It is so nice to meet you!

Welcome!!   As you probably have figured out by this point, my name is Amie Bogart.   I am a Certified Birth Doula, Childbirth Educator, Award-Winning Birth Photographer, and I also specialize in motherhood photography.

Growing up, I always had an affinity and deep interest in pregnancy and birth.   My Barbies and American Girls were moms of 15, my stuffed animals had special shirts that held their babies–making them more pregnant than stuffie, and my model horses always had a foal by their side.   As I got older and started working, I found myself at the horse farm up the street learning to "foal watch" with my best friend.   She and I were in charge of (essentially a horse doula at age 16) watching the mares who were about to have their foals, making sure that when it was actually time, the adults could be out there and do their job overwatching the birth, while not doing the heavy lifting she and I did of sitting awake at 3am on Saturday night–but I digress.

It was only as I got older that I started to connect the dots between respected labor and birth and Hollywood, traumatic labor and birth.      Soon, friends and family were having babies and sharing their stories... so many of them sounded the same. "I wanted to be alone, in the dark, with just my support–and they were constantly in and out offer medication and interventions and all of these things I didn't want... and I just wanted to be left alone."

Some friends even had scary experiences due to care teams that just didn't acknowledge or listen to them, weeks of prodromal labor, swelling, all of the "end of pregnancy" signs, but feeling like something was different–yet, the care team didn't listen until it was an emergency.

Thus began to beg the question: "WHY are women treated like this? WHY is birth treated like this??"