Maternity Portraits | Grand Rapids, Michigan

After photographing Christy's wedding over a year ago it was a pleasure to meet up with her for a maternity photography session. Since she lives in the Grand Rapids area it was less of a commute than when we saw her at her wedding in the Detroit area.

She had the pregnancy glow and it showed in her beautiful photographs!

This is Christy's 7th month of pregnancy. For maternity photography we always recommend clients schedule their session around the 7th month. Although some like to get their photos taken around the 7th month and again right before the birth of their baby. We recommend that mothers keep in mind that because babies keep their own arrival schedule a secret until the big day and we don't want anyone to miss the opportunity to have their maternity portraits taken they should think about scheduling their sessions slightly ahead of time.

Christy is an army wife. Daddy was unable to attend the maternity session. We asked Christy to bring along a few things to represent him in the maternity photographs. We thought her tee was so cute tied up like this to show off her growing baby. Daddy served in Iraq and we thought he'd appreciate these photos of his gorgeous wife and baby to be.


You'd never know that Christy is self consious about her expanding belly from these pictures. We got her to have some fun with the camera and enjoyed some of these sassier pregancy portraits. She has nothing to worry about, she's one hot mama!

Whenever we schedule a maternity session we ask our clients to bring along a few photography props that have special meaning. These cute baby pink Converse high-tops were Christy's contribution to her maternity session. They are so unbelieveably cute that we had to give them their own mini portrait session! Christy is a shoe lover and she's starting her baby off in the cutest of pairs!


A few portraits that we think really captured that gorgeous preganancy glow Christy had during her maternity photo session!

Christy brought along her husbands wedding shirt to wear in her photographs.

This picture of the shoes on Christy's pregnant belly was one of her favorites. It's such a fun pregnancy picture!


Christy is a teacher so it's only natural that we captured her reading a book to her unborn babe! We can't wait to meet her little girl at her first infant photo session!

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