Capturing and supporting the beautiful moments that encompass Raw Motherhood
Supporting instinct-led pregnancy, physiological birth, and holistic postpartum rooted in ancestral wisdom.
Motherhood is such a beautiful & sacred time. It’s full of quickly fleeting moments, big decisions, and rawness. Moments that deserve to be captured and supported!
Preparing, supporting, nourishing, documenting and honoring motherhood!
Through photography and custom support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
Read about how the first forty days should be spent and supported
Offerings
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My name is Raw Motherhood because that’s what I capture. The slow mornings cooking breakfast in the kitchen while dancing to music holding a baby in your arms. Running around the back yard and picking veggies from your garden. Making a homemade kite in nature or having a family picnic. Sitting on your bed right after your baby is born with the placenta still attached. you and your husband dancing around the living room and nursery capturing your love and anticipation before your little one arrives, or capturing the newborn cuddles while you figure out life as a new family, or the chaos of family photos with a toddler. The photos where the love radiates out of the photo frame. That are so real RAW and effortlessly picture perfect. Whether we are in home, in a studio or outdoors you will be able to look back at these photos and they will take you back to that season of motherhood.
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Women are so undereducated on birth, on the choices that you have, The paths that you can go down, and What birth can look like. There’s mamas who have so many babies but barely know how birth works. It shouldn’t be this way, your birth should be a beautiful experience, one where you’re connected with your husband and your baby. Birth should mean having the knowledge and support to have a beautiful physiological birth. Our bodies know how to birth and they were made to birth. I offer pregnancy education and support tailored to what you need. Whether that’s emotional work, resource recommendations, someone to message and ask questions, someone to go on walks and chat. Truly what you need during pregnancy I’m here to support. And this extends to postpartum too!
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You deserve a village for postpartum, a village that most women in America don’t have. You deserve to lay in your bed, with you only worry being the baby. You deserve for the meals to be cooked, the house to be cleaned.
Postpartum should be blissful, filled with newborn grunts, milk stained tshirts, books, journaling, naps… lots of naps. Postpartum should be a time for you and your baby to get to know eachother, for you to rest and recover. You just grew a whole human for 9 months then went through a beautiful transformation. You deserve a beautiful postpartum experience and you deserve postpartum support. I think I got a little carried away… I’m very passionate about this topic. Click here to learn about what all postpartum support includes and how I’m going to take care of you!
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Birth is beautiful, birth is raw, and birth is special. Not only is it the birth of your baby, but also the rebirth of you! Mamas deserve to have an undisturbed birth. I am here to help women learn about what birth can look like, what they should be prepared for etc.. I offer birth education, birth planning, early labor grounding and setup and more.
“Every detail was thoughtfully executed. We're thrilled with the outcome.”
— Former Customer
The raw moments
Some people like to dress up motherhood, make it fit neatly, hide the chaos, wear matching clothes, photograph the perfection set up in front of a white back drop. But motherhood isn’t that black and white. I’m not ashamed of the chaos, the scrapped knees, the perfectly imperfect moments that happen without direction or a perfect pose. When I look back at photos when I’m 80, I want them to bring me back to when I was running on broken sleep, when my life was filled with chaos, tears, stress, but so much joy, love, connection. I strive to capture the beauty in the chaos, the perfect in the imperfection. The moments that God gives us, with little toes, laughter, love and connection. This is what I capture. You and your babes first matching outfit (a diaper). Baking with your family, that will definitely turn into flour all over the place.
And although 90% of my mamas that have toddlers or even older kids stress like crazy that we didn't get a single good photo because their kiddo didn't behave... once I deliver the album 100% of them love the photos and are so thankful for the beauty that I captured.
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I couldn’t be happier with our maternity photos. They are way beyond what I was expecting. From the moment we met, Kaily made us feel comfortable and helped us "pose without posing" in front of the camera, capturing not just beautiful images, but genuine emotions and connection. The shots encapsulated the essence of the moment and seemed alive with love, warmth, and the magic of this chapter in our lives. The way the light, landscape, and little moments were captured... They aren’t just pictures, they are pure art; and they are memories we’ll treasure forever. I’m so grateful for the way Kaily saw us and told our story through her lens. Truly a gift we’ll cherish for a lifetime.
Amalia Hope
Kaily was very good with my crazy toddler that did not want to take pictures. I’m not sure how she was able to capture any good photos with my daughter being so squirmy and my son running off every second but somehow she got a ton of really great pictures. She was very patient and quick. I will cherish these pictures for many years to come.
Mariah Paulus
In America women worry about bouncing back. But in other cultures motherhood is treated with respect, care, and gentleness. The first forty days is spent in the home being served by others. Women eat warm nourishing food, their village cooks for them and cleans for them and supports them. Most women here don’t have a village, they maybe prioritize the first 15 days resting but then jump right back to normal life, and some women just jump right back into life without a resting period at all. I’ve learned the value of the first forty days and the Chinese culture (look at book)
During my second postpartum experience I realized how sacred this time is and I realized how much passion I have for supporting other women during this time. Someone to support your healing with teas, herbs, oils and nourishing food. Someone to help you keep up with the to do list, the older children and your household in general. I strive to be the village for the women who don’t have one!
The first forty days
