الجمعة، 13 مارس 2015

'I gave birth yesterday' - mothers with their brand new babies

Photographer Jenny Lewis has taken a series of portraits of mothers at a special time – just home with their brand new babies. Susanna Rustin talks to her about the project



Jenny Lewis didn’t read baby books before her children were born. “I wasn’t that anxious. I had this crazy notion that everything was going to be fine,” she says. She squeezed in one four-hour antenatal class before her daughter Ruby arrived in a birthing pool.


When she met other pregnant women after Herb, her second child, was born at home, she was struck by their anxiety: “I just saw all this fear and I had this overwhelming desire to say, ‘It’s going to be OK.’”


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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/18kZkxf

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