Welcome baby Jack!

John and Rebecca, Jack's new parents, contacted me a week or so ago to say they were expecting any day and wanted to arrange a newborn shoot. Rebecca knew she wanted birth announcements. I told her about the "Celebrate" Package (it includes 24 birth announcements). When baby Jack was just a couple days old I received an email telling me that Jack had arrived. Rebecca explained that she wasn't sure what time of day would be best for Jack. It's so hard when you're getting to know your baby and everyone expects you to already know them in and out.
We had the shoot this morning. Rebecca has learned over the last 6 days that Jack falls asleep as soon as he eats.



Not today. Rebecca felt bad but I insisted that all newborn shoots are like this. They take a while because baby needs eating, changing, snuggling breaks and we can wait as long as it takes.
Jack was wide awake for 99% of the shoot. It made it a little tricky because he, naturally, has opinions about where he wants to be (he prefers to lie on someone's chest, understandably) and we wanted to do crazy things like lay him on the fuzzy rug or on his adorable and soft changing pad. But it was worth working with his awake self because we got these very cool wide-eyed newborn portraits.


Rebecca has had both grandmothers at her house to help with the adjustment to the mommy role. Both grandmothers were so helpful and sweet but Rebecca is a natural at this mom thing. In all of the pictures in this blog post Rebecca is holding Jack underneath that fuzzy blanket.

Congratulations John and Rebecca. Thank you for having me over to do Jack's newborn shoot. Those wide-open eyes and blond colored hair... wow!