My Home Water Birth

Our Noah decided to arrive exactly 2 weeks early on October 28th; which I found a bit funny considering our son Carter had came 2 weeks late. This pregnancy had been so different and Noah was such a mover I just felt as if he couldn't wait to come out and see the world and boy was I right. 

Contractions had begun early in the morning around 1am as I kept waking up as I was contracting, but didn't think much about it considering I'd been having contractions and just figured they were more braxton hicks contractions, but by mid morning 10am or so I began to think they weren't just braxton hicks contractions and after lunch around 12pm I started to time distance between the contractions and soon realized they were getting closer together. 

By 8 that evening my contractions had reached the point where I was ready to get in the pool. Awe, the warm water felt so good, but then, oh my baby Noah was on his way! 

I did it! I caught Noah all by myself! I couldn't believe I actually did it! I caught him and brought him up to my chest! My sweet Noah born at 8:21pm.

It was a peaceful delivery for Noah and I.

Weighing 7lbs. 5oz. and Measuring 19"

My midwife Gail Uptain and her assistant Jackie Lopez were wonderful as they helped give me the home birth that I desired. 

And here is my amazing husband with our baby boy, Noah.

Meet Cormack, 6 days new!

Cormack was a delight to work with for his newborn portrait session. He was so curly and flexible allowing us to put him in several different poses.

How to Keep Baby Awake During a Feeding

Before coming to your newborn session you are asked to give baby a good, full feeding, but sometimes baby wants to sleep. This is the one time we want baby to stay awake and get that good full belly, so I've gathered a few tips on how to keep baby awake while breastfeeding or bottle feeding.

• Stop in the middle of the feeding and Burp Baby
• Try keeping baby in a more upright position
• Gently touching baby
• Dance your fingers on the crown of baby's head
• Undress baby
• Massage baby's palms in a circle with your thumbs
• Stop and and change baby's diaper during the feeding
• Feed baby in a bright environment
• Stroke baby's cheeks and lips
• Bicycle baby's arms and legs
• Blow gently into baby's face
• Listen to quick tempo music
• Talk to baby
• Walk fingers up and down baby's spine
• Rub ear or jawline
• Place a fan on mama and baby

These are just a few tips to help you keep baby awake whilst feeding. We want to work together to have the best newborn creative session possible. So you can go home after your session with images like these:

Newborn Girl Lennon Dawn, 9 days new!

Meet Lennon Dawn, 9 days new! It's not often that we get a newborn with red hair, so Lennon with her sweet strawberry red hair was a treat!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful little red headed girl with us Crystal and Toby!

Here are just a few of my favorites from Lennon's newborn creative portrait session.

Crew's Baby Plan Portrait Session

Crew is back for his baby plan session with his adorable grins and expressions! Oh, and look at the way he grabs those toes! Baby toes, so much fun!

Capture the entire story

REMEMBER THIS MOMENT.

CHERISH THIS STORY.

CELEBRATE THIS LIFE.

Capture the entire story with Maternity, Birth, and Newborn photography. Contact Jenny Lee's Photography today! www.jennyleesphotography.com

Newborn Photography: Safety First!

Newborns! They are little miracles, bundles of joy, delicate, and precious little beings. I feel so honored to be someone's newborn photographer, but along with that honor I realize the great responsibility that comes along with it. I am not only a newborn photographer, but I am a trained and educated newborn photographer with the knowledge and skills to properly and safely pose babies in the cutest poses imaginable.

So as mom and dad hand over their fresh, new baby to me I'm confident that I can and will treat their baby just as if that baby was my own. I will use my training, knowledge, and skills to keep baby soothed, comforted, and most importantly SAFE! This proper training is EXTREMELY important and I just want to create some awareness that NOT all photographers that are calling themselves "newborn photographers" have had this proper training. It scares me to think that they are trying poses that are not safe without the understanding and education of how those poses are done properly and safely.

I constantly get asked, "How did you get baby to do that?" Well, many of the poses that my assistant and I do together are what you call composite images. Composite images are where two images are taken and combined in photoshop to make one image. These images take extra editing work and it is important for one to know that baby is not doing these poses without assistance.

It's also important to understand that all babies are different, just as each adult or child is different and each deserves respect. Some like to be cuddled up and some like to be sprawled out. Some like their hands by their face, while others don't. As my assistant and I work together to pose baby we go with what may seem more natural to baby. We want to respect baby and how they are feeling. You may find us talking to baby and trying to get to know your little ones cues so that we can read the cries and little noises your little one makes. So if a particular pose we are going for doesn't work for baby, we change it to make it right for that baby.

In my studio safety is first!