Baby W | Atlanta Newborn Photographer

8 days after photographing this sweet little one's entrance into the world, I had the joy of seeing him again to photograph him with his big brother and big sister.  If there's one thing I'm a pro at familiar with, it's trying to get 3 kids to cooperate for a picture :)  

 I love the one on the bottom left corner of this collage...it's not a shot I'd normally include in what I show to a client but it so captured the morning, and reminded me so much of my three kids when my youngest was a newborn and we were trying to get pictures done with all three :)

After getting shots of baby W with his family, Dad and big brother left to go to a hockey game and grandma came to play with big sister -- leaving him to eat and go to sleep and get pictures by himself.

 It never ceases to amaze me how much babies change in the first days of life!  

Birth of W | Atlanta Birth Photographer

Last Sunday I got the honor of photographing this sweet baby's entrance into the world.  I don't think this job will ever get old...

 I got a text from mom about 9:45 Saturday night that she thought she was starting to get some real contractions and since this was her third, I figured she knew what she was talking about :)  And sure enough, about 3 hours later, I got another text saying they were headed to the hospital.  I told her to let me know once they had checked in and, depending on how far she had dilated, I'd be ready to head to the hospital.  At 4:30 am, I got a text from her husband that she was 4 cm dilated so I hopped in the car, thrilled for no traffic heading to a hospital in midtown!

 Mom was so calm, cool and collected -- even asking her husband, between contractions, to get the cookies out of her bag that she had made and brought for the nurses!

 {my favorite shot from the birth}

This sweet munchkin was born at 9:52 am...

...perfect timing for big brother and big sister to come meet their new baby brother!  Congratulations...it was an honor photographing little W's arrival into the world!

Cole | Atlanta Newborn Photographer

 Cole is officially the youngest newborn I've ever taken pictures of...not counting, of course, the births I've photographed or my own children.  His mom and dad did not know his gender ahead of time, and his mom was so on the ball that she had me scheduled to photograph him the day after they got home from the hospital.  I was so excited thinking it would be so much easier to get him to sleep (and keep him that way) for pictures.  I didn't consider the possibility that he may be a boy and would have a healing circumcision, so being naked and on his belly was not too comfortable for him :(  Lesson learned!

But we still got some great shots that day of sweet baby Cole with his mom and dad and then I went back when he was 12 days old to finish up our session :)  

I love this shot of him mid-stretch...

and because he's officially my last session of 2011, I was thrilled to see his mom wanted some shots of him in this shirt...

Thanks, Meg and Skip, for inviting me to your home to capture your sweet little one!  I hope you enjoy your images, but most importantly, enjoy the fleeting time of this sweet newborn stage.  Congratulations!