You may remember this couple from their maternity session earlier on the blog in Wickford Harbor in North Kingstown, and now it’s time to visit their adorable newborn session.  Baby Bodhi’s newborn session was delayed a little bit due to Covid in my house.  I take it seriously even still today – I don’t want to risk giving sweet little newborn babies any illness at all!!  (And with three kids at three schools there are always bugs of some kind floating around so I actually also still mask – I don’t know if I’ll even change that in the future.)    But even though we had to wait until he was a few weeks old for his session, it went so very well.  That is one of my favorite parts of my newborn photography.  I don’t need them to be tiny or under 10 days old.  I don’t need them to fit in a teeny basket or prop of some kind.  I don’t want to make them look like a standing potato on a blanket (iykyk).

Instead I want them fifteen days old or older.  Give me ALL the older babies!!  Parents are more relaxed.  Feeding is going better.  Babies are settling in more.   Especially with first time parents, that delay can make a world of difference – everyone is just so much more comfortable.  Bodhi and his mom and dad were no exception.  They made our newborn session delightfully easy.  We did the majority of their session in front of the large window overlooking their backyard and dock in North Kingstown, and some images in their master bedroom.  So often clients will say “well our house isn’t xyz.”  Listen, if you have a window and you have a bed or a couch, I am good to go and we will get beautiful images!

We did images with mom and with dad separately and then together.  I also got some adorable ones of just Bodhi himself.  Mom and dad chose to have a mix of classic images and beanbag so I chose a simple blue swaddle that went with the nautical theme of his nursery.  Some of my favorites are the two with mom from above – check them out below.   Something a little different and yet so familiar and sweet.