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When you picture the moments after birth, you imagine a baby being placed on the mother’s chest. Occasionally, birthing people even reach down and grab their babies themselves, as Kourtney Kardashian famously did when delivering daughter Penelope in 2012.
“I remember always seeing scenes of women giving birth and feeling terrified, so when I had my birth experience, and it was so incredible and amazing, I just remember wanting to share that to help other women maybe not feel terrified or have that perspective,” Kardashian told Variety last year when reflecting on the experience, which was aired on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”
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