Many people who know my husband and I will know that our children were born premature. Our consultant made the decision when I was 34 weeks pregnant that it was time for our babies to be born.
My husband and I knew quite early on in the pregnancy that the chances of our twins being born early was high. This is because twin two’s growth had started slowing down, and eventually she stopped growing altogether.
When our twins were born six weeks early, they weighed 4lb3 and 2lb11. M, the smaller of two, was absolutely fine. Small, yes, incredibly small, but everything else was fine. R, however, weighing 4lb3, was put on a ventilator within half an hour of being born.
Thankfully, our twin girls are now six years old, and you’d never know from looking at them that they were premature.
However, one of the things that I felt like I’d missed out on when they were born was a newborn photography shoot. I’d always dreamt that when I had children of my own, I’d have one of these photo shoots. You know the black and white photos, the angelic pictures of a newborn baby wrapped in a soft blanket, or posed with their head resting in their arms!
However, my husband and I soon knew that this wasn’t go to be the case for us. Our girls spent 27 days in hospital, and when we were finally able to bring them home, and get used to being a family away from the doctors and nurses, we decided that we wanted a photo shoot.
We knew we wouldn’t get any of the photos we had originally imagined we would, but that didn’t matter to us. When our girls were in hospital we took so many photos to capture every single day!
We organised for a local photographer to come to our home for a few hours, and we got the most beautiful photos!
Some were taken indoors, whilst others outside, and I truly treasure these photos! Some are framed and hanging on our living room walls, others are in a photo album. They’re moments that you simply have to capture on camera!
Did you have a newborn photography shoot when your children were born? How did you find it?
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