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Congratulations!!

on your expanding family. Thank you for considering me to capture your newborn. Newborns are where I started in photography and what I love doing most of all. If I captured your wedding, I am even more thrilled you are here. I love documenting peoples lives and documenting more than one milestone is extremely rewarding.

I've been called the baby whisperer due to being very skilled at putting babies to sleep. I have 3 younger siblings that I helped raise and I've babysat many babies in my time. I discovered Anne Geddes when I was in high school, I think that's where the love of a cute sleeping baby came from.

My main objective while capturing a newborn is to create timeless art you can cherish for the rest of your life and can pass down for your future great-grandchildren to cherish as well.

All Packages Include:

  • custom portrait experience
  • hand-edited digital images
  • online gallery to view & download images​ with printing rights
  • use of studio, newborn hats / wraps / outfits and headbands
  • and me - the best baby whisperer in town

*prints and photo products sold separately 


All sessions are baby led - baby is not forced into any poses or wrapped too tight to restrict movement.
When baby is hungry they eat - when they are done, they are done.

Newborn Magic Session

$450

Family & pets welcome
Studio or In-Home
Clothed, wrapped & naked
Session can last up to 3 hours
posed, candid & prompted

Includes 45 edited digital images
+ b&w versions of the ones you choose

Basic Sessions

$250 - Just the Baby
$250 - Just the Family
$325 - Baby & Family

Studio or In-Home
Clothed or wrapped
Session lasts about 40 minutes
60 minutes for Baby & Family

Includes 15 edited digital images
20 for Baby & Family 

additional digital files are available for purchase through the gallery

 

Newborn Magic Session

Sit back and be amazed at the wonderful imagery we create featuring your little nugget. Let me work my magic, rocking your little one to sleep, posing them is such a way to melt your (and my) heart.

During this session we'll use a mixture of posed and natural candid moments to create a variety of images for you to love forever. While the new babe is the spotlight of this session, the whole (immediate) family including pets are more than welcome.

Poses include baby wrapped in baskets and buckets, naked in cute hats and diaper covers, fully naked with bum up poses and / or with mom, dad. Posing includes baby on belly and nakie poses. They will pee, it will be ok.

This session can happen in your home or in my studio, whichever is most convenient for you and your family.

  • Best captured 5 - 14 days of birth

 
 

Basic Newborn Session

I understand not everyone is looking for a ton of newborn photos and just want a simple newborn session to document your new baby. These session are more face paced and do not include any belly or naked poses. The sessions are still tailored to you and use your color preference when setting up. However if baby is an angel, well I can't help doing what I do.

Just The Baby -  Baby is either wrapped or clothed so they stay sleepy and warm. Baby is placed in a basket or on a solid color background. Includes 1 prop set up.

Just The Family - This session is just the baby with the family. Baby really doesn't leave hands. Baby is wrapped or clothed. Photos of the family, mom with baby, dad with baby, closeups of baby in your hands, baby with siblings.

Baby & Family - This is a mixture of the 2 basic sessions a little bit of family and a little bit of just baby. 

 

tips for a great newborn session

  • It's easiest to capture newborns between 5 and 14 days
  • The studio will be 80-85 degrees - a warm baby is a sleepy baby
  • Try to keep baby awake for an hour or 2 before coming out to the studio. This helps them be sleepier and easier to work with. 
  • They'll probably fall asleep in the car, that's ok.
  • Feeding is also essential to a happy sleepy baby. Feeding before you leave the house helps settle gas before you get to me. If you don't feed before you leave, just be prepared to feed when you get to the studio or when the baby starts to fuss too much.
  • If we are doing family pictures I like to start with them, unless the baby is super sound asleep this way you are less glowey (sweaty). 
  • Feel free to bring anything you want in the photos - stuffed animal, blanket, name art headbands, hats, anything you'd like to watch them grow with.
  • You can always bring multiple outfits and let me pick what we use. I love a simple onesie. Babies look so silly in clothes until they can fill them out 
  • We will do naked pictures if the baby pees or poos, it happens. It won't be the first time, it won't be the last. 
  • Sessions can last up to 3 hours depending on how baby is feeling. Please feel free to bring snacks especially for siblings
  • There is something about the photographic process that makes newborns extra hungry so please bring extra formula or be prepared to nurse more than normal
  • Newborn sessions are a lot more of feeding, snuggling and soothing than they are photographing, so expect some down time
  • Nursing? Awesome. Please don't feel the need to be modest for my sake. My moms often are feeding while I am changing sets and while we chat. Nervous about it? I can step out of the room

What should we wear?

No clothes are needed - for the baby - unless you have something you would like baby photographed in. A plain onesie in white, pink, blue, green, purple etc always looks great. You can bring up to 2 outfits, but babies hate to be changed and look best naked. I have wraps, outfits, head bands and hats you are more than welcome to use.

Mom and dad should dress natural. Bring two outfits as one may get pooped on. For siblings dress them in natural colors as well.  Jeans, white shirts., etc. No logos or character shirts. Words get distorted and make the session more difficult. Feel free to send me pictures of your outfits if you want to get my advise and so I can match my sets to you better.

Skin to skin. I fully believe all people look best in their birthday suits. So if mom, dad or mom and dad would like to do skin to skin in their session, just let me know. It doesn't hurt my feelings seeing someone without a shirt on and they make for amazing photos.

How do I schedule an appointment?

Babies come when they want. Letting me know the due date gives me an idea when we will be scheduling.

When you reach out to me to inquire about a session. Let me know your due date. I will put your due date in the calendar as our session date, that just lets me know between 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after we will have a baby. Once baby gets here, when you get bored in the hospital, just text or email me that they're here and we will schedule whats best for everyone. (I do like to be sent a photo of baby all new and delicious).

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