How We Plan Your Newborn Session

Your baby is beyond precious. You’ve spent at least the last 9 months thinking about who they will be. Planning out the smallest details from the outfit they come home from the hospital to the nursery they will be rocked to sleep each night in. You deserve to have newborn photos that are just as special and planned just for them!

When you book a session with By Design Photography, we start immediately planning every detail. From the colors of the nursery and your home so that the wall art will fit seamlessly into your design, to the special details of including family heirlooms in the session, I want to make sure that your session is designed specifically for your baby.

Little Miss Amiri’s momma requested red. I must admit, that is not a color I had used before. But with a session that is booked early, I have time to order everything that is needed to make your session just what you imagine!

Booking your session also allows time to plan out special setups. Kovie’s momma had a vision for a fun setup with her baby relaxing and living her best life with her robe and Starbucks. This isn’t a setup that I include in every session, but it is so fun to add in special requests.

When the baby arrives, we set your session date. I set up my monthly schedule to accommodate baby’s coming anytime. We all know that they have a mind of their own and come when it’s right for them, and I want to make sure we get them in within the first two weeks after they are born.

Family is always welcome to be a part of the session! Having those first photos with your baby while they are so tiny is such a special memory. They’ll never be that small again and I want to look at those photos and remember just how small they were in your arms and the sweet newborn smell when you rest your cheek next to theirs!

The family portion can include just siblings or the entire family. We can keep it simple or add a little elegance to it with the option for momma to use one of my maternity gowns. It’s extra special if we did a maternity session and you get to use one of the maternity session gowns for the newborn session too. It’s a beautiful comparison to see how just a few weeks changes your whole life!

Finally, it is time to focus just on baby. The rest of the session is designed to feature all those tiny details, from their tiny fingers, the way their back wrinkles when they are this small, curled little toes, and their sweet puckered lips. The way they fit in the baby bed that looks like it’s made for a baby doll, and the way they curl up just the way they were in your belly just days before is something I want you to be able to remember forever when you look through their baby albums years to come!