Some families like to do this first session within days of their baby's arrival. I love when we can, because it's such a beautiful, tiny time to remember. But since I'm not a "make-your-baby-snooze-like-Anne-Geddes" kind of photographer, the age doesn't matter as much for me. Before the pandemic, I considered anything before 3 months old the perfect time for this first session, but I've extended this to 4 months now, to accommodate for reschedules and other challenges.

Some families decide to wait until their baby is 6, 8 or 10 weeks old for this first session, but as far as I'm concerned, as long as you do this first session before your baby turns 4 months old, you qualify for my package pricing. 

I'm also happy to create a package for you with more than three sessions in your baby's first year (I used to offer five sessions in the first year packages - I love when families want to do this!) so please do reach out if you'd like to add maternity or additional sessions into this package and we can talk about how we'd do it.

This one, the classic "sitter session" - the six month old photoshoot - is just gorgeous. Oh my GOODNESS the chub. The smiles. I just adore it. This is where we get the sweet soft, round body parts... 

I just think it's so important to document the rolls before your little one starts moving more and stretching out into a big tall one year old. You'll be so glad we did. They look so different at this session than they did at the first one! So if you opted for a newborn session (0-4 weeks old), I recommend doing this one at around 6 months old. If you opted for a 3 or 4 month old first session, I scoot this one out a bit, and we do it as a 7 or 8 month old session so we can really show growth in our photos.

It's a big milestone, that first birthday! I've been offering Messy Minishoots for years as my answer to the "Cake Smash" phenomenon - I love documenting babies being messy when they're turning one. Whether that's eating an avocado in their high chair or a cupcake on a blanket in the back yard, it needs to be documented. And those messy-faced pictures? They're such fantastic art for your kitchen long term! If you don't think your little person would enjoy a mess, that's fine too - let's show off some walking skills... with or without assistance. It's just fun to document that little person and who he or she is at the 12 month mark.

After your baby's first year photoshoot, it's time to design the album. This is the easiest step of all! If you're excited to help, you can go back and review all three sessions and choose the photos for the book, or you can just ask me to surprise you and choose the photos. Either way, it'll be gorgeous.

The books are beautifully linen-covered, with an imprinted title. We can fit up to 60 photos in the book, which means we can really tell the story of all of your photoshoots from the year. The pages lay flat, and the pages themselves are a nice, thick cardstock. We can title the book however you'd like. The title will be imprinted on up to three lines on the cover.

This rate includes the session fees for all three sessions, the download of all 40-65 final, frame-worthy edited images after each of the three sessions and the coffeetable album (normally $295), and opting for the package gives you 20% off. 

My Baby's First Year package is low stress! I'm happy to take payments throughout the year if that makes it easier. Just let me know you'd like to enroll and I'll make sure we get your three sessions done in your baby's first year.