​It’s been 9 months… (or if you’re like me your little bean decided to make an early arrival), the heart burn, peeing every 2 minutes, not being able to sleep more than 5 minutes without a dig to the ribs has now all ben worth it! You have imagined what they will look like and how it will feel to hold them in your arms and now they are here. What better reason to book a photography session than to document every precious moment of them before the weeks fly by. 

People never forget their wedding day, but the birth of a child is even more special - it can only happen once! It’s a time that deserves to be captured forever with beautiful pictures that you can look back at again and again. You wouldn’t want your wedding pictures taken on an iPhone or by an amateur photographer - so why do so many families miss this HUGE milestone in their lives?

​This is more than likely going to be your first outing as a family, the first time you’ve handed your baby over to a stranger, and the first time you’ve got to drink a hot drink whilst its actually still hot! This is an emotional time for you, take this chance to marvel over your precious baby and everything you have created. 

​They really do. Nearly all my clients comment on how fast their little bundle has changed in the short space of time in-between their session and coming to view their final images (don’t worry parents, we keep a box of tissues to hand). My job is to capture a moment in time stood still, they’re never going to be this small again! 

​Take this opportunity to sit back, enjoy the view, and watch us sooth your baby. We will document all of the little details, their tiny hands, little toes, button nose… those pouty lips, chubby cheeks and gorgeous skin wrinkles. 

Newborn photographers have years of experience to be able take the most gorgeous pictures of your precious baby - from posing and styling to being able to pose them safely. 
We know after the birth of a child you don’t feel you’re best, you’re tired, drained and emotions are often running wild. BUT it is so important to capture some images with you and your precious baby, trust us, were amazing at capturing the right angle and raw emotion. 

​Whether you choose to have framed wall art, a beautiful album or a deep framed canvas you are creating the history of your family that can be enjoyed for generations to come. There will sadly be a time in the future when we will all only exist in photographs, so this is a perfect opportunity to capture your family as art.

​We all know how amazing phone cameras days are now, but that’s not what you’re paying for. It’s the experience, training and safety aspects we have undergone. You need to know that your photographer has had the correct training and can handle your baby with confidence. We cannot underestimate the power of photographs to keep us feeling linked to others and belonging. They cement us into our network

​This is the perfect gift for your partner, family member or friend, we also offer baby shower links for multiple payments. Once you have your products you can also gift these images 

​Once this newborn phase has passed, you don’t get another opportunity to capture these memories. I, like many newborn photographers photograph babies up to 14 days old. We take bookings from your 20 week scan, and sometimes have last minute availability so it’s always worth asking to see if we have space. We take on a limited number of babies within a 4 week period to ensure we can capture your session within time frame. For more information on our newborn sessions please click here.

For this session we were asked to do some skin on skin images which I love doing; there is nothing more precious than holing your baby tightly and just taking that moment in! This moment is raw, pure, emotion and shows the bond between child and parent(s). After all they do say skin to skin contact has so many benefits. Studies show that skin to skin contact after birth and in the coming weeks help calm and soothe babies, stimulates digestion and an interest in feeding and simulates the release of hormones which helps with the bonding process. ​

As a newborn photographer in Leicester, my number one priority in a session is safety!  “Compositing” is a very popular technique used by responsible newborn photographers. A composite image involves taking two or more images, and using Photoshop to combine them into one. ​There are a number of reasons for me composting images and im going to list a few below:

1) Young Siblings 
We have a number of returning customers last year, bringing with them a toddler and newborn. With this brings a number of safety issues and ones we are very careful with, those beautiful images of toddler next to baby is actually two separate images. With Bumps Baby Beyond we capture your toddler happily gazing down at their teddy/toy in the basket next to them; once we have finished with sibling we capture your newborn safely snuggled in the prop and put the two images together. 

2) Certain Poses
Sleeping newborns, with such precious little faces, make amazing photographs.  Who doesn’t love a pair of chubby cheeks squished strategically between two tiny hands? All poses we carry out during your newborn session are 100% safe, your little one is so used to being curled up in your womb that they may have already been in these positions throughout your pregnancy. When re creating these images I want to insure no weight or pressure is put on your baby. This is why I have an assistant for EVERY session. She is fully trained in newborn safety and I believe this is crucial to running a safe session.  The pose below is called the 'Froggy', when done correctly, it really is an adorable image. The entire face is visible, cute little feet are doing out, 10 little fingers and 10 tiny toes. 

3) Digital Images 
Digital images are a brilliant way of adding variety into a gallery or creating stunning pieces of art without your studio bursting at the seems. With these images we capture your baby on a prop we have in the studio and then edit them into an image we already have. 

4) Props
If a prop is not stable for baby to be left alone in my assistant will always be sat at the side with either her hand just above baby or holding onto baby, here is a full edit of the pose, putting the images together, and then editing the final image

I love how each photographer has their own style of editing that makes us all so unique! Amanda Haddow Photography​, Newborn Photographer in Victoria, BC. images are crisp and beautiful, and I love her use of colour! 

