Cozy newborn photo session at home, all you need is baby - Philadelphia photographer
I always say, "there's never a bad time to photograph your family". Children are always changing, growing, doing something new... and never is that more true than when you have a newborn. The most common thing I hear from my newborn parents see their photos from our session, even just a few weeks later, is "wow, look how small she was!" or "look how much his face has changed already!"
The most common thing I hear when folks ask about doing a newborn session is "I'm worried our house is a mess, we're not ready for newborn photos". To which I say, who cares! First, for my lifestyle newborn sessions, all we really need is one cozy room for everyone to snuggle up in together, and the baby of course! That's it. And second, the last thing I want you to do right after welcoming a new little one to the family is to worry about cleaning. If there are things lying around that you'd rather not have in photos, shove them under the bed, in the closet, or in another room, and let me take care of the rest. You can even take a look through my newborn gallery and see if you notice anything other than sweet babies and the families who love them.
Because taking a moment to document your family is important. Because yes, you want to remember them when they were so tiny. And your days are going by in a sleep-deprived blur but you want to somehow savor all of those little moments and details. But also because your children will want to be able to look back, too. And they're not going to care how clean the room was, they're going to want to see what their parents looked like in the very beginning. Before they had been through the rigors of early parenthood and figured a few things out. Especially if they become parents themselves one day; I know that I found it so comforting to look at old pictures of my parents and recognize the same looks that I felt when my babies were born.
And finally, it's important because often, scheduling a newborn session with me is an excuse for my families to set aside some time to just be together. To sit on the bed, holding the little person they created together, look into each other's eyes, and let it all sink in.
And PS, maybe your kids will actually love seeing that the house was a mess, and that everything didn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Tell me what is totally amazing about this moment for your family, I'd love to help you document it