newborn – Mind of a Mommy

I contemplated for awhile towards the end of my pregnancy as to whether I would pay a professional to do a newborn photo shoot or not. I ended up deciding against it just due to the cost associated with it. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my photographer – she is amazing (Allison Tucker Photography)! One day, I just decided I was going to do it myself, and on a budget. I wanted to share my experience and tips with doing one yourself. At the end of the day, you just have to decide if it is worth the cost to you or not. I must say, I was pretty happy with my end result (I know they aren’t professional, but they are so special to me). I am glad I did them.

Stay tuned…at the end, I provide some links to some super cute newborn photo shoot costumes / outfits you should totally check out.

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Every woman who has given birth has their own, unique birth story. Here is mine.

During pregnancy, you have approximately 8-10 months to do a lot of thinking and do a lot of preparing. If you are like me, you also do a lot of reading and researching. You think through whether you will be having a boy or a girl, what their nursery will look like, what you’ll name them, how you will tell your friends and family, etc… You also think through how you want you labor and delivery to go – who will be in the room with you, do you want an epidural, do you want to go completely natural, what if you end up needing a C-section, do you want to use a mirror to see the birth, etc… For me, I was dead set that I was going to have a completely natural birth (as long as no complications presented itself). TRUST ME, never plan on being dead set on anything when it comes to your birth plan. Around 36 weeks, I ended up having to go to Labor and Delivery to monitor my baby when I was concerned of decreased movement. That morning, a woman in the room next to me was giving birth ‘naturally’. Let’s just say in that very moment, I decided I was going to have an epidural. You had to hear her screams of pain — man oh man!

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