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  • Newborn baby stretches and yawns in hospital
  • Newborn in hospital basinet. arm is extended over head in a stretch
  • mother nurses newborn at hospital
  • Color. Mother lies in a hospital bed holding newborn child and making eye contact with child. Soft, low light and lots of shadows in the frame.
  • big brother brings gift for newborn baby sibling
These special sessions occur at the location of your baby’s birth {home, birthing center, hospital} within the first 48 hours. This is session helps define that time and place that feels so utterly foggy, while also capturing the teeniest of details and hugeness of moments.
Mother nurses newborn in a hospital bed over looking sailboats in Lake Michigan
I will spend about an hour with you. I know sleep and bonding is paramount, so I assure you that I will work quietly and then skedaddle on out of there. Like everything else I do, I shoot with a documentary approach. I strongly believe these are the type of images that will deeply resonate with us both immediately and as we move out decades from this moment. You can read more about my why documentary here and here too.
Newborn feet in a hospital isolet
Some of the things I look for include (great)grandparent and big brother or sister introductions, first feedings, tiny fingers & toes, sparse eyelashes, congratulatory flowers, swaddled little one, iconic hospital bracelets, blankets, bassinets, and hats.
Great-grandmother gives granddaughter her newborn baby to hold in a hospital
Grandparents use an iPad to take pictures of newborn grandson at hospital
black and white Newborn at the hospital with ID tags attached to feet

 

mom is attached to IV tubes while holding newborn in a hospital

black and white fresh 48 hospital newborn baby

doctor checks spine of newborn baby

Mother nursing newborn in hospital

newborn lies on floor with belly button clamp still attached

mom picks up newborn in a hospital bed

I block off chunks of time ten days before and ten days after your due date to make sure I’m available during your baby’s first 48 hours here. Since Fresh 48 sessions require me to be on call, I accept a very limited number per month, but they’re my fav so please don’t hesitate to reach out!

 

Couple your Fresh 48 session with an at-home newborn documentary session!

 

xo, Jen

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At-Home Newborn Documentary