Shii Just Got Real! Mother Live-tweets PHOTOS From Her Own Home Birth

A mother who live-tweeted and posted photos from her own home birth has opened up about why she thought it was important to share an honest account of the experience.

British-born blogger Ruth Iorio (née Fowler) who lives in Los Angeles, began labor on Christmas day and continued to post on Twitter about it over the next 12 hours, from the moment her contractions began to when she delivered her baby boy and was transferred to hospital for a blood transfusion.

She told the Huffington Post her aim was to open people's eyes to the 'unique experience' of home birth, 'whether attractive or not, and just be honest about it.' See more photos after the cut....

Amazing Home Birth PHOTOS That Will Bring You to Tears

     "As a doula and birth photographer, I witness wonderful births, and think they should be shared in order to demystify the experience." -  Jackie Davies

29-year-old doula and birth photographer, Jackie Davies shares beautiful photos of Julia Marincat and her husband Cris's home birth moment. "Too often, birth is portrayed as a scary and dreaded event in a woman's life," said the doula as she tries to prove otherwise. See intimate and heartwarming pictures after the cut...

German Man Gives Birth to a Baby Boy

An unidentified transgender man gave birth to a baby boy in Neukoellin district of Berlin after he became pregnant through a sperm donor. This makes him the first male in Germany to give birth, Berlin newspapers reported.

He was born a woman and has been taking hormone replacement therapies to change gender but retained all female reproductive organs.