What age?

At Winni & Mini Photography by Tanha, we like to book in our new baby session when your baby is under fourteen days of age (health permitting).

When babies are very young they are much happier to be moved around once they’re in a deep sleep. Slightly older babies have a tendency to be more easily woken up when moved from setup to setup. The other reason, is because your new baby is so tiny and purely perfect from birth, and the goal is to photograph them very soon after you arrive home, so you will have lots of photographs to look back on for decades to come.

Milk Drunk

Newborn babies when fed, usually fall into a deep sleep because the actual task of sucking milk uses a lot of energy and jaw muscles. Once they finish their feeding, it’s usually pretty hard for them to get the energy to wake up. This creates a state in which they will snooze throughout all the poses we can do. As long as the photographer has posed them in a comfortable and safe position your baby should sleep through it all.

Settling

Some more ways to settle an awake baby, is to wrap their arms and legs so they have a more restricted limb movement. Just like in the womb only days earlier, they were squished into a tight tummy. In newborn photography, we definitely don’t wrap them as tight as they were, but just having that wrap around them makes a baby feel safe and comfortable and warm, especially since they’re still learning to regulate their own body temperature. I cold baby is never a happy baby, and also neither is a hot baby. Thats why is important to know how to create the perfect room condition for a newborn that is undressed and also wrapped.

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