Only one week after Brandi’s maternity portrait session, baby Abigail made her way into the world!  It was great to see Brandi and Sam again and to meet their little baby!

It always happens that newborns never want to sleep during their portrait shoot, so we had plenty of time to capture Brandi and Abigail together as we tried to get Abigail to sleep!  No new mom has any right looking this fantastic!

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Babies are funny.  :)

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We wore her down…

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So we could get some classic naked baby shots.

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Love the hand on the belly!  And how cute is that that she still had her umbilical cord?  So new!!

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This shot makes me want to take a nap.

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Gotta love baby feet!

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Once we had lots of Abigail shots in the bag, we tried for a more “risky” pose.  “Risky” in newborn photography is defined as any pose that might wake up the baby!  Sure enough she woke up as we arranged her legs (gotta be a lady when you’re sans diaper), but we got some cute ones of Sam and Abigail looking at each other!

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Brandi and Sam, thanks for letting me invade your house with all of my equipment (with newborn shoots I pretty much move in for an hour or two with tons of blankets and props and backdrops and lighting stuff) and for being so patient as we got Abigail to sleep!  It was great to see you and I’m so glad that parenthood agrees with you so completely!

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Meeting newborns just might be my favorite part of being a photographer.  It is so much fun to go snuggle a new baby for a few hours, coo over their littleness…then go home for a full night’s sleep.  ;)

Time to show off this beautiful family!

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Norah has the cutest longest finger and toes I’ve ever seen on a baby!

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Rebecca looks so beautiful as a new mom!

Nothing sweeter than a baby and her dad!

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Remember this belly?  This is who was in there:

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Those people who say newborn smiles are just gas?  I don’t believe it.  I didn’t believe it when Will was a baby, and I don’t believe it now that I get to photograph newborns!  They definitely smile for their mommas.  He was smiling at Sheri like this right after I arrived.

Baby Chase is just as sweet as can be, and totally fits in with his wonderful family!

We used the power of heat to get him into a blissful slumber (a nice deep sleep…right up until he peed in his own ear, which I sadly didn’t capture):

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Chase was holding on to his daddy’s hand in this pose (with a powerful little grip), and it totally smooshed up my heart!

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