother. The story of Mary Arnold and Megan White proves to all of us the magnitude of a mother’s unreserved love once again! At the age of 17, Megan found out she had MRKH sʏɴᴅʀᴏᴍᴇ, meaning she was born without a ᴜᴛᴇʀᴜs and would never be able to carry a baby of her own. However, her desire to become a mother is so great that when she is 28 years old, Megan…
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Monet Nicole’s special photographs capture the uniqueness of each birth. Monet Nicole is a professional photographer and midwife with many years of experience. She has photographed hundreds of women’s births, and through her Instagram profile, she shares experiences, thoughts, and photographic documents. The photographer believes that childbirth is a special, unique experience that stigmatizes every woman who experiences it. She also believes that each birth has its own uniqueness, which she tries to highlight through her work. The photographer recently published a series of photos that captured a mother who gave birth in a car. She wrote on Instagram about…
Kayla Gilnes, who had triplets before, had quads after conceiving with the help of fertility medication. Kayla Glines has many reasons to rejoice, including being the world’s first TRIPLET to give birth to QUADS. Kayla, 32, gave birth to four children against all odds: Reese, Jameson, Oaklee, and Lincoln. Her incredible tale spans over a decade of hope, patience, sorrow, and eventually, unrestrained joy as her dream of starting a family with her husband Allen became a reality. Five years ago she fell pregnant with triplets after fertility treatment. Two of the tots survived but one passed away in the…
Is there anything more beautiful or more powerful than a woman giving birth? This life-changing rite of passage gives birth to both a new kid and a new mother at the same time, and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. The ability to witness such beauty and strength via the sharing of birth photos helps to ɴᴏʀᴍᴀʟɪᴢᴇ birth and bodies, and we are delighted to be able to share the best of the best with you here. Giving birth during a ᴘᴀɴᴅᴇᴍɪᴄ is no small feat. Through her photos, we hope women recognize that all types of birth are beautiful and embrace…
Just before her 42nd birthday, at 28 weeks pregnant, Kimberly Fugate went into labor. As if that weren’t sʜᴏᴄᴋɪɴɢ enough, Kimberly didn’t even realize she was pregnant until she was 13 weeks along. The news that she would be having triplets was the cherry on top. With little time to get ready for her three babies, Kimberly and her husband Craig were hardly prepared for what happened in the delivery room. “It’s all been rather overwhelming when you think about how many changes will have to be made, But I am just trying to take everything one day at a…
Father Matthew Accurso had to say goodbye to his newborn son three weeks after his wife ᴅɪᴇᴅ during childbirth. Matthew and Lauren Accurso, a couple who had been together for 20 years, were expecting their fourth child, a boy. Little Matthew was about to come into the world and joyfully meet his three big sisters, Ali Rose (8), Naomi Belle (5), and Layna Louise (2). But their hopes for the future came to an abrupt halt when Lauren, 37, suddenly ᴘᴀssᴇᴅ ᴀᴡᴀʏ during childbirth on April 29. Her ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ was “unavoidable and a very rare medical case.” Baby Matthew was rushed…
Breast milk is called “liquid gold” because of all the nutrients it brings to the infant. Lauren McLeod, a 29-year-old mother from Australia, believes in the health benefits of breastfeeding and actually still does so with her 5-year-old. However, she was criticized by people who thought it was unacceptable for her to breastfeed for so long. But McLeod defends her actions and explains why society needs to remove this negative stigma. McLeod is a doula and became a mother for the first time in 2017 when she gave birth to her son Bowie. She then gave birth to her second child, Tigerlily,…
Ash Patrick Schade, a 28-year-old transgender man, gave birth to his first child at the end of 2020. He had become pregnant following a Grindr date. At 28, Ash Patrick Schade never thought of becoming a dad one day. However, life decided otherwise. In February 2020, this young transgender man from Huntington, West Virginia, became pregnant after a Grindr date with a stranger. “I went through a difficult period between 2019 and 2020. I had ᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟ health concerns due to my divorce. I ended up on Grindr and got pregnant. Nothing, however, predestined Ash to become pregnant one day. Born…
