In Home Editorial Maternity
A Maternity Photoshoot Captured at Home
In home sessions will forever have a special spot in my heart. There are so many great reasons to host your photos within your own home — and doing so doesn’t mean you can’t have wiggle room for creativity. Two of my favorite reasons to have your photographs captured in your home goes as follows: 1) You are automatically at a different level of comfort because this is your space that you have curated + love 2) there’s an extra layer of sentimentality to anything created within these walls.
The maternity session below was captured in Kaitlyn’s home. I had a vision for this warm buttery feel to our session; and the light pouring in from the front door made the perfect spot. This home is already so special because it was her husband’s childhood home and now they’ll be bringing their sweet boy here.
From Kaitlyn: “I remember the first time I stepped foot in this house. I was visiting Indiana with my then boyfriend, now husband, to meet his family for Thanksgiving. Little did I know that seven years later I’d be the homeowner with our first child on the way.
As an adult, I’ve lived in a number of places— multiple apartments, townhomes, old houses in up-and-coming downtown neighborhoods— but I’ve never truly felt at home. Sure, it’s where I kept all of my belongings, hosted friends, and made memories, but each rental felt like a stepping stone to something bigger. What IS home? My childhood house would fill with sunlight in the early morning, a characteristic of that house that I’ve always cherished and chased. Standing in the foyer of my current home— 7 months pregnant— I bask in morning sunlight, setting my entire entryway ablaze. I know this feeling, I’ve longed for this feeling, but somehow it still doesn’t feel right.
People say that you never know a more powerful love until you meet your first baby. Such an odd concept, to have experienced all different types of love throughout my life, and yet I’m preparing for one that I haven’t known. How could it possibly be any different? This was just something that people said, right? A cliche? Will I be fortunate enough to experience this love that everyone speaks so much about?
Enter baby Otis.
The light of that love had filled all of my empty spaces, flooded the cracks with a brightness I didn’t know I was missing. I often glance over at my sun-filled foyer, now that Otis is here, reminiscing on how innocent I was only several months prior. To think that I truly had no idea what I was about to get myself into. Motherhood has improved my very being. I feel at peace, as if I see things clearly and with more purpose. My home now feels truly lived in, experienced, and enjoyed. Through the late night visits to the kitchen to fill his bottle, or the countless hours spent on the couch just cuddling. This is what I was missing, this is what I had been longing for.
Being a new mother is consuming. It’s tiring and confusing. But man, it’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever done. Now even on a cloudy day my home is filled with such incredible sunlight, and it all radiates from my baby boy.”