Deborah Lundbech's photos with the keyword: homebirth

Somewhere deep in cloud - cuckoo land between contractions. Midwife Carol applying pressure to my lower back and easing the discomfort. May 20, 1986.

Midwife Melissa checks in with me but I'm deep in my own head - a million miles away between contractions. May 20, 1986.

Less than a minute old - his cord is still attached. May 20, 1986. What a chubby newborn he was!

The county paper wanted to do a story on home birth, so they called the local midwives and asked if they could come and do an interview. Carol (holding baby Lizzie) and Melissa (not pictured) thought of us, three best friends who had already been at four of the five births between us. We ended up having ten children between us, nine of them home births. (Sorry, Colin.) And sharing in those births together was an incredible experience. We showed up for the interview totally unprepared for a photographer (obviously!) - so we look less than groomed. LOL I look like I'm wearing a corn fertility crown, but it's really a dried flowers arrangement in the window. Although, I am five months pregnant with Owen, so I guess it could have been. : ) L to R: Jacquie, who had just had Lizzie, me, Carol holding Lizzie, and Andrea holding Rylan. Summer, 1988.

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...is what Midwife Carol's shirt says. Jacquie holding Gabriel for the first time. May 20, 1986

Colin feeling the kicks of his brother Gabriel - who will be coming soon. May 1986. I'll be posting Gabriel's birth pictures in anticipation of his own little boy Henry who will be born in March.