It’s hard to know where to begin when describing an experience like this. It starts with a family trusting me and inviting me to take part of what is perhaps the most vulnerable experience of their lives. For weeks before the due date my phone never leaves my side and I jump every time I get a call, and then the call comes. We are giddy at the first pains, we tire as we labor together through the night, we worry a little, there is a lot of love and tenderness, we laugh in between the rushes, and at the end I always cry as the struggle ends in life. I think no other experience in my life has been as moving as being able to witness and photograph births. It sounds cliche but when you watch it unfold it really is incredible, a miracle.