Analyn Pleado, 18, from the Philippines, was with her boyfriend, Ryan Bacate, 21, at the hospital waiting to give birth when suddenly, Analyn had severe abdominal pain. After a few awkward moments, her boyfriend realized that Analyn was about to give birth. Immediately, he called for help from some passersby.

Fortunately, a man who happened to be on a motorbike passing by rushed to find the midwife Norena Malate to help. Within minutes, the baby boy was born safe and healthy. Both mother and child were taken to the hospital for follow- up care.

Photographer Lynsey Addario, a member of the Child Protection team tasked with helping to build a medical facility after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, witnessed and documented his entire touching and memorable birth. baby Ryan. Jr.

“I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. A baby born on the street and healthy. It’s truly a miracle,” said photographer Lynsey.

The journey of motherhood is full of hardships without words, just looking at these pictures, surely everyone understands!

Photographer Neely Ker Fox feels embarrassed and disappointed by the stretch marks on her body after giving birth to her second child. She made the photo series “Perfect defects” about stretch marks to honor the sacrifice of the mother.

Photographer Neely Ker Fox from Georgia, Culumbus, said she has long dreamed of bringing together women who have had children to photograph them along with the changes in their bodies after giving birth.

As a mother, Neely admits she felt embarrassed, disappointed and couldn’t imagine it was her when she saw the changes in her body after giving birth to her second child. “My abdomen was split from the pelvis to the sternum, I had umbilical hernia and had to do physical therapy because of back problems. My body is full of stretch marks. I have sciatic nerve pain. All of this came after my first pregnancy,” Neely wrote.

“The stretch marks, the scars that life has created on my body, I will carry them with me until I die. I imagine myself 20 to 30 years later, at that time I was placing my hand on my soft belly. Here, sitting in an empty house and remembering some distant season in life, with old age and wisdom. A bigger picture is spread and the feelings of insecurity now will be gone, except except for the laughter in each breath.