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I Captured The Emotions Of Men While They’re Watching Women Give Birth (25 Pics)
For every soul we create, there is a soul that we felt a connection with first.
The one who helped us create life.
The one who watches on helplessly while the woman he loves, moans and howls through labor stages.
While we have always put each other first, mother nature drifts in to place him in the backseat while he watches them transform into one other. All without needing his assistance.
At every single birth I have attended, the men are in the background, even if they are up close with their women.
They are actually stronger than they realize.
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Carrying the irony in their faces of being able to fix everything yet somehow not able to "fix" our pain and discomfort.
It's not even the fact that we need to be saved but that they're essentially powerless to rescue in a way that they are used to being able to do.
Their empathy skyrockets in a manner that most of them have never experienced, yet they stay silent.
They do not make the situation about themselves.
Nor do they panic.
They are anxious.
Worried.
#2
Final score:
122points
Kirstie Perez (Submission author) 5 years ago
Diane, this is my brother in law. His wife had HG and almost died twice during pregnancy. I know the photo looks like he doesn't know what he is doing but this is him seeing his child for the first time :)
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Frustrated.
They do their best to not let on.
I make occasional eye contact with them to telepathically tell them that she is okay.
She will be okay.
Words are rarely spoken.
Whether through caressing us through our experience or respecting our space, they are in the shadows, observing.
#5
Final score:
93points
Reginald Joseph 5 years ago
Do not look beyond that curtain--doctors tell you not to, and it is the truth.
Witnessing two or more people being born.
They watch the women they once knew being birthed into who they are now.
It is illogical to think that the men we love & choose to be present do not experience a beautiful and gaining loss as well.
They watch the woman they love turn into a stranger who is somehow still the woman they love.
Paralyzed with the intensity before them, their empathy overrides their fear and they stay strong.
To these men, we see you and we love you.
#6
Final score:
86points
#7
Final score:
80points
Each one of us has had experiences so deeply personal that words could never adequately describe our affection for them. Early on in childhood, I recognized my sensitivity to the world. This allowed me to be perceptive in creative ways to those around me. Marveling in the details that come with documenting people's lives. I don't just take pictures. I feel them.
#8
Final score:
75points
Bringing your life to the forefront of a lens. Investing myself as much as I can to create the most intimate photos possible. Concentrating on unspoken cues and picking up hints from your worlds, while turning the images into pieces of art. Creating a genuine relationship with those who choose my services, beyond just the final product, is the most important aspect of this line of work.
#10
Final score:
68points
MBZ MetalsmithArtist 5 years ago
This could be a dad waiting for a c section- they made my husband wait outside when I was being prepared for emergency csection (after 38 hours of natural labor that stopped progressing normally). He was ushered into the operating room a moment before our son was pulled out of the incision. ...The nurse said they did it that way as a policy after having one too many expectant fathers pass out at the sight of the incision on a pregnant belly, so close to baby. They said there had been times when the fathers ended up with more stitches than mom...(though theirs were in a more comfortable location...)
#11
Final score:
62points
Summer Mason 2 years ago (edited)
I remember watching my husband's face with our boy. He had never seen a vaginal birth. All three of his kids were c section. He was so loving and encouraging and never left my side.
What inspired me to make the series of dads has everything to do with empathy. Over the years, birth partners are in the shadows and feel powerless, but they don’t realize how powerful their attentiveness and empathy really are. It gives men a chance to see that their emotional availability can be crucial to the women they love. They are not incapable.
#12
Final score:
61points
#14
Final score:
58points
Bored Toadette 2 years ago
I love that they show pictures before and after baby is born with this couple❤️
#15
Final score:
53points
#19
Final score:
42points
Wibbi 5 years ago
There's nothing... to partly exposed breast, no vagina, no newborn baby, or anything else this post is marking as so called "matrue content"! Everyone is fully clothed! How the hell is the decision for something to be "mature content" made??? I wouldn't mark anything I saw so far as "mature content"... this is life and not something that has to be hidden
#20
Final score:
42points
#21
Final score:
39points
Robyn Rob 2 years ago
I remember my husband being very calm and he let me know he was monitoring the contractions on the screen and said the one coming up wasn’t as bad. He intentionally lied. It worked. It was very painful but It helped me stay sane. I looked in his eyes and saw trust and I cling to that. My daughter is a healthy and beautiful seventeen year old and I’d do it all over again!
#23
Final score:
33points
Michelle C 2 years ago
The toilet was my best friend when I was in labor....I remember crying when they told me that I had to get back into the bed to get checked.
