Baby's first breath: Breathtakingly intimate pictures capture the miracle of birth and the first seconds of life in all their raw glory.

                                        Warning: Graphic content; Respected Danish photographer Suste Bonnen was given unprecedented access to the maternity ward at Copenhagen University Hospital for the extraordinary candid portrait of labour. Her compelling pictures show babies the instant they are born even before they are given over to the safety of their mother's arms. In the working world of the hospital Suste still managed to get great pictures despite having just the surgery lights to shine on her subjects - no flash was allowed.  A photographer has captured the wondrous, miraculous moment of birth - in all its raw and unglamourised glory.

Taken before a mother has seen her baby for the first time these amazing photographs show the reality of how we all enter this world.
The warts and all pictures are the work of respected Danish photographer Suste Bonnen who was given unprecedented access to mothers while they were in labour.
Suste, 65, who has worked as a portrait photographer for 30 years, was given permission to take these remarkable shots at the Copenhagen University Hospital.

Now she has produced this stunning body of portraits of perhaps the most exposed moment in any person's life. Her compelling pictures show babies the instant they are born even before they are given over to the safety of their mother's arms.

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