Decorating the Tree - Family Documentary Session - Shoreline, Wa

December 17, 2023 Morgan Petroski

A quick sneak peek from a documentary family session where they decorated the tree together! Baby Frances loved watching her family decorate and wanted to be part of the action at all times! :)

Birth of Baby Oscar - Swedish First Hill - Seattle, Wa

November 27, 2023 Morgan Petroski

A quick sneak peek from the birth of Oscar. He was really really cozy on the inside. So cozy it took two inductions to meet him. This left his sweet parents overjoyed to finally meet him when it was time. Little one, you are loved so very much!

Birth of Baby Calvin - Evergreen Hospital - Kirkland, Wa

October 23, 2023 Morgan Petroski

The birth of Calvin.

He arrived faster than anyone expected. I think he was just ready to meet everyone. Inductions are typically long, sometimes they can even take multiple days. Amy’s induction went from a second dose of misoprostol to birth in about 6 hours! As her contractions built, Jeff supported her every step of the way. As the moment of birth neared, Jeff gloved up and stepped in to help catch their baby. There’s something extra sweet about a partner catching their baby. After birth, Calvin had a very short stay in the NICU for observation while he cleared some fluids but soon the entire family of three were reunited back together in postpartum. Little Calvin weighed 6 lb 8 oz at birth and was born at 10:32am on October 21st.

Welcome Calvin!

(P.S. - Check out the cutest little swirl of hair I think I’ve ever seen.)

Birth of Baby Golden - Puget Sound Birth Center - Kirkland, Wa

September 28, 2023 Morgan Petroski

The one truth about birth. Every birth is different. Even when this is your third birth. They still manage to surprise you.

Labor began during a crazy thunder storm on Monday night. We all headed to the birth center only a short time after a heads up, as Diana’s last birth was a quick one. However, Golden had other plans. Her mother worked so hard throughout the night, then night turned to morning, then morning to afternoon. She was exhausted. But the amazing thing about birth is sometimes you surprise yourself. With the care and encouragement of her midwife, her mother, and her husband she gathered all her remaining strength and roared Baby Golden out on September 26th.

It’s safe to say with a build up like that everyone was more than ready to meet this little one. Welcome Golden. You have the strongest mother.

A mother in labor, holds her belly up as she works through a contraction outside under the night sky as her husband touches her belly and supports her.

A midwife supports a mother in labor at the Puget Sound Birth Center.

Husband lovingly kisses his wife's shoulder as she lays in a bed at the birth center while in labor.

A pregnant mother is framed in a doorway during her labor at Puget Center Birth Center.

A husband reaches out to support his wife in labor in the birthing tub at Puget Sound Birth Center.

A family gathers round a birth tub as a mother labors.

A mother grips her husband and mother between contractions while pushing out her baby at Puget Sound Birth Center.

A mother roars as she pushes out her baby.

A mother and father look down lovingly at their newborn daughter immediately after birth at Puget Sound Birth Center.

Puget Sound Birth Center midwife cares for baby and mother immediately after birth.

A newborn baby rests on her mother's chest immediately after birth.

Big brother, big sister, and dad, gather round and admire a freshly born baby as mom and baby rest in bed.

A midwife at Puget Sound Birth Center beams with happiness as she holds a freshly born baby.

Mother and baby take an herbal bath together fresh after birth. Baby is still connected to their placenta.

A newborn baby cries during an herbal bath after birth. Herbs and flower petals float around her in the tub.

Newborn baby nurses while in a herbal bath with her mother while her placenta is still attached for delayed cord cutting.

Entire family takes an herbal bath together postpartum at the Puget Sound Birth Center in Kirkland, Wa.

Newborn baby is swaddled on a bed at the Puget Sound Birth Center only a few hours after being born.

Black father kisses his newborn daughter on the forehead only a few short hours after birth.

Family looks on adoringly at the new baby that was just born at Puget Sound Birth Center.

Birth location: Puget Sound Birth Center

Midwife: Amanda Ferre of Eastside Midwives at Puget Sound Birth Center

Birth of Baby L - Virginia Mason - Seattle, Wa

September 28, 2023 Morgan Petroski

After a few days of prodromal labor and then finally a quick, beautiful, and peaceful labor on the morning of September 25th, Baby L was born. His mother strongly and gracefully birthed him in the water and then welcomed him into her arms. Welcome little one!