As a newborn baby photographer in Leicester, I had the pleasure to photograph a returning clients niece. I had captured precious moments of her her cousins, their newborn sessions and then their cake smash sessions. I also had the pleasure of photographing Etta's brothers cake smash <3 I was truly honoured when her mummy asked me to document this huge milestone in their lives when they first found out they were expecting...so we've been waiting a whole 7 months to meet their new addition! 

​I always say it is best to secure your session after your 12/20 week scan, this way you are guaranteed to have your memories documented within the first 14 days of your babies life. 

Mum had chosen to have our full newborn session, which includes both family and sibling images, her brother was amazing for his photos and fantastic with his new sister. We always do what we call a composite images with young siblings, we ask parents to bring a few of their favourite toys so that we can hide them in the props which helps them to look in the right direction and then edit baby into the image after. 

​When we have siblings we move straight onto the family images due to keeping the timing short. After all, whether the siblings are toddlers or older they can get fed up with waiting. We always capture the whole family together and then some single images of baby with each parent. Here is just a hand full of family and sibling images from their session. 

After we have finished with her brother, her daddy took him to the park so we got straight on with baby Etta’s images. For this we kept mainly with dusky pinks and fairly simple and neutral colours that mum and dad had asked for. You’ve probably seen me write about sentimental items that can be incorporated into images which is exactly what we did for this session. These items included a few teddies’ that Etta had been brought including beautiful wooden letters spelling out her name. I loved doing these images, here’s just a few for you to see. 

​On top of this I always ensure I captured a few images at certain angles so that I can use those images in our digital backgrounds. This creates more images from the same photo but as you can see her are completely different than the rest.
 
This was again another honour to capture baby Etta and her lovely family. I do truly have the world’s most amazing job!! 

For more information about our newborn sessions please click here.

​Baby Augustus came to visit us back in August at just 13 days old. He came to the studio with his mummy and nanny. Augustus’s nanny came all the way from Lithuania to come meet her new arrival and of course she got the chance to share the memories during his newborn session. 

For Augustus’s session we had already previous got in touch with his mummy to discuss colour schemes and which props she liked best. Due to them living in a barn conversion and everything in their home, décor wise, they wanted splashes of colour. Mummy then hand-picked everything when she was in the studio; we also teamed this up with some neutrals. 

​We used our root bowl with our hessian and wool curls from Bumps Baby Beyond Props to reflect a rustic theme and also used this on our cream rug background. Little Augustus didn’t want to sleep for us, he was too busy spying on what we were doing! With this in mind, we wanted to use props which meant we didn’t have to disturb him too much and risk waking him again. 

​​Like with every newborn session I like to ensure I offer at least one colour set up, the main reason for this is to ensure that you get a variety to pick from rather than just all the same colours and contrasts. After all you will never get a chance to take these images again so having a different option is always good. 

​Once we had finished with all the props we moved onto the beanbag and captured little Augustus in the potato sake pose on a completely blue background and then moved onto our usual poses on the beanbag. 

One in particular we do is our ‘’tushy up’’ pose. With this pose being done on our cream bobble beanbag fabric it means we can put these images into a digital backdrop. This is where the image itself is already there (without baby) and we Photoshop baby into the image. Just like this stalk one you see here. ​This also helps to give a variety of images that are very different to ones we take in the studio, also for families to treasure forever. 

​To finish off we took a couple of images of Augustus and his mummy and also managed to get nan to have a quick photo with mum and Augustus too. Which will be very nice for his nanny to look back on in a few month’s time especially with the distance between them. It was such an honour to be a part of making those lasting memories.

​If you’d like to capture moments like this with your newborn please get in touch via our contact us page. 

Beautiful baby Scarlett came to see us a few weeks back at only 5 days old. Prior to the session we kept in contact with her mummy to ensure we knew when she had arrived and we could get her in for her session as soon as possible.
 
One of our top tips for preparing you for your newborn session is to keep your little one awake for at least 1 hour before the session and give them a feed just before you leave to ensure they are happy and settled and will sleep for us during the session. Ways to keep your baby awake are things that you do with them regularly like giving them a bath, putting them down on their play mat or on the bed just simply interacting with them. This helps to simulate their senses which at this young age really tires them out. 

Scarlett’s mummy and daddy did an amazing job at keeping her awake and she was so settled for her session, this meant we got lots of photos and different poses with her. 

​We started off on the beanbag and achieved many different poses with different backdrops. Scarlett’s mummy chose the colours for their session and went with textured and patterned backdrops. Including this beautiful white and lavender flower one from Love Rosalie prop shop. We also used various headbands (mum loved the headbands). Using different headbands can help change an image by not disturbing baby too much. 

​During the beanbag posing we used our popcorn white fabric to capture a pose called “Tushie Up” with this image we can photoshop it into our swing digital. You can see what we mean here. 

​Once we had achieved all our beanbag poses we went onto our props, mum wanted rustic type images so we stuck with fairly neutral colours and hessian but added a colour in to so that there is a variety of colours and images.
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​The same as the beanbag, we use images from the props and photoshop them in digital images which gives you an extra set up from an image already captured. Here are the other two digital images we captured. 

​We had such a lovely session with baby Scarlett and her family and it is a credit to her mummy and daddy for preparing Scarlett so well for her session. It really does help so much.

if you’d like to find out more information on our Newborn sessions please contact us via our contact page.