Newborn Kayen - Scottsdale, AZ Newborn Photographer

Newborn Noah - Phoenix, AZ Newborn Photographer

Newborn Abigail - Mesa, AZ Newborn Photographer

Newborn Colton - Chandler Newborn Photographer

Photographing this newborn was certainly a treat! This 4 day old newborn belongs to a wonderful friend of mine. His two older brothers are super excited to have him join the gang, you may remember them from this previous session. Their house if full of all kinds of boy toys ready for him to play with. So, when I showed up for our session the boys had left their play mat along with cars, trains and planes where out. How much "boy" can you get?!

He gave me lots of sweet baby smiles!

Newborn Jameson - Mesa, AZ Newborn Photographer

I'm not going to lie, I didn't want to leave this session. Jameson was a perfect newborn. No peeing or pooing occurred during our session and he was such an awesome sleeper. Ah, just perfect and snugly! Here are some of his newborn pictures we captured...

Before and After

I decided to show a before and after picture. The before picture has been edited for the background, tweaked exposure(it was a dark cloudy day), and white balance. The next step is to clean up the skins. If you are a parent you know how babies scratch their faces all the time, skins is blotchy, and how they start to get baby acne, but you don't need to worry about how the pictures are going to turn out. :)

Elin's Newborn Pictures - Casa Grande Photographer

I hope you guys have enjoyed the picture of Elin's birth. I'm so jealous, her pictures are way better than any picture of my kids' births! Actually, the pictures of my third birth are the worst! They are all blurry, but blurry or not I will keep them because those are the only pictures we have that document her birth.

I went to Elin's home the day after she got released and technically she was 2 and a half days old! Babies this little are so easy to pose. They are so sleepy they don't care what you do to them. Here are some of pictures from her session...

Rylee - Mesa Newborn Photographer

I got to meet this little lady earlier this week. Sadly her mom had tried getting another photographer to do her newborn pictures, but that photographer kept rescheduling their appointment. That made me so sad! Newborns change daily, everyday counts. The majority of newborn pictures on my site are before the baby is even a week old. I was up for the challenge of photographing a 3 week old. I got her in as soon as I could.

Rylee put up a good fight.

She really didn't want to sleep.

Every newborn session is different and come with their own challanges. I've had a 6 day old baby not want to sleep. I've had babies poop all over. Gotten tons of poop on my hand, or pee. I've even gotten it on my clothes. Hahaha

But Rylee's mommy was wonderful and patient. So, we waited her out. She slept for a good 30-45 minutes. Just enough to get several poses of her sleeping. But I love the awake pictures too. Here are just a few of my favorites...

Elin's Birth- AZ Birth Photographer

Sunday night I received a text from my friend Trisha.

"contractions have started"

We had a conversation a few days before about her going possibly over her due date and me leaving out of town. I was really hoping that wouldn't be the case. She'd asked me to be at her baby's birth a few month ago, and I'd really been looking forward to witnessing the birth. Truly an amazing experience. I've had 3 kids of my own and the experience of watching another human being come into this world never seizes to amaze me.

Tim called be about 3 a.m., I had asked them to call when Trisha was dilated to a 7, but things just went so fast. She went from 6cm to fully dilated in a matter of 20 minutes.

"If you want to be here for the birth you need to hurry," he said in a sleepy voice.

"I'm on my way," I said and hurried and slipped on some clothes. Luckily, I had decided to sleep with my contacts in earlier that night, just in case.

The hospital is about 15 minutes from where I live. I set my camera settings as I was walking into the hospital. I got there literally a minute before the on-call doctor did. The doctor walked into the room and washed his hands.

"Push"

One push later baby Elin took her first breath. It was a bewildering moment. Thanks Tim and Trisha for letting me be part of this amazing occasion!

Welcome to the world baby Elin!






















For info on having your baby's birth photographed contact me at dcarverphoto@gmail.com