I met with Erika and Dan up at Heartwood Forest  in St Albans a few weeks ago to photograph Erika’s gorgeous baby bump!  She’s due with their first baby in just a couple more weeks and they wanted to capture this fleeting time before it passes all too quickly.

The original plan was to take the pictures up at Heartwood at the beginning of May to take full advantage of the bluebells, but  unfortunately that plan was foiled by the great British weather .  We still made it up to Heartwood but the bluebells were way past  their best, so after a short spell in the woods we spent a lovely sunny afternoon walking around the Magical Wood and chatting as we took the pictures.  Bliss!

Can’t wait to see Erika and Dan again very soon for their newborn family session in London – watch this space!

I have known Emma a long time – in fact I first met her the very same day I met my husband, so I remember it well!!  It was the day we started work at KPMG way back in 1996, and Emma was our trainer!  We’ve stayed in touch over the years, and I am absolutely thrilled that Emma and Tim are expecting their first baby in just a few weeks.

It was so lovely to take her maternity pictures over a good catch-up – I’m sure you’ll agree she is absolutely blooming!  Just a couple of weeks to go now, and I can’t wait to meet the new arrival.

Bump sessions are best done around 30-35 weeks, and newborns ideally in the first couple of weeks – so don’t leave it too late to book if you are expecting soon!

Here’s a few of my favourites from Emma’s London maternity session:

Last week I spent the morning with Zoe who is expecting her first baby in just a few weeks time.  She and her husband Paul, who unfortunately was unable to join us, received a bump-to-baby package as a gift, so I am looking forward to meeting the new arrival in a few weeks when Daddy will definitely be there too!!

Zoe has such a beautiful, neat baby bump – and a beautiful, neat home as well!  There was lots of lovely light inside despite it being quite a rainy, dull day.  And the house is in such a gorgeous setting right next to the canal in Hemel Hempstead that we decided to venture out into the rain for a few minutes too.

Here are a few of my favourites from our shoot, I can’t wait to meet baby very soon so watch this space!!

Blog posts are like buses after the school holidays, you wait for weeks for one and then…….

Meet my very best friend N.  We have known each other since we were 4 – I’m not going to tell you how long that is!!

I am so excited that she is expecting her first baby any day now.  Isn’t she blooming?!  I took these for her during the holidays, and I can’t wait to photograph her gorgeous new baby very soon!

Ooh this is the one I have been sooo excited about sharing!  When our good friends G and C asked me to photograph their newborn identical twin girls I couldn’t say yes fast enough!  They already have a son S who is 4 and a daughter J who just turned 3!  So they have their hands pretty full!

I did C’s maternity pictures back in January at 30 weeks, when she was already at term-size for one baby!  Here are a few of my favourites from that session:

At 36 weeks and 2 days identical twin girls C and I were born naturally, well done Mummy!  Last weekend we braved the traffic on a Saturday afternoon and drove down to London to meet them for the very first time.  And they were so teeny tiny!  I had never held a baby so small, they were like little dolls.

And at just 8 days old here they are!  Aren’t they beautiful?

Mummy told me they sleep all the time and have to be woken for feeds every three hours.  Um….not this day!!  No, they decided to say “Hello World, we’ve arrived!!!”  It took us quite some time to get them both fed and happy to settle and sleep.  I think even at 8 days old they were wondering, “Who’s the mad lady climbing up that ladder?”!!  But eventually we did, and then had to work against the clock as the light started to fade.  It was definitely the hardest session I’ve done, but gosh, how rewarding!  Loved every minute and here are a few more of my favourites.

Congratulations Mummy and Daddy on your gorgeous family!

I’ve had some real fun in the last couple of weeks!!

Last week I had the absolute pleasure of meeting 10 day old Baby A. Her Daddy is the brother of my ‘longest-standing’ (she doesn’t like me to say oldest!!!) friend who I’ve known for a terribly scary 33 years .

It was a lovely relaxed session, and these are some of my favourites……

And at the weekend we met up with some old friends from London. A is expecting her second baby in around 3 weeks, a little brother or sister for 3 year old O. Unfortunately Rob had to work, so alongside taking their photos I also had to cook a roast chicken lunch for us all!! Never let it be said that I’m not multi-talented!!!!!

We had a lot of fun and again, these are some of my favourites. Look out for the newborn pics in a couple of weeks!

And I can’t resist one last one of beautiful big sister Miss O. She is just the most photogenic little girl, just look at those eyes!!