I can see him thinking “my boob is over there, but my milk is over here….hmmmm”.  He looks so unsure LOL!  We had to introduce a bottle fairly early on, right at 2 weeks old, to be sure he would take one before I returned to work at 3 weeks old.  This was the first one.  Thankfully he’s done well with the bottle and goes back and forth easily.  I was really worried because my body refused to respond with the pump with Teagan Jude and he was not a fan of bottles.  It worked ok because I didn’t return to working until he was 6 months old and on […]

My plan was to post photos of Jonah in chronological order but somehow I’ve gotten off track.  I’m going to back up a bit and share photos of his first real bath at one week old.  Technically, I guess his first bath was the day he was born since he was born in the water and then about an hour later he and I took an herbal bath together.  But this was the first time we scrubbed him down after his cord fell off.  My little water baby loved it.  So did the paparazzi, we had lots of helping hands!

Y’all.  It is SO hard to photograph your own newborn.  I’ll take photographing clients alllllll day long over photographing my own.  It is SO hard to do.  You’d think it would be easier because you can time it just right, have everything set up and not be crunched for time.  The problem?  He can smell me.  Or, smell my boobs really.  I am food.  And when I’m close by, he wants to eat.  Oy, it sure makes it difficult to photograph him.  My mom helped me with this shot and it’s the one and only one we got this day.  Home boy wanted nothing to do with photos and everything to […]