Jessica Winter writes about the photographer Maggie Shannon’s black-and-white images of childbirth in the COVID era, now collected in the monograph “Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy.”
Babies born at home accounted for just one and a half per cent of total births in the U.S. in 2022 . But this represented the highest over-all rate in some thirty years, and an increase of fifty-six per cent since 2016. The mothers-to-be whom Shannon photographed, she told me, were often “worried about laboring alone, or they thought that being in a hospital during a pandemic is pretty scary.
The watchful, gentle competence of the ob-gyns, midwives, and nurses who see a pregnancy through to its end is a refrain across Shannon’s photographs, including one in “Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy” in which three midwives gather around a startled mother and her oven-fresh newborn, umbilical cord still attached. One of the midwives, Chemin Perez, is wearing the shy, proud smile of a job well done.
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