A week ago today, I had the best day ever! I was lucky enough to be in the delivery room to capture Oliver’s much anticipated arrival into the world.

Lauri did the most amazing job capturing Florence’s birth, so needless to say, there was a LOT of self-imposed pressure to do a great job. [Side note: I just looked back through those photos now and I somehow love them even more than I did then. How is that even possible?!]

Since this was Lauri’s second baby and Finley had come the day before her due date, I spent the three weeks leading up to the delivery anxiously awaking in the middle of the night to check my phone and make sure that I hadn’t missed a call. Of course the little stinker decided to come a few days late instead of early. :-) When I got the call at 5:30am last Wednesday, I was beyond excited. You would have thought that I was having the baby. I wound up getting to the hospital around 11am and things quickly progressed until she was ready to push a bit before 4. I feel like the birth story is Lauri’s to tell, but I have to say that just being in the room when he was born was an incredible adrenaline rush and although I’m not a big crier, I totally cried! I really can’t even put into words what an honor it was to capture all the love and happy emotions and hard work that went into Oliver’s birth. If you are on the fence about having your own delivery photographed, I can tell you first hand that you should absolutely do it! I know there are lots of reasons why people say they wouldn’t want to do it, but there is nothing that can compare to having the first few moments after your baby is born captured.

Soooo…in honor of his one week birthday, here are the photos from Oliver’s delivery!

And here is the slideshow of Oliver’s birth.

Have you ever seen anyone look so lovely after pushing out a baby?!