Dainty Baby Girl | Airdrie Newborn Photographer | Lace and Locket Photo

This sweet girl is the baby sister of an adorable little guy I photographed a couple years ago. Mum had booked me for Holiday Family Portraits when she was in her third trimester and decided it was time to get this little miss booked in. She was a Christmas baby just like her brother.

Mama from this Airdrie newborn Photography session was wide open about the style and colours she wanted. This is always so fun because it gives me free reign to do what I want creatively and I love that. She did stipulate that she liked neutrals, which is great because I don’t really have a lot of bold, bright colours to begin with.

If you would like to discuss creating your own vision for your newborn portraits, you can reach out here.

Baby S | Airdrie Maternity & Newborn Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

This sweet babe came after mum did her mountain maternity session with me in Banff in February. It was beautiful and the weather was absolutely perfect.

Here are a few of her Banff Mountain Maternity Portrait Session, isn’t she absolutely gorgeous?

Anyways, back to her son’s newborn portraits, because he’s so cute.

I can’t tell you how much I love when folks bring cultural and/or sentimental pieces to photograph. This family is Sikh and brought some things to be photographed, as well as their wedding bands.

Of course when I photograph sentimental images, I do some simpler, less “themed” images as well.

If you would like to book a newborn portrait session like this one, you can reach out here :)

IVF Baby Boy | Airdrie Newborn Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

This sweet, sweet little dude came in late November. I always have a Black Friday sale and mama snagged one of the deals when babe was already a month old. I wasn’t worried about his newborn portraits because sometimes “elder newborns” are the best newborns.

He was such a good little one the entire session, not a single peep from him and he was down for every pose. He even laid in my moon pillow and held a tiny teddy bear and he’s so cute. His Airdrie newborn portraits are likely one of my favourite sessions I’ve done this season! Mama even let me do a couple Christmas themed photos!

If you’d like to schedule a newborn portrait session at my studio in Airdrie, you can reach me by emailing me here.

Little Sisters' Newborn Portraits | Airdrie Newborn Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

My, house newborn portrait sessions change when you’re not in the middle of a pandemic. When this sweet girl’s big sister came to the studio in 2021, things were a little different. That being said, I was so happy to have her parents back because they are just absolute gems of people.

When a big sibling comes for sibling portraits, it can be daunting. There is a window of time where they want to participate but are too young to actually HOLD baby, and then the window after that is that they want nothing to do with listening or sitting or cooperating in any capacity at all.

This sweet girl was all ready to be in photos with her baby sister and I was here for it. This has got to be the cutest sibling photo I have ever photographed in my studio. Usually I have to photoshop this one.

If you’d like to book your own airdrie newborn portraits at my studio, email me here to chat!

Babies with cool accessories | Airdrie Newborn Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

When clients book their sessions in advance, there’s no telling what adventures we will have in store for us. Luba had done her Banff Mountain Maternity Session with me back in early June2021.. You can see her incredible mountain maternity portraits here.

Well eventually this sweet babe made his grand arrival and Luba texted me to let me know. He was PERFECT! We booked her session for a few weeks out. Then she called me again to tell me she was upset that he had been put on oxygen, she had to call an ambulance one night, they spent a bit of time at SICK KIDS at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and she was exhausted to boot. On top of this whole ordeal. She was worried photos wouldn’t work out now that he had this little accessory and she was so upset. What a wild ride right off the bat for a first time mom!

I assured her that this wasn’t my first time working with a little one who had been put on oxygen and that we would figure it out. I kept the oxygen on him for most of the session, only removing it to snap a frame and then put it back on him. I even captured some images with the oxygen on. Mom was so upset about it, and I do not blame her at all, but I felt it was important to capture it nonetheless.

You see, when I had my first child, she had Hip Dysplasia and had to wear a Pavlik harness. I hated it. I felt traumatized by it, I felt like it was stealing moments from me and my first babe. I couldn’t hold her in a ‘normal’ way and I didn’t take very many photos of it because I didn’t think I’d ever want to remember it. Turns out I do want to remember it. That event was still a part of my first motherhood months and I look back on it now wishing I had more photos to think back, or show other new moms whose babies had to wear Pavlik harnesses that it’s okay, and they will get through it. So now, I tell clients that they don’t have to show anyone, they don’t have to look at those photos until they’re ready, but that one day they would want them and they should have them.

My first client that had a baby come to the studio with oxygen on felt the same way I had felt all those years ago, and the way Luba was feeling. I messaged her to ask if she ever cared about having those photos after I took them - her babe was actually about to turn one. She told me that she thought she’d never want them but she said she loved them now that he was off it, and she was happy I had captured them for her. Me too, friend. Me too.

In some of the images, you’ll see an Owlet Smart Sock on little Dude’s foot. We used this to monitor his oxygen levels in the moments where I removed the oxygen as it sends a notification to mom’s phone if his oxygen levels shifted at all. It worked out really well. What a sweet little one. I am writing this post months after his session and I am happy to share he is no longer on oxygen :)

Twin Girls | Airdrie Newborn Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

These sweet girls came to me all the way from Drumheller with their big sister and mom & dad! They were SOOOO good!

The one thing I get asked most when folks inquire with me about photographing their twins is if I charge extra since there are two babies.

The Answer to that is no. I do not charge extra for twins. It is double the work, double the laundry and double the hands - I bring in an assistant to help me when I have a set of twins, that I cover costs for. Some photographers charge extra for twins and that honestly makes sense and that works for them. I choose not to because I suppose there are just so many things parents have to get extra sets of when they’re having multiples, and they still want memories of their babies and they didn’t choose to have double, or maybe they did haha. That’s not my business. The moral of the story is no, I do not charge extra for twins.

When I do twins sessions I make sure to capture individual photos of each twin on their own and a handful of images of them together in different setups.

Baby in White | Calgary Newborn Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

This little darling was an absolute JOY. Her mama booked me last minute, she had already been born. Sometimes you just don’t know if you want to get newborn photos done until that sweet little human is born and you see them ever changing before your eyes and you know you need to document it ASAP!! That is okay.
I try to make room for last minute clients JUST in case that happens :)

Lady L | Spring Baby | Airdrie Newborn Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

This little darling was absolutely precious. Her mama got a maternity and newborn package and the day we had originally scheduled her Calgary maternity portraits, it ended up being -30 degrees so we had to reschedule the following weekend - when it was ONLY -10 HAHA. It actually wasn’t that bad.

Little Miss made her grand entrance and she was an absolute delight.

Baby V | Newborn Photographer Airdrie, Alberta | Lace & Locket Photo |

This sweet girl came to visit me in February and while the weather outside was nasty and cold, we wanted to will Spring to come using florals and just simple, beautiful colours. She was absolutely perfect, so good to me the entire time. I absolutely loved the bucket and florals sticking out, that’s probably my favourite.

Sessions always start with family portraits and this is for a few reasons. It’s warm in the studio, and so I like to get them done asap so parents can sit down and relax and not feel the warmth as much. Another reason is when families bring older siblings- generally their attention spans and desire to hang out with me in my warm studio is fairly short so I like to get their photo taken while everything is still new and fun and fresh, and then either a partner or grandparent takes them out, either back home or out to the park or for ice cream at one of the fun Airdrie parks or Airdrie shops open :)

After the family portion is finished I focus on babe. I try to get through as many “sets’ as quickly as possible, with as much variety as possible. Some babes are totally into it and some want to tell me what they think about me touching them haha! In The case of sweet baby V, she slept like a dream the entire time.

These are just a handful of the some of my, and mom & dad’s favourite images from V’s session. Such a sweet girl!

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