Newborn Photos

No, not the fancy kind, the rough and icky right there kind! I'll start from the beginning.
So after Mother's Picnic with family, we get home and she's contracting. Not bad and I know she OD on caffeine this weekend so I blew it off and she wasn't in a lot of pain, we just knew it was happening. 11hrs later it's worse and I give in and take her in, mind you I was suppose to be at work at 645 and thinking it was going to suck. We go back home at 1 after getting this pill and being told she was 2cm and they'd see us in the morning if this pill, which stops false labor, didn't work.

They neglected to tell us it will kick start real labor if she's ready and an hour later she was in pain! I take her back in thinking crap, is it time? She was still 2cm an an hour later 4cm. We were moved and there we waited and she delivered without an epidural, not by choice but rather insurance didn't cover it and I love her, but $500 was not worth it. She did fine though and now I have a baby boy! Pretty much 10hrs of labor but she slept through 2-3 with the drugs they gave her while she was expanding. I have one R rated photo which is the first shot of him coming out. I wasn't sure of her reaction and the nurse was a bit annoying so I didn't get her giving birth like I wanted. Maybe for the second one. ; )

His name is Benjamin James Carroll.

These are the best kind of newborn shots!!!

first CONGRATULATIONS!!! he is beautiful..... now about that $500 not being worth it {GASP}....... WELL I'll keep most of my opinion to myself but if I ever caught my husband saying that he would loose a few limbs! I went thru 2 deliveries without the epidural...double labour to boot with both being longer then 12 hours once I was admited to the hospital, due to finding out I was highly elergic to it during my first delivery....I would have paid $5000 or more for just a few minutes without pain....men will never even get close to understanding the pain that delivering a child brings... but to have such a low $ value attached to it stunns me.

now back to the images.... I think you did great, delivery rooms are not really ideally lit but your images turned out great. congrats again and enjoy him he will grow fast.

Yeah...but we have like no money and that's a month worth of bills and I only have 3 months worth saved up and I won't start getting military pay for like a month in so yeah...

So0o0o0o poorly lit and I took a photo of each grandparent but they're so grainy and it sucks.

_aravena wrote in post #10166259
Yeah...but we have like no money and that's a month worth of bills and I only have 3 months worth saved up and I won't start getting military pay for like a month in so yeah...

So0o0o0o poorly lit and I took a photo of each grandparent but they're so grainy and it sucks.

AHHHH.... see now that is a totally different story, if you don't have the funds then you just can't (when I read your post I thought maybe you just didn't want to spend it....LOL.... sorry some times my horns appear fast...but I do apologize if I sounded rude.
Having a child is a complete miracle and I hope you take advantage of all the photo opportunities (not only of your little one - but with you in the pictures as well, being a photographers daughter I often ask why my dad was never in any of my photos with me.... response was usually: well he was the one taking the photos).
Here's wishing you a very healthy and happy baby!

OH and regarding the grainy images, do you have photoshop? you should be able to clean them up enough with one of the noise reducing filters and if they still are not what you want convert them into b & w images.... sometimes the grainy old type photos look awesome.

We just had a baby and everything was covered by insurance. Bill for Anesthesia (just Epidural) was $2.5K and about 1.9K were paid by insurance to hospital.

congrats and he's sweet.

Well I think it totally sucks that you guy's have to pay for medical bills.... in Canada having a baby is "free" with all the med's, hospital beds/rooms (unless you want to upgrade in some hospitals its $80 per night or so) all nec. medical treatments are free to patient inluding CT scans etc. I guess we are lucky having such a good medical and childtax system.

_aravena wrote in post #10165148
$500 was not worth it.

Easy to say when your not the one pushing a watermellon out your vagina!

Congrats, ours is due in a few days.

GREAT SHOTS!

Congrats...I would have paid $1000 for my epidural. LOL. I totally understand the situation though. I look forward to seeing lots of baby pics.

blondine wrote in post #10174864

OH and regarding the grainy images, do you have photoshop? you should be able to clean them up enough with one of the noise reducing filters and if they still are not what you want convert them into b & w images.... sometimes the grainy old type photos look awesome.

Tried it...they're just very out there. Wish I had my 40D although wouldn't have changed too much, but it's been giving be charge issues. Never the less, they're not bad at a 4x6 size.

Thanks everyone! Truth is, she was quite ok without the epidural. She's a very strong woman and the doc to give it was never around so pay or no pay, there was no one to give it to her in time.

I remember shooting that kind in 1979 when my twins were born. These bring back happy memories.

Congrats!!! With my girlfriend not doing well with pain, I would of paid 10,000 for the epidural, although insurance covered it all!!

The lil dude is in style. He has a mohawk. Cute kid

blondine wrote in post #10178842
Well I think it totally sucks that you guy's have to pay for medical bills.... in Canada having a baby is "free" with all the med's, hospital beds/rooms (unless you want to upgrade in some hospitals its $80 per night or so) all nec. medical treatments are free to patient inluding CT scans etc. I guess we are lucky having such a good medical and childtax system.

We're not lucky, we're privileged. We pay for it all, it's part of our income taxes and take home a MUCH lower percentage of gross income than the average American worker because of it. We may have less disposable income but when we need the medical care, for the most part it's available at no charge. Our system might not be perfect but a national health care has many pluses to it's society.

OP - wonderful images which will bring you many memories. Your son is beautiful! I had an epidural as my son felt he should enter the world face first (he didn't read the delivery instructions). He was finally delivered by c-section but the hours of labour prior to the epidural were tough. Affordability shouldn't enter into childbirth, but I'm pleased your wife was trooper!