[SWTXBelle]

I've never understood the whole "photograph everything associated with the birth" thing. Heck, as far as I'm concerned, my children came out clean and wrapped in a blanket. My ob/gyn (or family practitioner for #2) would ask "Do you want to watch?" and I would reply - "No! I'm busy!". When the ob/gyn asked my husband if he wanted to cut the cord, I piped up with "What, we're not paying you enough?". My focus was on having a healthy baby - and while I cherish the pictures of my minutes-old children, I'm also glad there aren't any of me at what was no doubt an amazing achievement for me - but one I chose to have reflected in pictures of the results. I would have HATED to think I was being videoed or photographed when in labour - and I was pretty low-key (no swearing or yelling). I have only one photo of me nursing, and it wasn't meant to be of me nursing - someone was trying to take a picture of Gypsyboots hugging her sister, and it just so happened she did it while sister was nursing. If you didn't know I was nursing her, you wouldn't know I was nursing her. That picture got to stay, but that's it.

end of rant.