#25
Final score:
30points
Adrienne Mcginley 2 years ago
Love that he's in a position to catch the baby as it's being born.
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UniversalMel 5 years ago
These are very beautiful and show real and raw emotion, but none of the “Mature Content” was all that mature? I mean, maybe for a child, but still. It’s somewhat pointless to make a totally okay picture mature content that anyone on here could just click it anyways..?
Reggie Kraken 5 years ago
None of these pictures are 'mature content' - it's pathetic.
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Linouchka 99 5 years ago (edited)
Thank you for these pictures. We need our men so badly, for help, emotional support, for sheer presence. Their love is so powerful. Their mere will to help us and take our pain away from us are enough to get us through this. When we believe we can't take it anymore, they are there to tell us "You can. You can do this, you are strong, you are beautiful, I love you, I know you and I know you can." And strangely, we believe them...
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Very special and meaningful. Made me tear up. My darling, sweet husband handed me the phone while I was in labor "Want to talk to Aunt Erma?" And I loved Aunt Erma, but really?
Ivana 5 years ago
There is just no way I am giving birth without a ton of drugs. I know home births are becoming more common but they are just not for me. Nice that the option is becoming more available though for those who do choose to have a home birth though, but I have a pretty high level of fear about being pregnant in general. I wish men could give birth instead, kind of like seahorses.
Jessica butts 1 year ago
Sometimes pain relief can speed up labor anyway. I would not dilate at all until the epidural 24 hours later. Then I was 10 cm in two hours. The pain can be counterproductive if it is too strong.
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Heidi Matsumoto 5 years ago
These are truly wonderful photos. I suddenly feel so bad for women who are usually just sent by their husbands to the hospital and they give birth there alone.
SykesDaMan 5 years ago
Just before "real things" started to happen, I made my wife take a picture of me with the Fonze's "Aaaaaaaay" pose... OK, when things got serious I got emotional, but I still have those pictures (yes, every time we took one... For now ) as a funny (inappropriate?) reminder! :) Iy9Z4CC1-5...b29b0b.jpg 
Marco Hub-Dub 2 years ago
So, believe it or not, medical posttraumatic stress is a real thing. It’s quite common in situations where women have had doctors that have not believed them when it comes to pain or female reproductive issues. Women who have been gaslit by male doctors is a whole sub genre of PTSD. Often times, it’s led to situations that are much worse had they been dealt with when the woman was pleading to be heard. IV catheters are a big trigger for people with medical PTS. Imagine complaining to three male OB/GYN‘s that you have this horrendous pain and they all tell you it’s in your head or PMS, it turns out to be endometriosis/ovarian cysts and you need a full hysterectomy/o’orectomy. This s**t happens all the time. And it’s traumatizing.
BannedFromABoatShow 2 years ago
My husband said seeing me in so much pain and there’s nothing he can do was torture. But he encouraged me and held my hand and we got through it.
Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago
First of all, congratulations! Secondly, you've got this. Seriously. Best of luck to you!
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hearts4kay 2 years ago
MAN " or LADY " & idtt it should be Legal for men to give birth . That's jus me.
Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago
This was beautiful. I have three kids. Two fathers. I must say one part of me wished that they would be more "present" (they were really scared) but both cried when the child was born and that was beautiful. I understand it must be hard to witness, but supportive partners can make a major difference. To all expecting dads - read up on pregnancy and childbirth as much as possible, be informed (that will probably help with the fear) but at the same time - respect your partners wishes. Also, IF you (as a partner) have any issues after (trauma, different attitude towards sex etc) - YOU seek help for that, DON'T put that on your partner (luckily never happened to me but with friends partners who sort of "blamed" them - I feel terrible just thinking about it.)
Oogiebogieaugiedaddy 2 years ago
I gave birth 47 years ago and looking at these photos brings everything right back! I made sure I never had another baby. Thank God for all of the other mothers out there!!!
Adnana Yilmaz 2 years ago
I don’t have any kids & I never was pregnant 🤰🏼. But watching this pictures made me a little emotional and my eyes got wet 🥹
MissDemeanour 5 years ago
The guys are all thinking the same thing: "I ain't going back up there again!"
Kirstie Perez (Post author) 5 years ago
No one is denying that birth isn't hard, love. You can't compare your birth experience to everyone else's. And just because birth is hard it doesn't mean that it isn't beautiful. ♡
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Kirstie Perez (Post author) 5 years ago
Not true at all. And if any other women are reading this gentleman's comment, do me a favor and disregard and do your OWN research for YOUR own body. No one knows you better than YOU. We have options outside of hospitals ♡
Load More Replies... UniversalMel 5 years ago
These are very beautiful and show real and raw emotion, but none of the “Mature Content” was all that mature? I mean, maybe for a child, but still. It’s somewhat pointless to make a totally okay picture mature content that anyone on here could just click it anyways..?
