15/11/2025
This is crowning.
What you’re seeing is the baby’s scalp gently folding and molding as they navigate through the vaginal canal.
This isn’t swelling, trauma, or “pushing out a watermelon”.
It’s the body doing what it’s designed to do.
The baby’s skull is made of plates that overlap so the head can change shape to fit through the pelvis.
This molding protects parent and the baby, allowing birth to unfold safely and physiologically.
Too often, people only see birth through medical lenses, monitors, drapes, and sterile lights.
But this is the real view of emergence.
It’s raw, natural, and powerful.
This moment isn’t dangerous.
It’s not an emergency.
It’s life in motion.
The human body working in perfect rhythm.
Let’s normalize what real birth looks like.
Let’s honor how intelligent the body truly is.
-Love,
Flor Cruz
Badassmotherbirther
