Have I ever told you how I became a newborn Photographer?
Well, I LOVE newborn babies. I mean when people say they love babies, I don't think they hold a candle to my love for babies.
It started when I was about 4 years old. I would play with dolls and go to my friends house and if they had a baby, I remember seeing how tiny their brothers and sisters baby diapers were and asking if I could keep one for when I had a baby. LOL....I was FOUR! I imagined being a mom. Holding my baby all the time. I also grew up right behind London Ontario children's hospital which used to be called "Victoria Hospital". Waaaaaaay back in the 6th grade and through until at least high school, at night I would just walk over, take the elevator up to the 4th floor and stair into the nursery. Half of you reading this probably won't even remember those days, but when babies were born, parents would rest in their rooms and stay for 5 days in the hospital (even if they didn't have a c-section) and the baby would be in a rollie bassinet in the nursery with all the other babies. All the babies were bundled in either a pink or blue blanket or had a pink or blue hat which is how I knew if they were boys or girls. It would be a game to me...."how many little babies are boys tonight". "ohhhhh that's a new baby...there are more girls now..."and just watching the nurses in there bath them, feed them, give them to dads as they came in to visit. OH MY HEART. I just loved it all. Listening to their cries...ugh. The good ol' days.
Fast forward to end of high school when I still didn't know what I wanted to do with myself. I actually wanted to be a midwife but I really didn't want to go to school for 4 more years (and back when I graduated high School we had what they called OAC...or FIVE years of school lol). So there definitely went med school as well (OBGYN)...but what else could deliver babies?
PARAMEDICS! So I went to Conestoga collage for one whole year to learn to save lives ...and about 3 seconds taken to learn how to deliver babies.
I was a paramedic for over 20 years. I graduated in 1998, and in the next 4 weeks due to mandates, I will no longer be a paramedic. BUT...I never did get to deliver a baby. I came close lots of times but never did. Got there when the baby was already delivered, or got momma in time to the hospital then watched the staff deliver (with moms permission of course)...heck I even did birth photography for many clients before COVID was a thing and we were allowed in the delivery rooms. But never did I deliver.
I even had a client approve it with her midwife and allow me to deliver her baby ...but she went so fast I was 3 minutes later than the the baby wanted to wait :(. So either it's not in the cards for me...or God has something super special planned (like maybe when MY baby has a baby I'll get to deliver MY grand baby??!!!).
Sooooo what else could I do? I LOVED Anne Geddes and thought her baby pictures were the best things on planet earth. I bought a camera. Started a business page, and began photographing friends babies.
Oh to look back at the photography in 2008 makes me giggle. But hey, you have to start somewhere.
It's been 14 years of doing this now and I still can't get enough.
We even foster babies for an adoption agency so that I can spend even more time with these beautiful miracles and gift their forever families with professional newborn pictures.
Anywho - if you are still here after reading all that - virtual hug FOR YOU!!! Thanks for listening and letting me share <3
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