Lindsey’s Maternity Portraits

My dear friend Lindsey just had a baby the other day – her first child, a son named Jude!  He’s so precious and I’ll definitely be sharing many photos of him in the coming weeks, and months, and years, I’m sure :)  But before we get there, we have to go back a few weeks to when there were still leaves on the tress and pumpkins laying around – and little Jude was still a mysterious baby growing inside Lindsey’s belly!  I spent a morning with David & Lindsey capturing the last portraits of the two of them before their family officially became three!

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

This is one beautiful pregnant lady :)

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

I love how David always knows how to make Lindsey laugh!

Fall Maternity Portraits

I **LOVE** this one!!!!  That’s one happy Daddy!

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

Another favorite!

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

There’s nothing quite as amazing to me as a pregnant belly!  There was a tiny little human growing in there – that’s pretty incredible!

Fall Maternity Portraits

Fall Maternity Portraits

David & Lindsey – I love you guys!!!  Thanks for letting me share in this wonderful part of your life!  I’m very very excited to be baby Jude’s one and only Kiki! :)

To view more of my favorites from this session, please check out the album on Facebook!

Eileen’s Maternity Portraits – Melrose, MA

A few weeks ago, back when beautiful leaves were still on the trees and not decaying in my backyard, I met up with Eileen and Fabio at Mt. Hood Park for some maternity photos.  They’ve commissioned me to document the first year of their first baby’s life, starting with pregnancy!  Year-In-The-Life Portraits are so fun because I actually get to watch and document the baby grow and change over the course of time.  It’s quite an honor to be invited into such an intimate part of people’s lives!

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Melrose Maternity Session

Eileen & Fabio – it was so great to meet you and spend some time with you!  I’m really looking forward to getting to you and your new baby over the course of the next year.  Let me know when that little one arrives and is ready for some photos!

If you’d like to see more of my favorites from Eileen’s Maternity Session, please check out my Facebook Fan Page!

A Year in the Life – Gretchen’s Maternity Session

One of my favorite things in this business is when I have the opportunity to document not just the first day in the life of a new family, but also as it begins to grow!  Gretchen & Justin pretty much got pregnant the minute they got married ;) and now I get to photograph a Year-in-the-Life of their first child!!  I’m so excited to watch this little cutie grow up!

The first session in a Year-in-the-Life Package is usually a maternity session.  The maternity session is a chance to document the beauty and craziness that is pregnancy.  I think pregnant women are so lovely!  I hear so many women talk about how they feel fat and gross when they’re pregnant, but honestly, I think they are amazing and beautiful.  I mean, there’s a teeny tiny human being growing and living INSIDE of them!  That’s AMAZING!  The first time my sister was pregnant, we would just sit around staring at her belly exclaiming in wonder, “there’s a PERSON in there!!”  Come on, it’s a wondrous miracle!!!  As you can tell, I’m fascinated by the whole thing and I LOVE to take maternity photos, when moms will let me :)  I’m so glad Gretchen is such a good sport!

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Comparing “Buddha bellies”

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Gretchen, thank you so much for stepping out in front of the camera, and Justin thanks for playing along!   I love you guys!