Once Upon a Time

Newborn photography is incredibly challenging, but it’s so amazing to be a part of baby’s life when they are just days old.
There’s a bit of prep and planning that needs to go into these sessions to make them more successful though. We’ve compiled
a few tips below to help us get the very best out of your upcoming newborn session.
LET’S PENCIL YOU IN!
We recommend that you schedule your newborn session PRIOR to your baby’s birth to ensure a spot on our calendar. Contact
us during your second trimester and we’ll pencil you in.
Then, shoot us an email soon after you deliver so we can arrange a time for the session.
(And we always feel super special when dad’s put us on the official “baby is here!” call list!)
BIRTH DAY!
Newborn sessions MUST be scheduled within the first 10 days of life. However, the BEST time is between 3-7 days after their
arrival. We’ll be moving them around and scrunching them into those sweet sleepy newborn images, so we want to make sure
they’re sleepy enough to allow us to handle them.
Plus, babies just tend to do a lot better with the session within their first 7 days.
Somewhere around day 8 they discover the joy that is stretching! Once that happens…they’re not about to let us get them into
those curly poses without a fight! After day 10, it’s almost impossible to get baby into that deep sleep that came so easily in
their first few days…so it’s unlikely that we’ll be able to get them into any of the more bendy newborn poses. Keep in mind that
newborn acne (and sometimes colic) is likely to flare up after day 14. While we can easily edit problem areas, we prefer to do as
little retouching as possible to baby’s skin.
WHERE?
Newborn sessions can take place in your home or in-studio. If the weather is warm enough and you’re comfortable with the
idea, we can take the session outdoors. (Baby being all pose-y and cute in a big, open field or at the base of an old tree?
SWOON!). Worried because your house is a mess? Don’t even stress out! You just had a BABY! If you didn’t have dishes piled in
the sink, dirty clothes and baby items strewn all about, we’d think you were weird. Clutter is definitely expected! We’ve shot inhome
sessions in the middle of moving in/renovating and in some very tiny spaces…and rocked them! We really don’t need
much space and can shoot around any problem areasWe’ll also probably be moving furniture around if we need to make room
for ourselves, but don’t worry – we’ll put it all back when we’re through!