08/29/2026
If I ever show up to your photo session and your little is crying, know that it doesn't bother or intimidate me. It doesn't. It doesn't. I promise, it doesn't. 💙
I have three children, each of them had colic when they were babies. I remember how hard it was. ❣
I worked as a parent educator for some years, and I had the privilege of going into the homes of families with children under the age of 4 to walk along side them in part of their journey. 👣
Can you guess the topic that came up with every single client? Emotional regulation with children. When they are little and have no words to tell you what they need, they communicate with cries and other non-verbal cues.🧠
It is normal for us to want to react. Babies cry, our bodies respond to them. We were designed to have a response to a child in need. Our first instinct is to to feed and protect them. Their cry is an alert signal saying "I have a need". But sometimes, our brains want to react (rather than calmly respond) because we have tried to feed and protect. When we can't figure out what they need, our fear center of our brain starts to say we are failing.
Protect doesn't always mean unsafety in the sense of life being threatened, especially for a baby. It can be the change of routine, light, noises, or something as simple as their clothes feeling itchy. Their body says "nope, I aint doing this right now".
You as the parent are the expert on your child, if we have to take a few moments to chill so that you and your child can feel safe and calm in your bodies, I will gladly do that.
Love,
The photographer that gets it ❤
