It seems like yesterday we were announcing this sweet baby would be arriving in April. Not long after, they learned she was a girl. While winter wouldn’t quit, we photographed their maternity portraits and I waited for the call to be there for her birth…
Mia is a dream to photograph and i look forward to watching her grow!
We also got to play in the cherry blossoms!
@heartlovephoto omg I #heartloveyou!!!
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Met a women at the Miracle Milk Stroll Baltimore – she donated more than 3500 ounces! #miraclemilk #hero @BestforBabes
— Jillian Mills (@heartlovephoto) May 10, 2014
Excited to meet Baltimore Raven @JForsett tomorrow at the Miracle Milk Stroll! Join Me! #miraclemilk #bestforbabes pic.twitter.com/JP6TrdCKgh
— Jillian Mills (@heartlovephoto) May 9, 2014
Human milk is an immune-building, disease-busting fluid that contains hundreds of healthy bacteria and complex sugar compounds that have been shown to destroy harmful bacteria, like pneumococcus, E.Coli, Salmonella, even superbugs like C. Diff., a daily vaccine against viruses to which the mother is exposed, contains cancer-fighting cells & stem cells, is chock full of essential fatty acids (e.g., Omega 3′s that build and protect the brain & help with mood stability), and can even help older babies, children and adults to heal from illness.
I’ve been musing for sometime about integrating a gift registry into my website so Baltimore moms-to-be could register for maternity and newborn photography services and products.
I’m no web designer, but I do do love a good DIY project to keep me up at night… said no photographer ever. But I took on the task anyway and it turns out it wasn’t so hard to adapt my current gallery software to allow gift orders.
I am pleased to announce you may now register with Heartlove Photography!
But what’s even better, you can incorporate photography service registries into an awesome website —> http://babyli.st
Baby List is a friendly and easy to use registry where you can add items from any online store or website.
They’ll assign you a personal Registry Happiness Consultant and she’ll get in touch with you personally within a day of starting your registry. And get this, if you call their help line, a real person with real advice answers. Plus they’ll even send you complimentary registration cards to add to shower invitations or announcements to direct your loved ones to one consolidated list.
If that wasn’t cool enough, what really sets Baby List apart is the way you add items to your list – you essentially “pin” them!
You set up a quick, free account and during the process you literally drag and drop an “Add to Babylist” button in your browser. Then, wherever you are in the inter webs when you find something you love, you just click that button and a window pops us to confirm your addition. So easy. SO fun.
One of the things I love most is this allows your loved ones to find those local, independent, work-at-home-mom shops that don’t sell at big box stores and giant ‘R Us-es. Your favorite etsy shop, the baby boutique up the street, a diaper service, vendors from your farmer’s market with a web presence…. they all make your list! And of course so do the big stores and Amazon – but this levels the playing field.
Want to get started? Click here to open up your registry with Heartlove Photography then hop on over to Baby List and add a few other things… like a Nose Frieda. Trust me, you’ll need one.
I wonder if they did a study, if families with 4 children are happiest of all. The more I meet families with that magic number, the more I think it’s true. While I’m sure the day-in-day-out routine with 4 small children can be exhausting, the joy they share seems to make it all worth while. It was a joy to photograph this family of 6 under the cherry blossoms! 
As kids get older, it’s rare to have an image with one parent and one child. Two hands = multitasking and group photos (usually with mom behind the camera) so we took the time to have each child pose with both mom and dad on their own.
Note the scraped knee in this next one… but the photo shoot went on! Tough guy did a great job 🙂 
Now that we are expecting our third baby, I get so excited to see other families looking forward to their third as well! We had a great time capturing 2 big sisters along with their mama’s maternity portraits.
Mommy & Me Portraits 2014 in Baltimore, MD
These are not just for newborns, bring your children of any age to an elegantly simple and light set for portraits that show the connection between mother and child.
Dear Mama, Mom-to-be, Mother, Nana, Mamaw, Grandma, Mommom, Oma, Mommy, Bubby….
……It’s time to get in the picture.
E-mail me for more information or to reserve your session.
This opportunity is perfect for a multi-generation photo of mothers and their children, for nursing portraits, a short maternity session or for an updated image with mom in front of the camera with their child of any age.
Gift Certificates are available in time for Mother’s Day.
Click here for more information or to reserve your session!
I’m so excited to meet this beautiful couple’s October baby! They have waited a long time for little “Tucker!”
I always want to say a little something about the births I witness, but I can’t think of anything but cliches. Every time I think I’m tired of being on-call, of staying up all night, of having my cell phone constantly in hand…. I am there for another birthday and I fall in love with birth all over again. There is nothing quite like watching the birth of a mother and of a family. Seeing love grow and fill a room is beyond words.
Mia had a peaceful, gentle, family-centered cesarean birth carried out by doctors and nurses who showed mom, dad, baby (and this photographer!) so much love. I don’t even want to use the word “surgery” to describe it – that word rings feelings of anxiety and fear. While this birth was performed by a surgery, it was anything but surgical.
Be sure to check back for progression photos of Mia growing in mama’s belly, maternity and newborn posts to come! 🙂
You can see their announcement video here.
Scroll to the bottom for a slideshow with even more images from the day Mia was born and then leave this family your love and congratulations in the comment box!
