Birth Photography In your first or second trimester. I take a 1 doula client per month.

Pregnancy Portraits In your second trimester if you want to make sure I’m available, but anytime before 36 weeks works. I typically take your photos at the beginning-middle of your third trimester

Babies In your second or third trimester. We’ll book a tentative date, and I’ll adjust my schedule to accommodate when your baby is born.

Families Preferably at least 1 month before you want to schedule your session, although I offer special sessions as my schedule allows that open up more bookings.

Couples/Partners Photography Within 6 weeks is ideal; at least 2 weeks before you want your session.

photography sessions start at $700; birth photography starts at $2,100; doula services start at $2,400 // payments are totally fine, and i’ve got a sliding scale for doula services if you need it

Short answer: yes!

Most of my clients have their babies at hospitals. I’m comfortable and skilled in working in a hospital environment and with both midwives and OBs.

I attend birth center and home births on a case by case basis - get in touch and we can talk more!

Heck yeah, I do!

I often have clients in Michigan and Chicagoland and I travel up to a hour radius. My standard radius is 2.5 hours from South Bend, and for folks over 45 minutes outside of South Bend I ask for a $200 travel fee.

Outside of that radius, but want me to be your doula or photographer? Babe, send me a message and tell me where you are! I love working with travel clients. <3

For travel clients by request: a travel fee is included and depends on the when, where, and why of it all.

Sometimes I’m in your city and taking bookings, so keep up with me on the gram if you want to know when that might be.

YES.

I’m comfortable with taking pictures of anything. Most of my clients want vulnerable, intimate pictures taken, and often during births, pregnancy portraits, or in some side projects my clients are emotionally and physically intimate, partially or completely undressed, and even sensual. I work to co-create a space that my clients feel safe to be vulnerable in and just exist in front of the camera.

With that said, it can feel awkward to ask, and it’s normal to feel awkward or shy at moments. It’s all about how you feel and what you want.

Here’s how it works:

• we discuss in advance what you would and wouldn’t prefer pictures of during your birth or other pregnancy portraits.

• I have you learn 2 code words to create a safe space and allow you to establish boundaries in the moment as well: PAUSE, which means I stop taking pictures and we take a beat and check in, and STOP, which means I stop taking pictures and get out of your space, and we don’t resume unless you want to, and until you are ready.

• I check in along the way and ask specific questions so you know exactly what you are saying yes and no to. Depending on what I sense is needed from the moment, I may be chatty with you or I may offer you silence to settle into.

Most importantly, you get to decide what happens.

I have three (delightful, gorgeous, and whip-smart) back up doulas that I work with and can call on if needed who i trust implicitly with my clients and have the same approach and values as i do in this work.

Having a back up doula join you is usually in a case that I can’t join you right away so they come until I arrive, or something similar. If they do stay for the entire birth, they will join us at your postpartum visit.

A pregnancy loss is one of the most heartbreaking experiences anyone can have, and if this happens my heart goes out to you more than you know. I offer a full refund in these cases. Sometimes people ask me to move forward as their doula, photographer, or both, and support them and document their miscarriage or labor. Sometimes people want me to hold their deposits for future services. I am comfortable with any of those options.