Amy Ro Photography is a newborn photographer located in Northern Rhode Island. Also serving areas such as Providence, East Greenwich, Westerly, Barrington, Jamestown and Newport. She also travels to areas in Massachusetts such as Wrentham, Attleboro, Franklin, Newton, Norfolk, Somerset and Milton. Contact me about scheduling your newborn photos!
I recently shared this couple’s maternity session here on the blog – now meet their beautiful newborn girl, Amira. At just 17 days old, she was pretty much perfect. Big beautiful dark eyes and these tiny delicate features. I love doing newborn sessions on or after day 15. At that point everyone has kind of settled into a routine and parents are usually a little more rested. Plus if moms are nursing or pumping, milk supply has usually been established. And since fed babies are happy babies that is super important! And Amira was super happy and cute.
Since I do photos in clients homes one of my favorite spots to use is the parents’ bedroom. And Amira’s parents room was no exception. They had a beautiful simple bed and walls that let the main characters (them!) shine. I have many prospective clients say “well I don’t have a magazine style bedroom or anything” and I always tell them if you have a bed, a wall, a window that’s really all I need. And I’ll let you in on a little secret – the mess all goes behind me and out of the frame. No matter whose house it is or what kind of people they are there is always chaos and mess! You’ve just had a newborn! So I just move it out of the way, set up where I am going to shoot, and continue on with the session.
We got the most beautiful photos of Amira and her parents during her session! She gave us some good quiet alert time and also sleepy time which we all love. 🙂
Amy Ro Photography is a maternity, newborn and family photographer located in Northern Rhode Island. Also serving areas such as Providence, East Greenwich, North Smithfield, Barrington, Bristol and Newport. She also travels to areas in Massachusetts such as Foxboro, Attleboro, Newton, Norfolk, Rehoboth and Milton. Please click the link below to contact me about scheduling your newborn session!
Amy Ro Photography is a maternity, newborn and family photographer located in Northern Rhode Island. Also serving areas such as Providence, East Greenwich, Lincoln, Barrington, Bristol and Newport. She also travels to areas in Massachusetts such as Foxboro, Plainville, Wrentham, Norfolk, Rehoboth and Milton. Please click the link below to contact me about scheduling your newborn session!
Too often clients looking for newborn sessions will be told by photographers that their baby needs to be under two weeks old. This session is going to show you just how unnecessary that actually is. For baby M we didn’t get to do her session until she was about six weeks of age. This was because mom and dad wanted to wait a little until she wasn’t quite so brand new. When they asked I said absolutely!! Never a problem 🙂 See, this is the advantage of storyteller / lifestyle sessions! It doesn’t matter how old the baby is – they’re still brand new to you and your family.
When I got to their house the first thing I did was see how ADORABLE she was!! It was hard to believe this was the same baby that had been in this belly just a few weeks prior. After that we took a look at the nursery – so pretty in shades of grey and terracotta (check out their adorable mobile!!). It went so beautifully with her skin tone and dark curls. M was awake for the beginning of her session – she didn’t want to miss a thing. And the eye contact I got during her awake time – oh my heart! I mean newborn adorableness AND eye contact?? Amazing.
We were still able to get such precious photos even though she wasn’t teeny tiny brand new. The best part of it was she was still new but not at the same time – she was calmer, she interacted more with her mom and dad, and everyone was sooo much more relaxed! She was still little, she was still new to this earth and she was perfect. Don’t let the older age worry you at ALL. And if you can’t find someone to take older newborns, come see me 😉
Give me all of the snuggly, loving parents. Give me the single parent, the mom and dad, the two moms, the two dads. Big families with tons of siblings, first babies to come home. Love is love is love a million times over and that is what I live to capture for all of my clients. This newborn session was absolutely the perfect example of that. When mom reached out and said she and her wife wanted a newborn session in their home I was so excited. Especially, and I will be honest here, because they said I could share the images afterward. So often my LGBTQ families won’t let me share images – which I totally understand, but makes me sad. These two moms were ADORABLE and so so freaking funny. I remember laughing so much during their session.
Baby Madison was chubby and smily and pretty much perfect. She was a little different in that she was awake for most of the session which was awesome. It’s always an added bonus to get eyes open and sleeping images during a newborn session. It’s not something I normally TRY to get (that old adage about never waking a sleeping baby ) unless baby needs to eat but it’s a nice surprise when it happens. We were able to get such cute interaction shots – check out the nose boop below! We also got some adorable images with the newly promoted big fur sibling as well which was so awesome. I welcome all fur siblings as long as they are well trained – big animals plus tiny babies don’t always work. But this one was ADORABLE.
Towards the end Madison did drift off a little bit so it really ended up being the best of both worlds. <3
Amy Ro Photography is a maternity, newborn and family photographer located in Northern Rhode Island. Also serving areas such as Providence, East Greenwich, Lincoln, Barrington, Bristol and Newport. She also travels to areas in Massachusetts such as Foxboro, Plainville, Wrentham, Norfolk, Rehoboth and Milton. Please click the link below to contact me about scheduling your newborn portrait session!
