08/16/2026
I had the coolest experience and honor of attending an unexpected under the sea birth last week. Was not expecting to be at the hospital at a birth that week, and definitely was not expecting for baby boy to come two hours after I arrived. It was by far the most peaceful birth I’ve witnessed. Her hubby stayed @ her side, fanning her, holding up her affirmations audio, holding her hand. Her doula Samara Andreadis did the hard manual work of her hands on mamas lower back and reassuring her in her positive voice, her midwife Jessica Hernandez of Bloom Midwifery | Boca Raton sat at her side as she went through waves of labor and despite her labor being one of the most peaceful ones I’ve ever seen and baby boy just suddenly decided to say hello unexpectedly during a surge, handled it with absolute grace despite it not being the plan.
Doesn’t mama look absolutely beautiful like a mermaid? How appropriate given that her son is a real life merman baby boy being born through the peaceful waves of the uterus into the agua. Thank you for having me mama 🥹🩵💙💦🌊
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