Reggie Kraken 5 years ago
None of these pictures are 'mature content' - it's pathetic.
Load More Replies... Linouchka 99 5 years ago (edited)
Thank you for these pictures. We need our men so badly, for help, emotional support, for sheer presence. Their love is so powerful. Their mere will to help us and take our pain away from us are enough to get us through this. When we believe we can't take it anymore, they are there to tell us "You can. You can do this, you are strong, you are beautiful, I love you, I know you and I know you can." And strangely, we believe them...
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Very special and meaningful. Made me tear up. My darling, sweet husband handed me the phone while I was in labor "Want to talk to Aunt Erma?" And I loved Aunt Erma, but really?
Ivana 5 years ago
There is just no way I am giving birth without a ton of drugs. I know home births are becoming more common but they are just not for me. Nice that the option is becoming more available though for those who do choose to have a home birth though, but I have a pretty high level of fear about being pregnant in general. I wish men could give birth instead, kind of like seahorses.
Jessica butts 1 year ago
Sometimes pain relief can speed up labor anyway. I would not dilate at all until the epidural 24 hours later. Then I was 10 cm in two hours. The pain can be counterproductive if it is too strong.
Load More Replies... Heidi Matsumoto 5 years ago
These are truly wonderful photos. I suddenly feel so bad for women who are usually just sent by their husbands to the hospital and they give birth there alone.
SykesDaMan 5 years ago
Just before "real things" started to happen, I made my wife take a picture of me with the Fonze's "Aaaaaaaay" pose... OK, when things got serious I got emotional, but I still have those pictures (yes, every time we took one... For now ) as a funny (inappropriate?) reminder! :) Iy9Z4CC1-5...b29b0b.jpg
Marco Hub-Dub 2 years ago
So, believe it or not, medical posttraumatic stress is a real thing. It’s quite common in situations where women have had doctors that have not believed them when it comes to pain or female reproductive issues. Women who have been gaslit by male doctors is a whole sub genre of PTSD. Often times, it’s led to situations that are much worse had they been dealt with when the woman was pleading to be heard. IV catheters are a big trigger for people with medical PTS. Imagine complaining to three male OB/GYN‘s that you have this horrendous pain and they all tell you it’s in your head or PMS, it turns out to be endometriosis/ovarian cysts and you need a full hysterectomy/o’orectomy. This s**t happens all the time. And it’s traumatizing.
BannedFromABoatShow 2 years ago
My husband said seeing me in so much pain and there’s nothing he can do was torture. But he encouraged me and held my hand and we got through it.
Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago
First of all, congratulations! Secondly, you've got this. Seriously. Best of luck to you!
Load More Replies... hearts4kay 2 years ago
MAN " or LADY " & idtt it should be Legal for men to give birth . That's jus me.
Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago
This was beautiful. I have three kids. Two fathers. I must say one part of me wished that they would be more "present" (they were really scared) but both cried when the child was born and that was beautiful. I understand it must be hard to witness, but supportive partners can make a major difference. To all expecting dads - read up on pregnancy and childbirth as much as possible, be informed (that will probably help with the fear) but at the same time - respect your partners wishes. Also, IF you (as a partner) have any issues after (trauma, different attitude towards sex etc) - YOU seek help for that, DON'T put that on your partner (luckily never happened to me but with friends partners who sort of "blamed" them - I feel terrible just thinking about it.)
Oogiebogieaugiedaddy 2 years ago
I gave birth 47 years ago and looking at these photos brings everything right back! I made sure I never had another baby. Thank God for all of the other mothers out there!!!
Adnana Yilmaz 2 years ago
I don’t have any kids & I never was pregnant 🤰🏼. But watching this pictures made me a little emotional and my eyes got wet 🥹
MissDemeanour 5 years ago
The guys are all thinking the same thing: "I ain't going back up there again!"
Kirstie Perez (Post author) 5 years ago
No one is denying that birth isn't hard, love. You can't compare your birth experience to everyone else's. And just because birth is hard it doesn't mean that it isn't beautiful. ♡
Load More Replies... Kirstie Perez (Post author) 5 years ago
Not true at all. And if any other women are reading this gentleman's comment, do me a favor and disregard and do your OWN research for YOUR own body. No one knows you better than YOU. We have options outside of hospitals ♡
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