Anna Garvey Photography

Anna Garvey Photography hi! i’m anna!
• believer • wife • mama • charlotte area birth + motherhood photographer •

I truly don’t have words — honored, humbled, grateful — none of them fully describe how I’m feeling. I truly feel like I...
03/14/2025

I truly don’t have words — honored, humbled, grateful — none of them fully describe how I’m feeling. I truly feel like I’m living a dream. 😭🤍

I have been completely MIA from my insta lately — after we lost our 5th baby, I lost a lot of motivation to do anything (but especially keep up with socials). Birth photography, though incredibly hard and emotional at times when navigating my own grief, has been such a place of peace and joy and life for me. To be completely honest though, I’ve had MAJOR imposter syndrome lately and have considered calling it quits.

I started documenting births about 18 months ago, and just last year I entered my first birth competition and got a few bronze and honorable mention awards and was ECSTATIC. I felt so confident and valued, but then the lies started coming in and I felt like a true imposter — untalented and truthfully like a failure. This year, I somehow missed that image competition had come and gone, but THANKFULLY they extended the deadline and I happened to see that post (legit I submitted on I thiiiink the last day haha), and just found out this morning that I won BEST OVERALL. 😭😭😭

Image of the Year, I cannot believe it. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to submit my images, but even more so, I’m so grateful to get to do this. To IAPBP, thank you for giving me my spark back. 🥹🫶🏼 And to the families that have trusted me to document some of the sweetest (and some of the hardest and heaviest ❤️‍🩹) moments, “thank you” will never ever be enough.

I’m honored.
I’m overwhelmed.
I’m grateful.
I’m in awe.

Love to you all. 🤍

I’m a firm believer in the benefits of a doula, but I also truly feel the support from a partner is unmatched. I love do...
06/09/2024

I’m a firm believer in the benefits of a doula, but I also truly feel the support from a partner is unmatched. I love documenting moments like these. So many are shocked (and I think a little appalled tbh) when I say I’m a birth photographer, but they only think about that ONE moment (you know the one I’m talking about lol), but these moments, man these are the ones I never want to forget in my own birth. THESE are what I love to document.

“Oh that wasn’t so bad.” Forever one of my favorite directly post birth quotes. 😂 Happy International Homebirth Day! The...
06/06/2024

“Oh that wasn’t so bad.” Forever one of my favorite directly post birth quotes. 😂

Happy International Homebirth Day! The privilege to document home births in a state that doesn’t support a women’s right to birth where she chooses will never be lost on me. I cannot believe I get to do this. AND I documented a sweet babe being born just ONE hour into this special day! Pics of that birth will come soon! But guys… I. Am. So. Grateful.

To all moms everywhere — the already mamas, the soon to be mamas, the should be mamas, the hopeful to be mamas — I see y...
05/12/2024

To all moms everywhere — the already mamas, the soon to be mamas, the should be mamas, the hopeful to be mamas — I see you, I love you, and you’re incredible. 🤍

Happy Mother’s Day. 🫶🏼

Watching these two labor together to bring their baby earthside will forever be one of the sweetest things I’ve had the ...
05/11/2024

Watching these two labor together to bring their baby earthside will forever be one of the sweetest things I’ve had the privilege to document. This dad never left her side, supported her in any way she needed, held her up emotionally and physically, cried with her, and even packed the powdered hostess donuts he predicted she’d want.

Yes, the moment of birth is obviously so fun to capture, but I’ll forever love documenting these sweet connection moments, too. 🤍

You may have heard water referred to as “natures epidural”, but did you know there’s even more benefits to laboring/deli...
03/27/2024

You may have heard water referred to as “natures epidural”, but did you know there’s even more benefits to laboring/delivering in water than just an amazing tool for pain management?

Research has found water immersion in labor/delivery also includes:
* Less use of Pitocin to speed up labor
* Less use of injectable opioids for pain management
* Less use of epidurals
* Reduced pain levels
* Higher rates of intact perineum in obstetric settings
* Lower rates of episiotomy
* Lower risk of postpartum hemorrhage
* Lower rates of maternal infection
* Higher rates of maternal satisfaction

AND, most standard monitoring/checks can be performed under water (as seen here)! Did you know water birth had these benefits? Or, did you have a water birth yourself? I’d love to hear about it!

“The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are va...
03/07/2024

“The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.” -Ina May Gaskin

This images is one of my favorite and it reminds me so much of this quote. Dad, ready and waiting to catch baby. Big sister, peering over mama excited to meet her new brother. The midwife, happily watching hands off. And grandma, on standby to provide more hot water if her baby wants it.

This mama was so well cared for. She was loved, she was honored, she was supported, she was believed in. And in return, she could bask in labor land. I want that for all mamas. We all deserve to have a birth team like that. 🤍

The warmth of the morning sun and skin to skin with your brand new babe, I’m not sure there’s anything in the world quit...
02/29/2024

The warmth of the morning sun and skin to skin with your brand new babe, I’m not sure there’s anything in the world quite like that combo. 🥹🤍☀️

My Motherhood Minis are LIVE! 🤍Get all those sweet memories with your littles captured (in time for you dads to frame th...
02/22/2024

My Motherhood Minis are LIVE! 🤍

Get all those sweet memories with your littles captured (in time for you dads to frame them by Mother’s Day 😉) in this beautiful greenhouse set up.

Click the link below to book! There’s still a decent few amount of slots left! 🤍

https://book.usesession.com/s/JBsdGcNf8

I asked, you guys answered... You wanted more than just birth images here, so more it is. 😍 I figured what better way th...
02/22/2024

I asked, you guys answered... You wanted more than just birth images here, so more it is. 😍 I figured what better way than to start than with my favorite thing about newborn sessions… all the sweet details. 🥹

You can’t tell me there’s anything better than tiny toes and peach fuzz. 🥹

I’m not so sure there’s anything much sweeter than a new baby holding their dad’s finger. 🥹🤍.
02/09/2024

I’m not so sure there’s anything much sweeter than a new baby holding their dad’s finger. 🥹🤍.

It’s never too late to book (until it is!). 😉🤍
01/31/2024

It’s never too late to book (until it is!). 😉🤍

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