Becoming a mother is a desire of many women, certainly not all, but motherhood is a very important phase in the female world. Sometimes the road is not as simple as one might think, there are many stories of women who are unable to have children and have to seek ᴍᴇᴅɪᴄᴀʟ help or think about adoption. Manda Epton, 54, from Sydney, Australia, spent a lot of money and even more energy on I.V.F until she gave birth to her twin daughters in August 2018. However, her sᴛʀᴜɢɢʟᴇ to become a mom has made her appreciate the gift of motherhood even…
Chances of having a twin pregnancy are increased by maternal age (30+). Fraternal twinning is genetically predisposed and the result of a woman releasing more than one egg at the same time. Identical twins are the result of a random split of a single egg and cannot be genetically predisposed. Male twins will not have twins unless their wives have the ability to produce two eggs. Identical twins share the same DNA but do not have the same fingerprints. 1 in 250 pregnancies can result in identical twins. 22 % percent of twins are left-handed compared to 10% in singletons.…
Photos of women in the mass media don’t seem to leave much room for women who don’t match its heavily Photoshopped concept of beauty, but photographer Jade Beall provides a healthy counterweight, using her photography to highlight just how beautiful the bodies of mothers truly are. Beall’s photography takes women in all of their beauty – thick and thin, smooth and wrinkly, tall and short. Her photos seem especially empowering for women who have been marked with stretch marks by their pregnancies. On her website, she writes that her goal is “ to build self-esteem in a world that…
Archaeologists excavating at qubit al-hawā in southern Egypt, have uncovered a tomb containing the remains of mummified crocodiles. Archaeologists excavating at qubit al-hawā in southern Egypt, have uncovered a tomb containing the remains of mummified crocodiles. Qubbat al-Hawā is located opposite Aswan on the western bank of the Nile, serving as the resting place of nobles and priests mainly from the Old and Middle Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian tomb discovered with crocodile mummies The necropolis was active from the Fourth Dynasty until the Roman Period when archaeologists previously uncovered over 100 tombs. The latest tomb was discovered by…
She says people never know how many babies she’ll have. Pregnancy is something so unique in women’s lives that it can come in different shapes and sizes, one as beautiful as the other, and leave us impressed with the ability of the human body to change things. Mom-to-be Rhonda Richardson is proof of that, and on TikTok, @mechelle100, shows several videos of her belly changing and growing during her pregnancy. She, who lives in the United States, documented the growth of her belly at different stages. In the video, we can see the mother-to-be in several moments, which left people sʜᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ…
A woman has revealed how she finally realized her dream of becoming a mother after 14 years of ʜᴇᴀʀᴛᴀᴄʜᴇ, during which time she sᴜFFᴇʀᴇᴅ ɴᴜᴍᴇʀᴏᴜs ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs, divorced her husband and spent £70,000 on Fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ. Joanne Scollard-Kerr from Telford, Shropshire, started trying for a baby with her first husband when she was 26. It wasn’t until she was 40 that she finally became a mother to Pippa, now three, with her current finance thanks to I.V.F. But to her sʜᴏᴄᴋ after further rounds of I.V.F she was then delighted – and slightly sʜᴏᴄᴋed – to conceive triplets Theo, Drew, and…
A woman has revealed how she finally realized her dream of becoming a mother after 14 years of ʜᴇᴀʀᴛᴀᴄʜᴇ, during which time she sᴜFFᴇʀᴇᴅ ɴᴜᴍᴇʀᴏᴜs ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs, divorced her husband and spent £70,000 on Fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ. Joanne Scollard-Kerr from Telford, Shropshire, started trying for a baby with her first husband when she was 26. It wasn’t until she was 40 that she finally became a mother to Pippa, now three, with her current finance thanks to I.V.F. But to her sʜᴏᴄᴋ after further rounds of I.V.F she was then delighted – and slightly sʜᴏᴄᴋed – to conceive triplets Theo, Drew, and…
It’s getting harder and harder to be a mother these days. It’s all because of social pressure that tells you to go straight from the delivery room to the gym. You only have a few weeks to recover and get back to your pre-pregnancy state. Otherwise, you’ll be told that you didn’t give it your all and simply let it go. Well-known on the Internet, “fit moms” are proof that if you want, you can. Fortunately, there are also women like Elise Raquel. A blogger from Australia who talks about motherhood without unnecessary icing and promotes unreal expectations This young…
