Maternity session
Photographs of this pregnancy, made in the weeks it shows best, at a pace that allows for sitting down — and moved at no cost if the date has to change.
- Reply within about two hours
- Price agreed before the session
- Free reschedule for bad weather
What’s included
- 30 retouched photographs
- Outdoors or at home
- Private gallery within 48–72 hours
Who it is for
Who books this, and why
Anyone who has avoided the camera all pregnancy
Plenty of people reach thirty weeks with no photograph of themselves from the whole pregnancy except a mirror selfie. One session inside the right window is enough to put that right.
Couples expecting their first child
The last weeks as two people. If your partner wants to be in part of the session, say so when booking; being photographed together is often easier than being photographed alone.
Anyone who would rather not leave the house
In the last weeks, getting to a location is the tiring part. The session can happen at home, by the best window with a sofa a step away, and it is the same thirty photographs.
Portfolio
Maternity session portfolio
A selection of maternity session shots to inspire your shoot.
How it works
From the first message to your gallery
Write before thirty weeks
Send your due date, your city and whether you lean towards outdoors or home. Writing a few weeks ahead leaves room for a date well inside the thirty-to-thirty-six-week window rather than at its edge.
Date, photographer and place confirmed
Usually the same working day. If you need to move it later at short notice — a bad night, a check-up, swollen ankles — it moves at no cost.
Seventy-five minutes, in bursts
Ten or fifteen minutes of photographs, then a chair and some water. Standing frames come first while you are fresh; seated frames and close-ups come later, once standing has stopped being a pleasure.
Thirty photographs in 48–72 hours
Retouched and delivered to a private gallery within 48 to 72 hours, so they are with you weeks before the birth rather than one more thing to chase afterwards.
Four details — place, date, session and how to reach you — are enough for a written quote. Nothing to pay to ask.
Before the session
How to prepare
Short, practical, and the part most people skip. None of it costs anything, and all of it shows in the photographs.
- Bring one fitted outfit that follows the bump and one looser one; a loose dress on its own hides what the session is for.
- Choose plain fabrics in solid colours; large prints compete with the shape.
- Wear flat shoes to get there. If you want heels in some frames, bring them and put them on only for those.
- At home, clear one corner by the largest window. The rest of the house does not need to be tidy.
- Eat before the session and keep water and a snack within reach throughout.
- If your fingers are swelling, take rings off the night before; the marks they leave show in close-ups of hands.
Book Maternity session in your city
Available in 8 Portuguese cities and destinations. Choose yours.
About this session
Why thirty to thirty-six weeks
- Starting from
- €190
- Duration
- 75 min
- Edited photos
- 30
- Cities
- 8
The window is not arbitrary. Before about thirty weeks the shape that the session exists to photograph is not yet unambiguous in a photograph, and after thirty-six standing for seventy-five minutes stops being comfortable — and discomfort is visible in a way that no editing removes. Between the two there is a six-week window that is both, and booking inside it is the whole of the planning.
Beyond that it is an ordinary portrait session with one adjustment: it is shorter in practice than on paper, because the useful part happens in bursts with sitting down in between. Outdoors or at home both work, and home is often better in the later weeks for exactly that reason. Thirty retouched photographs and a private gallery within 48 to 72 hours. If the session has to move at short notice, it moves at no cost, which at this stage of a pregnancy is not a courtesy but a requirement.
Frequently asked questions about Maternity session
I do not feel good about how I look right now. Is this a bad idea?
Many people feel exactly that at thirty-something weeks, and it is a reason to have direction rather than a reason to skip the session. The photographer chooses the angles and tells you where to put your weight and your hands, so you are never left to improvise a pose you do not trust.
Outdoors or at home — which is better?
Outdoors gives more variety of background and suits the earlier part of the window, while walking is still easy. Home is calmer and warmer, with a sofa within reach, which counts for more in the last weeks. Both come to the same thirty photographs.
Is it all right to do this at thirty-six weeks?
The session asks nothing more physical than standing, walking a little and sitting down, with breaks whenever you want them. If your doctor has told you to rest, follow that and move the date; moving it costs nothing.
How revealing do the photographs have to be?
As revealing as you decide, and no more. A fitted dress or a T-shirt pulled close over the bump shows the shape clearly. A bare-bump frame is something you can ask for, not something you will be asked about.
Maternity session, from €190
Tell us the place and the date. You get a written quote within about two hours during the working day, and the price you are quoted is the price you pay.