I love photographing all family members during a newborn photography session. While the main focus is always on the newborn baby, I strongly believe that when a baby arrives, all family members have a new role to play and those new roles should be celebrated. A former mom of two becomes a new mom of three. Same goes for the dad. An older sister now has two new little siblings. And the former youngest sibling is now a big sibling for the first time.
Some of my favorite images to take at newborn sessions include:
The big siblings looking at their newborn baby in the crib
This is one of my favorite ways to photograph sibling pictures. This works especially well for older siblings who aren’t quite old enough to hold the baby.
Each parent with all their kids
It’s a huge deal to become a parent of multiple children. Capturing each parent with all their kids, whether it’s two kids or six kids, is a beautiful way to celebrate them and their children.
Siblings all on the main bed together
This is another great image that works particularly well for siblings that aren’t old enough to hold the baby.
Parents together with baby
Whole family images are so important but I always think it’s nice to get one or two images with the parents with just the new baby.
Each parent alone with the new baby
They probably have a ton of images with their oldest alone so this new baby should get that too!
If siblings are old enough, images holding the baby
If there is a bigger age gap and the parents are happy for the siblings to hold the baby, then I love to photograph the newborn in the arms of the parents.
