A woman with long brown hair wearing a beige dress, sitting on a sandy beach, smiling with her eyes closed, with palm trees and cloudy sky in the background.
A family of three with pumpkin head masks standing in a field during sunset, celebrating Halloween.
A woman with tattoos holding a young girl in a loving embrace outdoors during sunset, with warm sunlight highlighting their faces.
A romantic couple standing close in a grassy outdoor field at sunset, touching foreheads, with trees and hills in the background.
A woman and a young girl sitting on a blanket in a grassy outdoor setting with trees, the girl pointing to something in the distance.
A couple in wedding attire running through sandy desert dunes, smiling and embracing each other during sunset.
A woman and a young girl hugging outdoors, smiling and enjoying a sunny day with trees in the background.
A smiling woman with long dark hair, wearing a light beige dress, standing behind a large tree with broad green leaves, partially on a sandy beach under sunlight.
A young girl with curly blonde hair in a brown dress kisses a woman with long brown hair in a black dress in a greenhouse with hanging and potted flowers.
A woman with long brown hair smiling and standing in a grassy field during sunset with leafless trees in the background.

Hey There, I’m

Amanda Wloka

And I’m more than one thing or one kind of person, I’m a lot of things all at once, but the most important titles to me are: Child of God, Wife, and Mother. Everything I do flows from those three relationships (and they’re what make me so good at what I do). 

I’m a Vilseck based birth and family photographer capturing moments in Bavaria, Germany I’m a creative and a storyteller and I find the most joy when I can serve people through my ability to take a moment and turn it into art. I'm a candle-lighting, mood-setting hippie, with an unparalleled love for supporting women through birth and helping them see the intrinsic power of their bodies. As both a birth photographer and a certified doula, I serve families within an hour or so from Vilseck, Germany, including Nuremberg, Sulzbach Rosenburg, Amberg, Weiden, Grafenwöhrer, Rose Barracks, St.Marians, and Regensburg.. I am most in love with documenting freebirths or unassisted births, home births, and birth center births. I have a deep passion for capturing births and families but am MOST fulfilled by those things when we become friends in real life.

I'm a Florida native living in Bavaria, photographing beautiful stories and raising my sweet daughter and son. I mostly would call myself a hippie but I’m not nearly as wild as I wish. I dream about free birthing, homeschooling, and living on a lot of land somewhere warm with chickens and free-range children.

My life is one big testimony to God’s faithfulness and perfect timing.

SOME THINGS YOU MAY

WANT TO KNOW IF WE’RE

GONNA DO THIS THING

01. I don’t co-parent with the government

02. Sufferer of chronic migraines

03. I love the ocean but am a horrible swimmer

04. Pro medical freedom

05. Crunchy as a mother (iykyk)

06. Homeschool mama

A woman is giving birth in a hospital bed, crying and holding her newborn baby.

 WhyBirth Work?

In June of 2018 I gave birth in the hospital to my long-awaited first baby, a little girl I named Elena Grace. The experience of her birth, while seemingly normal and uneventful from the outside, had a profound impact on my life from that day forward. In fact, it taught me many things about myself, my personality and my past that have completely influenced the person I am today. It taught me that while I have a deep respect for medicine, I also have a fear and general mistrust of doctors and hospitals and experience a great amount of anxiety being in them and at their mercy. This birth taught me that I am incredibly strong, capable and not just enough to raise my daughter but competent enough to make decisions for her and be the sole authority of what is best for her.

Out of all of that though, it taught me that I had preexisting trauma that would make it hard for me later on to recount simple details of this day, however significant it was to me. Birth has this way of creating a fog over everything and, adding in some pre-existing trauma, the birth story I told myself was very different from reality. While I did have a birth photographer, there were many important details not documented that I vaguely remembered taking place. It was hard to try to piece together the parts of my birth that were right on the tip of my tongue so to speak.

And that is why I am so incredibly passionate about what I do. I do my best to help you remember all of the little and big moments of your birth story, whether they seem significant at the time or not. I would rather overshoot and over-deliver than leave you with gaps in your birth story.

Image by Maxine Cadman

 Provider & Hospital admiration

A woman with glasses and a bun is hanging a colorful patterned fabric in front of a woman lying on a bed, with a woman in a striped dress observing in the background.
A pregnant woman in a hospital room with a nurse assisting her, and another person lying in bed nearby.
Black and white photo of modern multi-story hospital building with trees and parked cars in foreground.
An elderly woman with glasses and a gray shirt stands beside a shirtless man on a hospital bed, both looking at a set of keys hanging from a ceiling fan with excitement. The background features warm string lights and a nightstand.
A woman with gray hair and glasses is using a stethoscope on a pregnant woman giving birth, surrounded by children in a cozy room with brown curtains and string lights.
A woman wearing glasses holds a newborn baby on a hospital bed. The setting appears to be a medical or birthing room with a fan and window blinds in the background.
A woman kneeling inside an inflatable swimming pool and a woman lying with her head submerged, likely taking a bath or in a meditative pose, in a living room.
A woman using a stethoscope to listen to a newborn baby lying on a blanket on a hospital bed.
A medical professional, wearing a face mask and gloves, helping deliver a newborn baby during childbirth in a hospital setting.
A woman wearing gloves and a stethoscope is lying on a bed, listening to a newborn baby wrapped in a blanket with the words "love" written on it. A man stands nearby with his hand on his hip, wearing a striped shirt.
A woman in black clothing is holding a newborn baby close to her chest, with her hands supporting the baby. The scene appears intimate and warm.

What Mothers Are Saying

“Amanda’s heart for what she does is easy to see and feel. She has a deep regard for birth and does a beautiful job capturing what a sacred and intimate time it is in a woman’s life. My labor was anything but quick/short but Amanda was there and ready to hold space and did so for almost three days. Her calm and peaceful energy is a blessing to any laboring mom.”

-Alyssa Dodd