During my first maternity photo shoot, I was self conscious about how big I was since it was toward the end of pregnancy (we had to reschedule our original date due to the weather). When I got the photos back, though, I loved them and was so grateful to have them. We skipped newborn photos that time and took our own.
Next pregnancy we did the opposite: I took my own maternity photos and we got newborn & family photos professionally taken. This pregnancy, we’ve decided to go all in. We did a maternity mini shoot (Now, Tim’s new favorite thing is mini shoots if taking photos in public! haha) and are getting family photos taken after the baby is born, too–both with Cait from Cait & Will Photography.
We recently got our maternity photos back from Cait and I almost cried. I can blame it on the pregnancy hormones or the fact that these capture our little fam in the current stage we’re in perfectly …or both!
All in all, my advice to current and future pregnant mamas would be to embrace your beautiful body that’s doing an amazing and miraculous thing–growing a human. If in doubt, go for the maternity shoot AND the family shoot!
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