As a parent we would be lying if we said it was easy. Our strength as parents comes from keeping it real. Those sleepless nights, brutal!! The helpless feeling when we don’t know what they need, overwhelming! Wanting to ask for help but feeling like a failure because you need it in the first place, why?!

This parenting gig, it’s got all the feels, right? One of the most valuable things we can do is just embrace it all, the good along with the bad. We don’t have to enjoy every moment, it doesn’t make us love our children any less, but talking about it can help us feel like its more normal, and that in itself can make us feel less alone. Break through those expectations we have for this journey into parenthood, let’s muddle our way through together and when you catch yourself watching them sleep, I can assure you all those hard moments you could probably do without, will melt away and you will be left with the reason why we do it!

But on a lighter note, I recently met this lovely family with the arrival of their second baby girl Evie. I can tell her big sister just adores her and they will become such good friends.

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A baby is a piece of the family puzzle that sometimes you didn’t even know needed to fit. Sometimes they are the beginning piece or other times, they may be the final one. You can think about all the ways a baby would slot into your life before they are born, you may find yourself sitting with the worries about the unknown, trying to make sense of it all. But until they are here, you won’t know,and usually you will finally have that assurance that they are exactly where they need to be.

Whether it be one baby, or 10, your heart will expand every time because it knows no limit on how much it can hold.

It was so lovely to meet Hugh and his beautiful family and photograph their special memories.

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