Birthing Story, Take Two

Being a Media Mama who is almost 39 weeks pregnant means thinking a bit about how to document the birth of baby number two. We learned a few lessons after baby number one….

1. Tell husband that tape is already in video camera so he doesn’t look all over for it and give up.

2. Don’t drop and break camera the day after baby is born.

Seems like there’s no place to go but up this time, right? Fortunately, for baby number one our awesome doula had her wits together and got some great shots. Only downside was that she shot them on that old fashioned mechanism, film, and it took about 11 months to get the prints from her. Worth the wait though!

So this time we’re thinking about the following:

• Camera is charged and ready to go
• Video camera is also charged, ready to go, with tape all set in the hospital bag. Tripod in trunk of car.
• Doula in charge of stills. Husband in charge of video taping.
• First few minutes of life are more important than labor for us.
• Make sure to have some before and after that annoying red light comes on in hospital room.
• Get good family shots this time, and make sure to have video camera rolling when baby number one comes to visit baby number two.

Any other tips  or reccs?