I already gave away one sneak peek of this precious baby’s shoot but I wanted to do some more as well.  Doing a newborn session is (to me) one of the biggest perks of being a photographer.  We get to come into the homes of our clients right at one of the most special times of their lives.  We get to meet new babies often even before family and we get to hold these precious little tiny bundles of new life and photograph them at just a few days old. How can that not be THE coolest thing in the world??

Did you know that in terms of photography, the “newborn picture” period ends at right around two weeks?  Maybe three, but that is stretching it.  You never know what you are going to get when you go into a newborn session.  You could have a very fussy baby or a very relaxed baby. It could be a baby who doesn’t sleep a wink during the session or a baby who sleeps the entire time.  It’s a chance you take doing newborn photography which is why we want them to be SO young when we get them because, in general, they’re happy and sleeping the first 10 days (my absolute favorite is 5 days old).  Little Miss E is the perfect example of why we want this.  She slept almost the entire session.  She woke up twice and settled back into a nice deep sleep each time and let me position her however I wanted.  So besides being just SO deliciously adorable and beautiful that I wanted to take her home with me, she was just about the perfect baby in terms of what we hope for as photographers.

I loved pretty much every shot from this session so it was MORE than difficult to narrow it down for the sneak peek. But I managed.  Somehow. 🙂  Some of my favorites…

There is something about this next one that I just absolutely love. I cannot put my finger on it, but it just grabs my heart. Maybe it’s because my own daughter sleeps like this, I don’t know. Whatever it is, I’ll just sit back and enjoy it.