The days pass at a snails pace as your belly ripens with anticipation of a little one. You’ve taken the classes, your birth plan all written and printed out. The nursery is set up, the car seat in the car, ready to go at a moments notice. And still you wait.

You wait and try to picture life with a newborn. Will you know how to care for them? Will you be able to breast feed? What will they look like? Will they be an ‘easy’ baby? All the questions swirling around your mind as your heart grows with anticipation and excitement.

The early days, those weeks you’re dropped in the deep end of the ocean filled with sharks and told to swim. The waves, much like labor pains, wash over you relentlessly. Every time you come back to the surface and take another breath before you feel swallowed whole again. These early days are often veiled in a fog. A fog of emotions and utter exhaustion.

It is also a time your heart explodes in way you never knew before. You find a strength and endurance you didn’t think was possible. You swim on even when you think you have nothing left in you. Your strength grows with each passing day. Until one day the waves don’t swallow you as much as before. You can tread water with ease.  And the fog begins to lift.

But do you remember what those fog filled days looked like?  Felt like?  Did you take pictures to remember how tiny their feet were?  Do you have a photo of what that gorgeous wrinkly little face looked like even just two weeks ago?

Babies change faster then your Facebook feed.  And in the exhaustion of the first few weeks you’re lucky to remember to eat or shower or even brush your teeth.  Don’t let those days go by without photographing them.  I created a FREE printable to help you capture those early days because I want you to always remember how amazing and strong you are.  I want you to always remember the beginning of your journey into motherhood.

1. DETAILS;

   The obvious go to’s of face, hands, feet, belly but also step back and photograph them in their surroundings showing just how tiny they are.  How small they look in your arms or curled up on Dad’s chest.

2. THEIR FACE;

   My first born was an old man as a newborn, all wrinkly and scrawny, just 3 months later she looked nothing like her newborn photo.  Extra credit to take a baby portrait every month to watch them change right before your eyes.

3. HANGING OUT;

   Remember all that baby gear you got?  I love the photos of our first in her bouncer on the kitchen counter while we made dinner (or take out!) She loved the boucer so much and it made our lives so much easier to include her.

4. RELATIONSHIPS;

   I know you may feel like there’s no way you want a photo post baby, but trust me when I say 10 years from now you won’t care that you still had a belly or 40+lbs to looks.  You’ll only care that you have a photo of you and your baby when you were still in a milky post birth haze.

5. SLEEPING;

   Newborns do a lot of it! Capture them sleeping on you, on Dad, in their crib, bassinet, on your bed. Photograph that squishy face smashed against your chest.  That squishiness disappears all to quick.

6. CUDDLING IN BED;

   The place you nest into for days after baby is born.  A milky haze of bliss and the best place to take those connecting and bonding photos.  This is the perfect place to capture baby breast feeding or bottle feeding.

7. BABY WEARING;

   The early weeks of life were so much better when I could wear both of my kids.  They were happy and I could still feel productive.  Sadly I don’t have any photos of my first in her sling.  My second I went out of my way to take these photos!

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