Six month baby pictures: why you should add this session to your professional photo plans
Newborns sessions are my fav: the transformation in the room is palpable.
But six month sessions are a close second. Your baby is growing and changing so fast: here’s why I think you should consider adding a 6 month photo shoot to the newborn and first year milestones plans.
Check out more on at home newborn sessions here.
Reasons to book six month baby pictures….
Reason #1: Babyhood goes by fast
You’ll have
3 years with a toddler, 3 years with a little kid, 4 years with a kid, two years with a tween and 6 years with a teenager.
But you only get 12 months with an infant.
While it may seem gratuitous to schedule more than one family photo session in a single calendar year, get as much of this sweet, snuggly time captured professionally as you can! Having a few professional shoots before your baby turns one will reveal change and provide them with memories they can’t make for themselves. Pro tip #1: multiple sessions lend themselves to beautiful keepsake “Baby’s First Year” books! Pro tip #2 – progressive photos (i.e. baby swaddled on the rug at 2 weeks, baby sitting on the rug at 6 months and baby pulling up on the rug at a year) make amazing framed displays over a bed or across a wall.
Reason #2: Big personalities
When I was pregnant, a friend told me that we would know his disposition by six months and I simply couldn’t believe it. But looking back, this is exactly where I can pinpoint seeing my son’s personality emerge. He wasn’t the smiliest baby: he was more of an old soul, more serious and self aware, just as he is today. And its gorgeous to look back on his 6 month pictures, knowing him now and seeing him there.
Reason #3: Gummy grins, giggles and snuggles
Your baby might have a tooth or two but that adorable grin is still gummy! They’ll be laughing, reaching for toes and you’ll know exactly how to play. It’s also a great time to get all the thigh and wrist chub well documented before it burns off from the rigors of pulling up and crawling. Not all babies will sit unsupported at 6 months but it’s a great portrait pose… even if they still need a bit of an assist. Lastly, once babies gain mobility they will want to practice their newfound skills, which makes snuggly/still photos harder to come by.
Get your snuggly-small baby pictures in while you can!
Reason #4: You’ve grown too
Your baby may have doubled in size since your newborn shoot and a lot has changed for you too. I can’t tell you where you’ll be because a lot can happen in the beginning: jaundice, postpartum depression, sleep deprivation, big feelings and growth spurts in your other children, just to name a few. And all of these things affect how we feel during that first year.
Even so, you’ve got a different handle on things than you did during that newborn shoot, you’re going to feel a lot more relaxed. You know their favorite things to do and their least favorite things too.
There’s just so much more knowing between you and your baby and your photographer would love to show you what that looks like.
Clearly, I love photographing parents loving their babies just as much as I love photographing the babies themselves. Maybe more – because I know this is something you can’t capture for yourselves and its going to mean even more to your grown baby than it does to you in time…
Read more about how much your photos will mean to your kids someday here.
Six months is an adorable and playful infant age to capture, you’ll never regret having beautiful pictures made! Schedule them and get in the picture too – you’ll be surprised how beautiful everyday moments with your baby really are while also making memories to share later down the line.
In-home sessions distill the beauty of the love-soaked fog of raising a baby and make parenting look like art.
