Welcoming a new baby into the family is such an exciting time for the whole family and is filled with so many tender and loving feelings and emotions. It is so important to capture that fleeting newborn essence so that you can savor those memories for years to come!

“When your newborn baby has somehow, in the blink of an eye, grown up before your very eyes, and you look back at their first few photos as a tiny, sweet-smelling and sleepy babe, you are going to look back at those precious images, and remember how you felt at that time.” -Athena

How Do Your Photographs Make You Feel?

A new baby brings a sense of joy and awe to the whole family. Every single family member is enamored by their new baby and can stare at him or her for hours without ever getting bored. Everyone wants to take turn holding and kissing the baby. You can see and feel the love but the true gift comes in being able to capture those emotions so that you can arose those feelings of love and joy whenever you go back to view those photographs.

*The Key To Capturing Newborn Sessions: is trying not to aim for perfection and fake smiles, but rather, it should be to capture “candid moments” that freeze in-time those deep feelings of awe, joy, pride, hope, love, curiosity, excitement and pure bliss.

*My Goal As a Lifestyle Newborn Photographer: is to encourage families to get close, snuggle in together and truly just love on each other so I can capture natural moments of happiness, laughter, love & affection with your newborn baby and older children that make you feel something deep within your heart. I aim to capture these authentic and candid first photographs as a family, with each parent and the baby, with the older kids and their new sibling and the baby alone.

Scroll down to see a few favorites from a lifestyle family photo session captured outdoors in this family’s neighborhood community.