A slow morning at home with Zeenav and baby D. I really miss these early days of motherhood, I feel like I didn’t appreciate them enough or how quickly they would pass! The way your baby only has eyes for you, at this stage you provide everything she needs, you are her whole entire world. I miss the thigh creases, the way her fingers grip on to anything they can find, your finger, your necklace, or more usually your hair. How incredibly soft her skin is and how absolutely tiny and perfect her toes and fingers are.

This beautiful Mama and her daughter brought back so many memories of the early months with my girls, and almost made me long for another one so I could do it all again and properly savour it this time. I feel like in the sleep-deprived haze of the early months I wished away time, willing them to move on to the next stage when they would (hopefully) sleep more and need me less constantly, I look back now with so much regret. It’s such a joy to be able to capture this stage for another mother so that she can look back on the photographs years down the line, and remember that feelings of connection and contentedness, rather than the sleepless nights, clothes covered in milk and piles of tiny babygrows to wash!