AzFiqs Photography: The Birth of Princess MIA AMANI

I just feel so thankful for being granted such a beautiful baby girl MIA AMANI. She was born on 21st. January 2010 at 4.43PM (UK Time) in St. Mary's Hospital LONDON. We are so lucky to have a couple of baby boy and girl now. Mia's presence certainly has completed our little family.

You might wonder how it all happened. Maybe I can write up about it a little bit. This way, it could be a good way for me to later on reminisce the memory or maybe to tell MIA her birth story later in the future. So here it goes, it all started when the day before my wife had a checked up and did membrane sweep procedure which I don't actually know how to describe it here in detail. It is a procedure that is carried out to trigger out the contraction process and it's being done in all natural way, no medication or chemical involved. After that procedure, eventually my wife started to feel the painful contraction and it got stronger and stronger as day passed by.

The next morning, the contractions were getting much more painful and we somehow could feel that that was it, the this-is-the-moment feeling. It was around 10.30am in the morning and we went to the hospital. Cut the story short, after few hours of battling with the contractions and tiredness in the labor room, at 4.30pm the midwife said that my wife was already fully dilated and ready to start pushing the baby out. Then the real battle started but surprisingly it was a really controlled and calm situation. It was not really chaotic as I expected. After about 15 precious minutes with few big pushes from my wife, the baby finally came out. I was so proud of my wife. I know it was really painful but I think it's actually a lot more that I could imagine. I wish I could take my wife's place but I don't think I can actually handle the pain because I am sure the pain is just so overwhelming. I do not know how women do it especially those who give birth naturally without any painkiller like what my wife experienced for this second baby. Never ever take for granted women especially our mom and wife. They have to go through the unbearable pain to give birth. They are very special because God knows that they can take the pressure, stress and pain during the pregnancy and also during the give birth process.

Thank you so much Sayang for this beautiful gift, MIA is just so precious and beautiful baby girl. It was a totally different and yet wonderful experience for me. It was different with Adam before. I think, every child is born with his/her own special birth story. If later on, God grant us with few more babies, I will definitely want to be with my wife to support her through and through because that's the least thing that I can do and or course to witness the birth of all of my kids. Insyaallah. Thank you again Sayang and I sooooo proud of you. Love you so much.

Now I can start a new photo journal of MIA like I did and still doing it for ADAM. I think this is the best thing that I can do to watch the growth and development of my kids from the moment they are born. Insyaallah (with God's will) I will definitely keep doing this as long as I alive because this is my passion. My wife and my kids are my obsessions.

These are some of the pictures that I managed to capture during the birth process of my little princess, MIA AMANI. Enjoyce!!