Recently, we’ve had a slew of newborn inquiries and I didn’t realize how many clients were a little confused on the difference of a traditional newborn session and what we like to offer, lifestyle newborn.
Newborn babies literally give me all the super feels (and it isn’t just their adorable toes or cute button noses) and it is something about seeing these new parents or older siblings taking care of such a sweet gift. We used to offer traditional newborn like you see below, but with the endless props, wraps, washings and the time it would take to properly get these cuties set up was a lot of time that was a little much for our schedule.
Within these sessions, we offered a lifestyle newborn session which has became the biggest and newest hit that we fell in love with. Being a mom, the one thing I miss the most is holding my little baby in my arms and the looks he would give me and the simplicity and beauty of it all. I also love seeing Jason rub noses with our son as he admires him just makes my heart throb! That’s exactly what lifestyle newborn is ❤️ It’s capturing those super special moments in a candid setting and not the typical backdrop portrait style session. Don’t get me wrong, they are beautiful, just not our particular style.
We have found with traditional newborn, we need to do everything in our own home studio and though some clients are fine with that - we find many clients prefer to be in their own home with everything they need. If they wish to breastfeed in private or in their rocker, you can do that. If you want it photographed, even better! Parents don’t have the stress of getting bags packed or running low on little fruit snacks to keep their kiddos at bay incase the session runs into hours - which it typically does with the traditional newborn. We also found many clients get quite anxious when their babies won’t calm down for a session or fall asleep for those cutesy poses because they’d much rather be snuggled up with Mom or Dad and who can blame them? During those situations, we would allow Mom or Dad to comfort their baby and shoot a few images (we do shoot away so the baby doesn’t appear to be crying, you wouldn’t know the difference 😉) and our clients ABSOLUTELY LOVED those images and those were the images they wanted canvases and prints of.
So we decided after a lot of back and forth, lifestyle is just a better fit for not only us, but our clients and also provided a much better experience for them and their families! It’s a little less stressful, more intimate, time saving for many reasons and ultimately, comes at a lower cost which we know can be super important for parents on leave.
I hope this helps to better understand the difference between traditional and lifestyle and why we personally like to do it this way and offer it. That being said, we cannot wait to meet these new babies we will be photographing and the new Moms, Dads and older siblings!
Until next time ❤️