Location: First Coast Midwifery Birth Center, Jacksonville, FL Birth photographer: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support The joy of this birth! Labor can look completely different from person to person, birth to birth. Quiet, focused births are beautiful. Roaring, screaming births are beautiful. Relaxed, casual births are beautiful. And Kayla’s definitely fell into the last category! She arrived at the birth center in active labor (a good thing, because they had quite a drive coming from southern Georgia!), full of smiles and laughter, and was able to fully enjoy her labor with her husban ..read more

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Location: St. Vincent’s Southside Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida Doula: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support OB/GYN: Ascension St. Vincent's OB-GYN - Southside Walking the journey of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with first time parents is always such a joy to me. And we literally walked together around the neighborhood, dreaming about her birth experience, completely unaware that Diana’s water would break just a few short hours later! I couldn’t be more proud to be your doula, Diana, and I’m grateful that you are sharing your story! -Dallas Tuesday, April 25th was a normal wo ..read more

Location: St. Vincent’s Clay Family Birth Place in Middleburg, Florida Birth photographer: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support Doula: Olivia Martinez of Breathe it All In Birth Midwife: Breana Matzen, CNM, ARNP of Dr. Hyler & Associates Chiropractor: Dr. Cristina Padilla of Thrive Family Chiropractic “My birthing time started around 6:30am, on Tuesday, December 27th. I was sleeping and remember having a contraction accompanied with back pain that woke me from my sleep but then I was able to go back to sleep, then I had another. At this time I got out of bed, when to the bathroom and ..read more

OB: Dr. Hyler of Dr. Hyler and Associates Birth photographer, videographer, doula: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support Location: St. Vincent’s Clay in Middleburg, Florida We had a scheduled induction at 39 weeks, due to concerns from my previous deliveries we thought this would help to provide the safest birthing environment. We arrived at the hospital at 6am as scheduled. My labor was induced with Pitocin at around 8am. A little less than two hours later, and once contractions became regular, the doctor came in and broke my water. Things started to progress slowly but surely after that ..read more

Location: home birth in Jacksonville, Florida Birth photographer: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support Midwives: Heather and Sandy of Fruitful Vine Midwifery Middle of the night births are almost holy to me. Leaving in the dark, returning before the sun rises, my own family still warm and sleeping in their beds and none the wiser to my midnight work. This sweet client of mine, welcoming her third baby, shared such a beautiful, detailed birth story…enjoy! My first contraction was at 9 pm. I was sitting on the couch after Mike (my partner) had got the kids to bed, trying to decide what I w ..read more

Location: Ponte Vedra, Florida Birth photographer and videographer: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support Midwife: Samantha Crickmore of First Coast Midwifery Mom/client and her husband: owners of Lighthouse Chiropractic As the co-owner of Lighthouse Chiropractic with her husband, Mayre supports the pregnant and postpartum women of our community day in and day out. And so it was such a joy to witness her get her own dream birth! It was a beautiful sunny morning, filled with extended family and children and the BEST Puerto Rican coffee I’ve ever had in my life! I was honored to be asked to ..read more

Location: St. Vincent’s Southside in Jacksonville, Florida OB: Dr. Yeykal of Full Circle Women’s Care Doula and birth photographer: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support After supporting Victoria through her first son’s birth, she put the due date for her next baby on my calendar earlier than any other client ever had. Because she let me know the date of her embryo transfer, happening a few months in the future! Then I got the “pee on a stick” picture (one of my very favorite kinds of texts!) and then a few weeks later the…”OMG it’s TWINS” ultrasound picture! I was thrilled to support Vict ..read more

Location: First Coast Midwifery Birth Center in Jacksonville, Florida Midwives: Caity and Sharon of First Coast Midwifery Birth photographer: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support I got a text message from Tabitha in the early hours of the morning. Her labor had started at 2pm the afternoon before and carried on through the night. It looked like this baby could very well be born right on the due date! I quietly knocked on the front door and walked into the most peaceful laboring space around 4am. “The beginning of my labor was slow and exciting, knowing that we would soon meet our baby ..read more

Location: home birth in Yulee, Florida Midwife: Maya Bence of Modern Midwives Client: Rene Pittman of Precious Moments Midwifery Photographer: Dallas Arthur Birth Stories & Support There is nothing more powerful than witnessing an empowering birth experience firsthand. Rene I have known each other for years, and our paths first crossed at a home birth in 2018 where I was the birth photographer and she was a student midwife. Since then, she has gone on to become a licensed midwife, have her first baby, and run her own midwifery practice. And then she asked me to be her birth photographer f ..read more