What is a Fresh 48? | Nashville Tennessee Newborn Photographer
So, what is a Fresh 48 anyway? It's a photo session to document your new family within baby's first 48 hours of life. I'm in love with these sweet Fresh 48 sessions because literally everything is so brand new! Your baby was just born a day or so ago, Mom is still recovering and learning her baby and Dad is just in love and fascinated with it all. You're both exhausted and wonderfully overwhelmed. These can be done with home births and of course hospital births. Serving the military here in Okinawa, hospital births are way more common.
I spend about an hour with you in your room photographing your new family. I take images of their little baby toes, baby hands, and their baby faces. I start with all their hospital gear first, their onesie, hat, and blanket. Then slowly start to unravel that and get their clamped umbilical cord and their identification bracelets. I also bring with me swaddles, headbands and hats because there's no denying dressing up baby is the cutest!
Newborns eat often! I take photos of mama breastfeeding her newborn, but I keep those private for the family unless they're happy to share. I don't recommend skipping these photos though as they are such an important and giving part of your motherhood beginnings. No session is complete without posed portraits of mom and baby, Dad and baby, siblings with baby, and the "all together now" photos!!
