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Showing posts with label labor and delivery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor and delivery. Show all posts

September 3, 2011

A Moment 9 Months in the Making: Baby Ryder

Just a little tease of the BirthStory I am currently piecing together.   I am absolutely in love with everything about this couple.   What is not to love?  

This may be one of my fav. pics I have ever taken.   




We were there for the biggest moment that these two have shared as a husband and wife.  For nine months, they waited, dreamed, anticipated, and talked about this one single moment........
  And it all came down to this one single moment.  A moment they will never forget.  This is the kind of stuff you can not get back again.  This is the kind of stuff you can not re-inact.  Real. Pure. Raw Emotion.
 My favorite picture of the day.  Ryder meet your mom.  Mom meet your baby boy.  

Same pouty lips.  Same shared tears.   



This is one BirthStory I can NOT wait to share with you guys!!!!  Coming on Monday..........    :)

January 4, 2011

Jane's BirthStory

A lot of people do not understand what a BirthStory is all about. Once I tell someone that it is a the story of your baby, everything from Maternity to Labor and Delivery to a Newborn Session, it is guaranteed to follow with the question or comment, "Wait....hold on.....You are telling me that you are in the Labor and Delivery Room!?!?" They are usually in shock...then I have to explain to them what it is really all about. I am simply a fly on the wall capturing one of the most important and anticipated moments that the couple will experience in their lives. I capture the raw emotion, the priceless looks on the parents faces the first time they hear their child cry. These are the emotions you can not re-create. It is real. These are the moments you will never get back. We document it in a way that every our clients watch the final product, it brings them back to those 9 months that seemed to have flown by once it is all said and done.

Michael and Erin contacted us during their first trimester. They were both equally as excited to have a BirthStory of their own. They not only waited for a baby, they also waited to find out if their baby on the way was going to be a Jane or a Tyge. Boy or girl, there were a few things I knew.....1. This baby would be a KU fan (This is where Michael and Erin Met: and they are proud alums....let me tell you). and 2. This baby was going to be loved to no end. I knew with out a doubt in my mind that Michael and Erin would make loving parents who would give anything for their baby, and they come from families who I know were ready and willing to spoil the newest addition to the Hurley fam. Here is Baby Jane's full BirthStory.......

Hurley BirthStory from LeLe Photography on Vimeo.



My favorite image from Jane's BirthDay.
Kelly has been one of my best friends for a long time. If anyone is in a room with us for two minutes, they can see why. We share the same sense of humor, the same love for love stories, and the same strong, independence, and the same wild side. :) This was the moment she first met Jane. When we were in the C-section room....she kept texting me, "I can't believe you get to meet the baby before me!!!!" I responded with the simple, "Perks of the job. ;) "
This is Erin's father. This picture says it all to me....
This is for a safe delivery.....

I am going to leave you with a message I received from Michael a couple days after he picked up the BirthStory:

"6 for 6 I have cried while watching this now. I can't tell you how much we love this video. I can't wait for years down the road when Jane understands the video herself. We can't wait for her next set of pictures this spring/summer. You have definitely got yourself a birthstory client for each of the children we will have. You and your sister are absolutely amazing."

When the BirthStory is ready, I usually watch it with my clients. Getting to witness the looks on their faces and the tears roll down their cheeks as they are brought back to the moments that passed by so fast they did not even realize happened......that is what I live for. Their happiness means everything to me. Thank you Michael, Erin and Baby Jane for reminding me once again how blessed I am to do what I do on a daily basis. See you in the Spring!!! :)

View Jane's Ripe Belly Session HERE.
View Jane's Itty Bitty Session HERE.

Contact LeLe Photography HERE.

January 10, 2010

Welcome Mya Grace!

I shot a birth a few hours ago and wanted to share a little sneak peek of the beautiful Mya Grace!!! She surprised Mom and Dad 13 days early and they couldn't be happier. Can't wait to take her newborn pics next week! :)



More to come later...

July 17, 2009

About Time!!!

We are so excited to share the Birth Story of a little miracle named Gus! His Mommy and Daddy waited five long years for his arrival!! In fact, at the hospital it was so cute, Scott had bought Ashley a gift 3 months prior and had been dying to give it to her and he showed me at the hospital and it was a beautiful watch and I was like ooh a watch... I remember thinking that's different. It wasn't until the newborn session they were talking about the watch and it's significance I finally "got it". He said." a watch... About time!! Five years..." OOH I get it!!! :)




Daaaannng Scott... Looking good! :)


My FAVORITE!!! Ashley you are gorgeous!








Can you believe how stinkin' cute Gus is?









Check out their Birth Story...