Maternity Underwater
Maternity Underwater
Maternity Underwater in a Cenote – Atzin came across our Maternity Underwater images few weeks ago during a presentation we hold in Cancun. She called us few days later and said she had fallen in love with our images, especially those ones taken in the cenote to Lizeth. We just waited for her husband to be back to Cancun during a week-end and moved to a beautiful cenote just off Playa del Carmen. Yesterday, upon receiving all the photos, Atzin burst into tears, such deep was her emotion in admiring herself flying underwater. Of course, we were quite honored of her moving reaction. Here are some images of the day.
Quotes
Underwater maternity
My mother’s feeling is, we were made to do this work, and it’s not easy, and it’s inherently painful…. Pain and pleasure are a continuum, and without the pain, there would not be the pleasure. We wouldn’t have a place to slide around, and that this is just an intense experience of pain. It’s also an intense experience of pleasure, and joy and hope…. I would say that the pain is part of the glory, or the tremendous mystery of life. And that if anything, it’s kind of a privilege to stand so close to an incredible miracle. And that there’s pain involved because it’s such a tremendous event… it’s like living in a different dimension briefly. And that it’s a painful process, because it’s like two worlds colliding. ~Simone Taylor, on childbirth, quoted in Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America by Pamela E. Klassen, 2001
Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth. ~Valerie El Halta
Underwater maternity
$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding. ~Frank A. Oski
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it’s less traumatic for the baby because it’s in water. But certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. ~Elayne Boosler
Underwater maternity
Childbirth was probably easier for most women in early cultures, especially in hunter-gatherer societies, where everyone was accustomed to physical labor and supple and fit from daily activity. ~Suzanne Arms
Underwater maternity
