The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers has revealed the contest’s 2017 winners, and the images they selected highlight both the joy and challenges moms experience during childbirth.
These fresh photographs will make you even more astounded than we did with the contest from last year. Every single one of them narrates a tale of suffering, tenacity, and, in the end, relief. They capture the early stages of a baby’s existence as well as the beginnings of a family’s bond.
Reader caution is suggested since many of the following images are strong and explicit. But they are all strong in their own particular ways.
More info: IAPBB
1. I’ve Been Waiting for You

2. Best In Category: Birth Details, Pieces of Me

3. Best In Category: Postpartum, Straight from Heaven

4. That First Gaze

5. Skin To Skin Today. Heart To Heart Always

6. Falling In Love All Over Again

7. Are You My Mama?

8. Best In Category: Delivery, With A Splash

9. Freshly Squeezed

10. First Place Winner. Road To Deliverance

11. Honorable Mentions. Catching Her Baby, Born Via Surrogacy

12. Absorb

13. The End: A New Beginning

14. The First Look

15. Honorable Mentions. Approaching Life

16. Honorable Mentions. Surprise

17. Honorable Mentions. Joyful Finale

18. Honorable Mentions. As She Rose from The Depths

19. Honorable Mentions. Hello Before Goodbye

20. A Beautiful Transition

21. Honorable Mentions. Gentle Caesarean Birth

22. The Softest Landing Pad

23. Becoming Grandmothers

24. Honorable Mentions. Before The First Breath

25. Mother’s Pure Bliss

26. Euphoric First Embrace Together

27. Honorable Mentions. Honoring The Temple

28. Birth In Colour

29. Ascension

30. Breathe

31. Bathed In the Morning Light She Welcomes New Life

32. Honorable Mentions. Birth Of A Mother

33. Honorable Mentions. 17 Years Of Waiting: A Non-fertility Miracle

34. Honorable Mentions. She Holds Her Daughter’s Fingers In Awe And Wonder

35. Superman Style Arrival

36. Raw Power

37. Looking Inside

38. The Go-to Position For Slow Labor

39. Honorable Mentions. Rapture

40. Honorable Mentions. Future Big Sister

41. First Wrinkles

42. Intertwined

43. Holding On To Strength

44. This Is Life

45. Moment To Collect

46. Christmas Eve Head Shot

47. Motherland…

48. Euphoria, Triumph

49. Honorable Mentions. She Believed She Could

50. United We Are Strong

51. Within The Waves

52. Peaceful Entry

53. Best In Category: Labor, Determination

54. Honorable Mentions. Entangled In The Cord That Ties Us

55. Hear Me Roar

56. Baby’s First Defense

57. Honorable Mentions. Droplets Of Mercy

58. The World Ahead

59. Riding The Wave
