Calgary Newborn Session - The photos I wish I had
I love the photos I have of my kids when they were newborns. I went with the posed studio ones… because I didn’t know that lifestyle newborn photography was an option. I wish I did and I will tell you why…
My partner doesn’t take photos… If I showed you the limited photos I have of me holding my babies when they were that small, you would turn away in abject horror!
Dramatic? Maybe. True? Absolutely!
I truly don’t even remember mine being that small. When I held baby Evie, I couldn’t picture mine being that little and mine were smaller!
For scale, look at the size of momma’s thumb and the size of little Evie’s hand next to it. Do you remember when your babies hands were that small?
My favourite thing about in-home newborn lifestyle sessions is that you are in YOUR HOME! The first place you brought your baby home to. The space where you learned how to be a parent, the place you watched your partner become a parent. Where you learn together and grow together and get to know an entirely new human you created.
Those early days are precious and fleeting. How quickly you forget how gingerly you held her, how carefully you changed her diaper (is it too tight? Not tight enough? Where is the manual for this kid?). How quiet the house was when you were feeding. How did she grow out of this onesie before she even had a chance to wear it? How you used to just sit and stare at her… for hours, amazed and enthralled.These little moments go away so fast and it is such an honour to be invited into a home to capture them…
The raw, beautiful, uncertainty of life.
