BIRTH UNDISTURBED

"Photographer captures stunning nude images of underwater births"

14 Oct 2018 by Media Drum World / Natalie Morris

"A photographer has captured beautiful underwater images appearing to show new mothers shortly after they have given birth. The photo series celebrates the undisturbed beauty of water births, showing mothers and babies still connected by the umbilical cord. The photographer, Natalie Lennard, uses prosthetic babies in her shoots to create the effect."

"Photographer reveals the beauty of water births"

13 Oct 2018 by Media Drum World / Sam Blanchard for The Mail Online

''These pictures celebrate the beauty of water births and forms part of a wider project, Birth Undisturbed.

"One of the main triggers for beginning this project has been my own experience becoming a mother,' said Ms Lennard. 'In 2013 our first child was diagnosed at 32 weeks in-utero with a fatal condition called bilateral renal agenesis, or Potter's Syndrome. We decided to continue our original plan to have a homebirth for the most peaceful end to his life.

"After, we went on to have a healthy daughter in 2015, also born at home. Both of my births were very much "undisturbed" and I wanted to use that essence to share universally for women in all situations of birth."

"Mum takes breathtaking pics of waterbirths after the death of her own baby"

13 Oct 2018 by Media Drum World / Josie Griffiths for The Sun, UK

"The serene images show the mums completely nude, immersed under water and cradling silicone 'babies', who are still attached by the umbilical cord.

"Many women birth in pools for the pain relief, mobility and autonomy it gives them in labour. But what is also little known is that there is a deeper philosophy to waterbirth.

“In the final ocean image, I wanted to hark back to the primitive history of water birth. We have actually given birth for thousands of years in water. Only in modern times has it reappeared as a form of fad or trend."

"How Natalie Lennard Turned The Queen Giving Birth Into a Piece of Art"

10 March 2018 by Tom Sykes for The Daily Beast

The birth of the Queen’s youngest child has been dramatized by the artist and photographer Natalie Lennard, the latest in a series of works by the artist themed around childbirth.

“I don't think many people even know she had all her children at home. Just a short 50 years or so have somewhat brainwashed us to think birth belongs in the hospital"

"Artist promotes homebirth with striking film of the Queen's labour"

5 March 2018 by Joanna Tweedy for Femail / MailOnline

"An artist has painstakingly recreated the Queen's natural labour with her fourth child, Prince Edward, in 1964 to show how the monarch broke with royal traditions. 

"The controversial footage graphically depicts the Queen during the final stages of labour and asks the question whether a royal home birth might happen again for the first time in 54 years when the Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to her third child this summer."

"Beverley Turner Says We Need To Stop Being Squeamish About Childbirth"

3 March 2018 by Beverley Turner for London's Biggest Conversation & radio interview about Birth Undisturbed