Labor is controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system, where oxytocin flows. Often called the “rest and digest” state, why is this important to know? When our bodies are put in a situation where we become fearful or anxious, the parasympathetic nervous system shuts down and the sympathetic nervous system takes over, aka fight or flight! When this happens, labor stops! Prodromal Labor: When contractions do not yet have a pattern! Consider your uterus to be practicing and training for the big event! Early Labor: When contractions become consistent but are not yet so close together. This is a great…
A new baby in a family is a great joy. So when future parents tell their family that they are expecting a child, grandmothers, and aunts take special care of the pregnant woman. But what if instead of one child, a woman’s ʙᴇʟʟʏ develops two or even more? Alexandra and Antonio are a couple who really wanted to have a large family. So when their first son grew old enough to be relatively independent, the couple decided to enlarge the family. Alexandra was fine, so she went for the first ᴜʟᴛʀᴀsᴏᴜɴᴅ without any worries. What the doctor said stunned the…
Birth, in all of its raw, ecstatic, wild glory is the most natural thing in the world to behold. An immense privilege to capture some of the most precious, intimate, and powerful birth stories. From the unpredictability of natural birth to the planned nature of the cesarean, new mothers and fathers prepare for an experience that can never be replicated, and birth photographers help them capture this special moment. Birth photos might seem a little weird at first. But if you had a photographer at your wedding, why wouldn’t you have a photographer there to document your baby’s first…
A 61-year-old grandma gave birth to her own granddaughter in Nebraska on Monday, after volunteering to be a ɢᴇsᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴄᴀʀʀɪᴇʀ for her son and his husband’s child. Matthew Eledge and Elliot Dougherty of Omaha, Nebraska, needed an sᴜʀʀᴏɢᴀᴛᴇ to carry their baby. They ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ expected she would turn out to be Matthew’s mother. When Matthew Eledge, 32, and Elliot Dougherty, 29, began ᴄᴏɴsɪᴅᴇʀɪɴɢ IVF as an option for ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇɪᴠɪɴɢ a child two-years-ago, the couple says they were amused by Eledge’s 61year-old mother’s offer that she’d happily be their sᴜʀʀᴏɢᴀᴛᴇ ᴄᴀʀʀɪᴇʀ Cecile Eledge having last given birth more than 30 years…
Carlene Forrester captures in her photographs the special moments of all stages of childbirth. Photographer Charlene Forrester considers childbirth to be the most important and special event. Among other things, she describes it as a strong, sometimes wild experience that requires courage and has moments of vulnerability – an experience that is different and special for each woman. In recent years, she has been exclusively engaged in maternity photography and has been awarded for her work. Last year, one of her photos was named one of the best maternity photos of 2021 by the International Association of Professional Maternity Photographers.…
A mum has spoken of her sʜᴏᴄᴋ after giving birth in her car on a busy motorway at rush hour. Leanne Parrett, 31, had spent weeks frustrated at her second child’s “stubbornness” before going into labor. Leanne Parrett, 31, suddenly went into labor at home on the day she was due to be induced. Husband Sam started driving her to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester but felt the urge to push as they were about to join the M5. Sam pulled into a lay-by and dialed 999 – but seconds later he was delivering his own son in the back…
There are big, small, high, low, loose, tight, and downright funky when it comes to baby bumps. 1.Squashing It! 2.Floating Shelf 3.POP! Goes The Woman 4.A Six-Month No Show 5.Busting Out 6.Hey Baby 7.All Gut, All Glory 8.Elfin’ Magic 9.Looking Melancholy 10.Womb Mates 11.Three Times A Lady 12.Beautiful Belly 13.The B Belly 14.A Little To The Left A Little To The Right 15.First Trimester Showdown
Eliana Rodriguez was very happy when she found out that she was expecting her second child and she was happy to share pictures of herself on social media. Much to her surprise, however, some users ʜᴇᴀᴘᴇᴅ ɪɴsᴜʟᴛs on her and sʜᴀᴍᴇᴅ her for her unusually sized and shaped ʙᴇʟʟʏ. However, she rose above the ᴄʀɪᴛɪᴄɪsᴍ. The unusually large and protruding ʙᴇʟʟʏ of 29-year-old Eliana Rodriguez from Las Vegas has attracted people’s interest, but unfortunately, often not in a good way. A few weeks before the birth of her second child, Sebastian, she shared a video that quickly went viral in…