Those first forty days are traditionally protected, so mom and her newborn can acclimate to their new reality. This is a time to be insular and focus on your baby. In our culture, 40 days of relative tranquility can be challenging – or even impossible – to achieve. Not just because we’re so busy with […]
Happy Father’s Day! Through my photography, I get to meet many many fathers. Some are well versed in local kid events (playgroup at the oval, story hour at the library, the best playgrounds around, etc). A few are entrepreneurs. Others sit on non profit boards. Some play a musical instrument. Several raise chickens. Most live […]
After documenting my sister’s pregnant belly over Christmas in the Adirondacks and the first few days of parenthood in the hospital, I was able to act as postpartum doula – everyone should have one of these! – and took time to grab my camera as often as possible to provide lifestyle newborn photography, documenting Wally’s […]
I’ve mentioned a few times that the birth-year is so fleeting. When you’re living it, pregnancy seems to last about five years, birth lasts about a month, and the newborn phase lasts about three years … but suddenly you realize you’re baby is 6 months, a year, 18months old … and it’s hard to remember […]
With each pregnancy, you get a better idea of what birth is like. For me, it was learning that I have a week of “is this it?” before labor actually kicks in. For Liz, her second pregnancy, like her first, ended weeks before the date on the calendar predicted it would. Baby Noah’s family was […]