October 2025

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From Birth Center to Operating Room: D’Cheya’s Birth Story | Detroit Birth Photographer

D’Cheya @thelifeof.chey mama #5 texted me on Thursday, May 22, at 9:47 am, letting me know that she was leaking fluids and was 1-2 centimeters dilated, but no contractions, and that @birthdetroit was bringing her in to try getting contractions going! She’d just had her 39-week prenatal appointment with them a day before, around 10 […]

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Briana’s VBA2C Hospital Birth Story at University of Michigan| Ann Arbor Birth Photographer

Mama # 4 Briana texted me at 5:15 pm on Saturday, May 16, to let me know that she’d been having contractions since earlier that morning and that they were getting more intense but still bearable. This is Briana’s 4th pregnancy, and her goal was to have a VBA2C! (Vaginal birth after 2 Cesareans) She

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Carrying Love Through Loss: Brianna’s Birth Story| Metro Detroit Birth Photographer

Briana, AKA mama #2, texted me at 7:39 AM on 4/7/25 to alert me that her water broke around 6a and that she was laboring at home because contractions were mild and far apart. This would be my first time supporting a client as their birth doula in addition to providing birth photography! I checked

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