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Inside the Spring/Summer 2025 Issue of Everyday Birth Magazine
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Everyday Magic: Birth + Postpartum Photos from Our Fall/Winter 2025 Submission Series
A selection of 30 images from our Fall/Winter 2025 submission series — moments of labor, birth, rest, connection, and early postpartum life.
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Take a look inside the selection of images published inside our Fall/Winter 2025 issue — images that help us better understand the many ways birth can look and feel.
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Towards our mission to expand representation, twice a year we accept over 500 photo submissions, and we award and showcase the powerful stories of parents, and the work of talented photographers who have documented pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

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