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May 1, 2020

+ Evan’s Newborn Photoshoot at Home in London

While pregnant with Evan, I knew I wanted to immortalise the early weeks with him as babies change so quickly! I was able to find a fantastic photographer called Kate Elliott via Instagram and her Arrow and Lo photography blog. What I loved most about her style was that they were unposed, didn’t require props and she was also happy to take some extra shots on request too (for example a line-up of bamboo breast pads drying on the radiator to truly depict the moment!). See below for some gorgeous shots taken by Kate when Evan was just two weeks old.

Want to do a newborn photography shoot at your own home? Here’s some tips based on what I did to prepare:

  • Using the Blow app, I booked an at-home hair appointment on the morning of the photo shoot to make sure my hair was a bit tidier than the mum-bun I’d been rocking since Evan was born. I also had a beautician visit a day or two before for a shellac pedicure, as I knew my nails would be forever immortalised in these images!
  • We picked out a couple of sleepsuits which looked particularly cute on Evan, and changed his outfit mid-shoot to make sure we had a little memory of that outfit alongside his usual body vest get-up.
  • I also asked for specific photos, although I’m sure Kate would have gone ahead and taken them without me asking. Specifically, I wanted a photo of his little feet as it’s the epitome of newborn photography and they are too scrumptious not to capture on camera 🙂

We opted for Kate’s Digital and Enlargement Print Package, which included six images all printed on to luxuriously heavy fine-art paper and framed by a trusted company Kate works with. Being the newborn parents we are, we’ve not had any time to hang them up though!

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Today marks my last full day of maternity leave! I Today marks my last full day of maternity leave! It's mostly been a balancing act of nursing my son (who refused bottles), writing my dissertation & feeling conflicted between trying to 'teach' Ev to #selfsettle while adopting #responsiveparenting and #positiveparenting!

My #maternityleave in summary:

- At #8monthspregnant I contended with an abandoned #houserenovation due to our builders going bankrupt! 
- I recorded an @lse.pbs assessment hours before my waters broke
- Ev was born on the day the #covid_19 genome was sequenced
- We went into 🔒down when he was #10weeksold
- My agoraphobic mum needed help throughout it with groceries/bins taking out, so I did my absolute best to keep her safe while stuck in London
- I wrote a 3K essay + a 10K thesis with NO INTERNET for several weeks (yep, a car smashed into the street's broadband box!)
- I abandoned an @glideapps app I spent 6 weeks building for my #behaviouralscience experiment due to incompatibility w/ #prolificacademic
- I sorted the house purchase of a retirement flat for my mum

Hmm... I think that was it! Being a #firsttimemum in a pandemic has been hard but I cannot WAIT to crack on with 2021. I'm so grateful to have had this year with Ev despite all the challenges and to have a job to go back to 🙌

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Each year on NYE Ned and I ask each other question Each year on NYE Ned and I ask each other questions like "when did you laugh the hardest this year" or "biggest lesson you learned this year".

This year we struggled to find answers because we genuinely have less memories to choose from as we've barely seen anyone else 😐

While I can flippantly say f*ck you 2020, I did learn a valuable lesson. I truly witnessed/appreciated for the first time the inequalities within and between nations, & the fallout from exploiting nature, animals and other humans. (The BLM movement, reading books like @drjasonhickel's #thedivide and researching for my dissertation on pro-environmental behaviour change have massively evolved my worldview this year).

I'm hopeful for a 2021 where I live closer to my values--using my various privileges to do better, create more, consume less, think less about myself and more about others

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