Why should you hire a newborn photographer?
I'm a mum of three and a photographer, and shall I tell you a secret, I only have newborn photos of my eldest.
When I had Luca I wasn't a photographer, and we paid for a photographer to come and take photos of us with our new baby. I adore them.
We gave our family prints of them for Christmas and we have some on our wall. I absolutely cherish them.
When I had Noah, my second, I thought I'd do them myself.
I mean, I take other people's newborn photos so I could definitely do my own, right?
Well actually, wrong. I didn't.
Don't get me wrong, I took photos of him. But not like I take photos for other people. I have lots of photos on my phone of him, and even some on my “big camera” but they aren’t anywhere near the standard of the photos I take for other people. I definitely wouldn't have them up on my wall, and also, I’m not in any of them.
Ok I'm in some of them but mostly in my PJs looking extremely sleep deprived.
And I know why. It makes total sense that I couldn't do them myself.
Firstly, I massively underestimated how I’d be feeling in those first few postpartum weeks. I didn’t have the brain capacity to plan and organise a newborn shoot for my own baby whilst juggling parenting and recovering. Those first two weeks of my postpartum life were pretty hard, especially because my birth wasn't very straightforward.
Secondly, my baby only wanted me for the first few weeks of his life. I couldn’t put him down long enough to take those photos. He wanted to be held, a lot. So taking photos of him just wasn't feasible.
I really, really wish we'd organised a photographer to come and take those priceless photos for us. I thought I'd learnt after having Noah but then I did the same thing after I had Cora. I thought I'd save the money it would cost and do them myself because I now had 3 kids and Christmas was coming up.
But again, I didn't do them, and because I was extra busy with a toddler in tow, I barely have any photos of the first few months of Cora's life. I wish I'd just spent the money, because a few less Christmas presents under the tree would have been worth it for those precious memories of my baby girl.
You’d think I'd have known better right?
Don’t do a me.
Drop me a message and let's get you booked in for a newborn shoot before it's too late.