I Love Newborns! | Baby Girl MacKenzey & Baby Boy Colbey

I cannot say it enough, I absolutely love working with newborns! The godmother, a past client of mines, had booked this session with me for the twins' first portraits! Only thing is, we had to wait until both babies were home from the hospital. They had both been born prematurely about 2 months early and unfortunately one of the babies (MacKenzey) had to stay in the hospital a little longer due to heart problems. Thankfully, she had finally got home healthy and we were able to schedule their session.

The first round we definitely had our hands full! :) Even with the help of the godmother, the mother, and myself, we also had a few two year olds also in the mix needing to be distracted and played with while we tried getting the twins asleep! My goal for each newborn session, especially at such a young age, is to get them asleep for their portraits. Once they're asleep,  posing newborns is usually much easier and is ideal since this is the essence of what a newborn mostly does. (And it's also super adorable too!)

I was with them for about 5 hrs, most of this time was spent feeding, changing, and calming the babies into getting them asleep. I absolutely loved doing this though because I got to help, and I love babies <3 Colbey had done great for his individual shots and I was even able to get him in one of my baskets for a beautiful belly pose. MacKenzey on the other hand, was not into taking pictures this time around, but thankfully we had gotten a few in the beginning of the session while Colbey was getting fed. This round, we had also gotten one beautiful shot of the babies together where I had gotten them on there bellies facing each other. I had still wanted to get a pose of them facing the camera showing their faces, and possibly more of MacKenzey. So, we had a scheduled a second session the week after to try and get a few more.

Round 2, it took about 5-6 hours as well. But at least this time we had gotten all the shots we wanted/needed. How funny though, that the moods had switched with the babies. This time, MacKenzey was all about the pictures, and Colbey was not so into it. Luckily, I always have tricks, and we managed to get more of MacKenzey individually and a few great shots of the twins together.

I kept telling the mom (Patricia) that when I have children my ideal pregnancy would be twins (boy and girl.) I'd love to be able to have both grow up together, protect each other, and be there for each other. I can't wait to watch these babies grow into beautiful children and one day adults!