The Birth Photos Your Phone Can’t Take You probably already have your phone ready. It’s probably going to be in the room when your baby is born. Someone will take a picture. Maybe they’ll take dozens. And I’m all for it. Take the phone pictures. Grab the blurry ones,too. Keep the ones where someone accidentally […]

Hiring a birth photographer isn’t just about finding someone whose portfolio you love. Of course, you want to love the photographs. But you’re also inviting someone into one of the most personal, vulnerable and unpredictable experiences of your life. Your birth photographer may see you laugh, cry, shake, sweat, lose your patience, find your strength […]

*Less than 1 in 80,000 babies are born this way. I witnessed one at my very first birth session.* The Moment I First Saw an En Caul Birth I was sitting on the floor of a bedroom in Fort Worth. Soft music played under low, warm lights. Paige labored in the tub for a while […]

If you have seen the phrase “Fresh 48” floating around and had absolutely no idea what it meant — you are not alone. As a Fort Worth newborn photographer, it is consistently one of the most common questions I hear from expecting families. So let me break it all the way down for you. What […]

I asked for my first birth session as a DFW birth photographer at a jump park. I was terrified. She said yes. And nothing has been the same since. There is a moment I think about a lot. I am sitting on the floor of a bedroom in Fort Worth. The lights are low. There […]

I walked in expecting chaos. What I found changed everything I thought I knew about birth. Before I photographed my first home birth, I had never been inside one. I’d had five babies of my own — all at the hospital, all with an epidural, all exactly the way I’d planned them. The idea of […]

7 Things Nobody Tells You About Labor (But Your DFW Birth Photographer Has Seen It All) By Emily King · Poppy+Blue Photography · DFW Birth Photographer serving Fort Worth, Dallas, Grapevine, Mansfield & surrounding areas As a DFW birth photographer, I have had the extraordinary privilege of being in the room for some of the […]

Birth is the ultimate “Give To Gain” moment. As we celebrate Women’s Month, we honor the grit and the grace it takes to bring a new life into the world. It is a transformative experience where a mother gives her strength, her body, and her breath to gain a lifetime of love. While maternity sessions […]

Why Maternity Photography is a Tribute to Womanhood Maternity photography in Fort Worth is about so much more than just capturing a “bump.” As we celebrate Women’s Month this March, I’ve been reflecting on the sheer resilience of the female body. There is a specific kind of strength found in the “wait”—that transformative period where […]

There is a specific kind of magic that happens when a mother knows her body so well that she can predict the arrival of her child down to the hour. If you are looking for a peaceful home birth story, Brittany’s experience is the perfect example of intuition and grace. When she called me at […]