Four Bees Photography

When the anesthesiologist cheerfully grabbed the camera from my husband to document my son’s entry to the world via emergency C-section, neither of us had the focus nor the energy to object. We now cherish the slightly gory images, especially the one where my alien-Buddha boy is not yet fully out. He, too, is fascinated by the creature he sees in his baby book. Would I have planned to have the photos taken? No way. But I may be part of a shrinking demographic. Hiring a professional birth photographer is the latest way to snag the ultimate memory aid. If you thought births were already getting crowded with all those nurses, doulas, doctors, midwives and lactation consultants vying for space, the trend toward adding a photojournalist onto the roster is growing across North America. (Texas is a hotbed, apparently.) In Canada, there’s a new directory for parents-to-be to find a lenswoman (this is a female-dominated line of work) called Canadian Birth Photographers