Laurie Sachs Photography

This is a very spe­cial new­born ses­sion, one it seems like I waited for­ever for! Meet my friend Janet and her lovely fam­ily. Janet’s son Zack was pre­ma­ture, born at just 31 weeks ges­ta­tion. He is a happy and healthy boy now but spent months in the NICU and has suf­fered many health effects related to his pre­ma­tu­rity. Last year Janet became preg­nant again but her lit­tle girl Cor­rine was born at just 23 weeks, too early to sur­vive. Cor­rine lived for just 30 min­utes. You can imag­ine the excite­ment and panic when Janet real­ized she was preg­nant again, with fra­ter­nal twins! Every week we all counted down, it was a long and scary road. There were months of bedrest, weeks of hos­pi­tal­iza­tion, med­ical pro­ce­dures to try and main­tain the preg­nancy. We all breathed a sigh of relief when she passed the week she lost Cor­rine, another when she reached 28 weeks and sur­vival rates went up, another when she passed Zack’s ges­ta­tion! Every week Janet’s friends got a bit gid­dier, how far could she go? By sheer will and deter­mi­na­tion and some amaz­ing med­ical care the girl made it 37 weeks, deliv­er­ing FULL TERM HEALTHY TWINS. Last week when we shot the twins new­born ses­sion sev­eral times we all just stepped back to look at them and cried… and now I’m cry­ing again. What a mir­a­cle to watch unfold. A cause that is near and dear to Janet’s heart is the March of Dimes, doing the hard work every­day to pre­vent pre­ma­tu­rity and sup­port the fam­i­lies of pre­ma­ture babies. If you are so inclined please click on through and sup­port the March of Dimes, every lit­tle bit counts.