This beautiful baby girl is baby Sydney.  I had the pleasure of meeting her and snuggling her when she was a teeny tiny ten days old.  I really didn’t want to give her back! 🙂 She was such a gorgeous baby, and has beautiful parents as well!  She let me do so many fun setups, and I very much enjoyed my time with her!  It’s always hard to pick favorites, but here are some of mine from Sydney’s Raleigh newborn session!

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This future little heartbreaker is baby Daniel!  I met him and his sweet family at just 9 days old.  His family is from Bermuda!!!  They traveled here to Raleigh to have baby Daniel in the States, and stayed just long enough for a newborn session with me, before heading back home to Bermuda.  It was such a blast meeting them.  And I feel so lucky that I got to know them and photograph this special time in their lives.  Baby Daniel is an absolutely stunning baby.  So perfect and sweet!

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I was excited to meet this beautiful family for Ellowyn’s newborn portraits.  Little Ellowyn has a big, loving family — even her grandpa and aunt tagged along for the fun.  We had such a great time. The weather was perfect, so we got to take some really gorgeous outdoor newborn shots!  They’re always my favorite! 🙂  Ellowyn’s Mommy and Aunt came with a lot of fun ideas for setups, so we had a fun time playing with her.  And thankfully she obliged.  She was one month old for her session, but was born really early so thankfully she was still nice and sleepy for her session.  Here are some of my favorites from my time with her!

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This sweet little girl is baby Katherine.  She came into my studio for her newborn session at 14 days old and I really enjoyed my time with her.  Her Mommy’s only request was to incorporate some grey into the session, so I did just that.  Baby Katherine is an absolute beauty and I feel so fortunate that I got the honor of photographing her.  I had a lot of favorites from her session… 🙂

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What an absolute pleasure little Ava Jai was!  I was delighted to see her sweet family again, after having done both maternity photos for them a few years ago, as well as a newborn session for Ava’s big brother.  Now they have this beautiful baby girl to round out their family.  And boy, is she heavenly!!! An absolute doll.  So perfect and beautiful.  She was so fun to pose and snuggle, and I’m of course so honored to capture more memories for this family.  Here are some of my favorites from Ava Jai’s gallery.  Believe it or not, these are narrowed down from a whole lot more photos I took that day!

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This gorgeous baby girl with the prettiest hair is little Ella.  I met her at 7 days old, and her family coincidentally lives right near me — we’re practically neighborns!  Which we didn’t know until they plugged it into the GPS the morning of our session, and it told them I was 2 minutes away. So that worked out nice!  Ella is the youngest of 4 children.  Two older sisters and one brother.   They are such a sweet group of kids, and I know she’s going to be well taken care of.  Here are some of my favorites from Ella’s session!

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My first time ever getting to photograph a baby named Eleanor! I just think her name is so sweet and beautiful.  I got to meet little Eleanor when she was just six days new. She has two very fun and adoring big brothers, as you’ll see.  They did so well with her and were such kind and well behaved boys!  I always love sibling photos – they’re some of my favorites.  And they’re included in your newborn session at no extra charge (I get asked that question a lot!).  So bring along the whole family. 🙂  Here is precious baby Eleanor.

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Meet sweet baby Liliana!!  Liliana’s aunt contacted me several months before Liliana was born, wanting to gift a newborn session to her sister-in-law as a baby shower gift.  What a great gift and surprise for Liliana’s parents.  I got to meet Liliana when she was 10 days old, and she was an absolute pleasure. She was so sweet and sleepy and we got SO many great photos. I absolutely adored her.  It was hard to narrow it down, but here are some of my favorites from Liliana’s first photo session!

p.s. I’ve fallen way behind on blogging sessions. Again. 🙂 It’s been one crazy fall just FULL of sessions over here. One day in my dreams I’ll be all caught up again.  🙂

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Didn’t I mention I’ve had a lot of baby girls in the studio lately?  Well, next up on the blog is another sweet little girl – Miss Molly!  She was nine days old for her session, and was just the cutest!  She had the squishiest cheeks, I could just nibble on them! 🙂  She was perfect and precious in every way. Such a sweet baby girl.  Here’s a look at a couple favorites from her session!