Newborn · 5–14 days
You get about two weeks of this.
The curled legs, the hands that still want to be near the face, the weight of a baby who has not yet unfolded. It goes at around a fortnight and it does not come back. That is the whole reason this session exists, and the reason we hold your due-date month rather than a date.
Photographed at 5–14 days
A spotter on every posed shot
Why now
Nobody regrets it. Plenty regret waiting.
You are tired, your house is a state, and booking a photographer is somewhere below sleep on the list. We know. Binh and Lin are parents of three, so this is not a theory to us.
Here is the honest reason to do it anyway. In the first fortnight your baby still holds the shape they held inside you. Knees drawn up, fists near the chin, that comma of a spine. By week three they have begun to stretch out and stay awake, and the newborn photographs everyone pictures in their head are no longer available. The phone in your pocket already has four hundred pictures of these two weeks. In a year you will not be able to find them, and none of them are on a wall.
One session. One afternoon you barely remember. Then something framed in the hallway that your child grows up walking past.
Safety
The question you are actually asking.
You have seen the pictures where a baby appears to be balancing on their own hands, and you have wondered whether that is really alright. Fair question. Here is exactly how we work.
The room is warm
The studio is heated well above room temperature for the whole session, because a warm baby sleeps and a cold baby does not. Bring a singlet and expect to be too hot yourself. That part is deliberate.
Hands on, every time
There is a spotter with hands on your baby for every posed shot. Not nearby. Touching. If a pose cannot be made safely with someone holding on, we do not make that pose.
Composites, not stunts
The famous poses that look unsupported are built from two frames, in each of which an adult is holding the baby, joined afterwards in editing. No newborn is ever balanced or left unheld. Ever.
Hygiene
Wraps, blankets and props are laundered between sessions and hands are washed and sanitised throughout. If anyone in our house or yours is unwell, we move the date and there is no penalty for doing so.
The baby sets the pace
If your baby does not want a pose, that pose does not happen. We move on. There is no shot on a list that matters more than a settled baby.
You are in the room
You stay with us the entire time. Feed whenever you need to, take the baby back whenever you want to, and ask us to stop whenever you like.
Straight answers
The four things people worry about.
Then we wait, and it is fine. Newborn sessions often run two to three hours, and that length exists for exactly this reason. Feeds, nappy changes, a long cuddle on your shoulder and a second attempt at settling are all inside the plan, not interruptions to it.
We have never had a session end without photographs because a baby was unsettled. Some sessions are ninety unbroken minutes of sleep and some are three hours of stopping and starting. The pictures come out the same.
No, and please do not let that stop you booking. We photograph older babies beautifully and we do it often. The pictures are simply different: more awake, more eye contact, more expression, fewer of the tightly curled sleeping poses. Many parents prefer them.
At three to six weeks we lean into wrapped work and parent-and-baby portraits. From around three or four months, when they hold their own head up and start to smile properly, there is a different session again — that one lives on our baby and children page.
Not at all. Tell us at the planning call and we will run the whole session plain: your baby wrapped simply in one or two neutral tones, on clean backgrounds, no baskets, no hats, no seasonal props, no headbands. Just the face, the hands and the scale of them against your arms.
Honestly, it is the work that ages best. Props date a photograph faster than anything else.
Yes, and we would encourage it. Partners and siblings are welcome. We photograph the family and the older siblings first, while everyone is fresh and the toddler is still interested, then let them go home or play while we carry on with the baby.
Bring whatever they need. Nobody here is surprised by a three-year-old.
Booking timeline
You cannot book a date. So we book a month.
Babies ignore calendars, so newborn bookings work differently from every other session we run. This is the whole sequence.
01
Enquire at 28–34 weeks
Send us your due date and roughly what you have in mind. We reply within one business day with what is still open around that month.
02
Reserve your due-date month
We hold capacity across the whole month rather than a fixed day, which is the only honest way to do it. We take a limited number of newborns per month so that nobody is rushed.
03
Confirm when the baby arrives
Message us from the hospital, or whenever you surface. We set the actual date then, usually within a day or two of hearing from you.
04
Photograph at 5–14 days
Mid-morning, in the heated studio, for two to three unhurried hours. Then your reveal follows two to three weeks later.
Left it late, or reading this with a newborn already asleep on you? Ring 0450 255 413 rather than emailing. We keep a little room for exactly this.
What is included
Everything in the session fee.
- A planning call before the day — style, wrap colours, who is coming, what you want on the wall
- Two to three unhurried hours in the heated studio, with feeds and settling built into the time
- A spotter on every posed shot, and all wraps, layers and backgrounds provided
- Parent and baby portraits, and sibling portraits, photographed as part of the session
- Full direction throughout — you will not be asked to pose yourself or to know what to do with your hands
- Professional retouching of every image you choose, by hand
- A reveal two to three weeks later where you see your images at real size, on a real wall, before you decide anything
Investment
Told to you up front.
The session fee covers the photography and the design consultation. Artwork is chosen afterwards, at the reveal, once you have seen the images at size.
The newborn session
Two to three hours in the heated studio, planning call included, partners and siblings welcome.
Session fee$395
The Wall Collection
A framed statement piece for the main wall plus a matched pair for a second room. Matching digital files included.
Most chosenfrom $3,200
Heirloom album
Hand-bound, linen cover, twenty spreads. Designed by us and approved by you before it is printed.
Add onfrom $1,250
Most families invest between $1,800 and $4,500 all in. There is no minimum spend. What we will not do is hand you a folder of files and call it finished — see wall art for why.
Questions
Before you email us.
Plan for two to three hours. Some finish sooner. Do not book anything else that morning, and do not bring anyone who has to be somewhere.
A feed, a spare dummy if you use one, and a change of clothes for yourself, because you will be handed a baby at some point. Wraps, layers and backgrounds are all here. If there is a blanket or a knitted piece with meaning in your family, bring that too and we will use it.
Yes, and often. Tell us at enquiry so we can plan the session around it.
We shoot on location across Sydney — Northern Beaches, Inner West, Sutherland Shire, the Hills, Ryde, Hornsby, Eastwood and the North Shore. For newborns we usually recommend the studio, purely because we can control the temperature and the light, but at-home newborn sessions are possible. Ask.
Your reveal is two to three weeks after the session. You see everything projected at real size, and choose there. Full detail on the process page.
Also worth reading
Most families book more than one.
Maternity, 28–34 weeks
The natural pairing. Photographed while you are still carrying, then again a few weeks later with the baby in your arms.
Maternity sessions →
Baby & children
Sitting up at six months, walking at one, unrecognisable at three. The next one to put in the diary.
Children’s sessions →
All six sessions
Family, Mini Love and headshots as well — the full list, with what each one is actually for.
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Enquire
Send us your due date.
That is all we need to start. We reply within one business day with the months still open. Sessions book four to six weeks ahead and newborns are reserved by due-date month.
