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Photographer observing the grief ...
finding it impossible to detach herself from the "Triangle of Detachment"
Surgery ...... Mother
Baby
Strapped arm wanting ... needing ...
to not feel empty
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my heart aches looking into that momma's eyes...a pain all to familiar.
ReplyDeleteJust looking at that photo... the look in that woman's eyes... I am back in the operating room.
ReplyDeleteYour photos alway speak volumes. The emotions - fear, passion, pain, sadness, joy, relief, sacrifice - all reach out from the image to the viewer. I hope you one day publish a book. Thank you Patti.
ReplyDeleteWow...I just found your blog and I've been eating up your amazing photography. This photo took me right back to that same moment for me...your comment sums it up so effectively. A painful but perfectly captured image. Gotta go get some tissues...
ReplyDeleteThis is such an emotionally charged photograph. I had home births but I want to cry just seeing this.
ReplyDeleteI had a hospital birth and I was able to hold the baby right afterwards for a moment...laying on my back and then I had to hand my daughter to my husband while the nurse pushed down on my uterus and took nearly an hour to "clean me up" and sew a small tear. I have a lot of anger built around that moment. Wanting to hold my baby so badly and unable to do it. Cannot wait for my next birth...which will take place at home. :D
ReplyDeleteYes there is an emotional hurt when having to do a C-section and longing to hold your baby. However, when medically necessary - at least the baby is healthy and alive. If it weren't for the c-sections of my last two babies (I have 4 children) my kids may never have entered this world alive and well.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure I understand. Why is it so sad? Shouldnt it be a happy moment?
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