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little plum photography

I would love to hear from you! Please fill out the form below with details of the type of photography or service that interests you. If inquiring about birth photography and doula services, please include due date, where you plan to deliver and if you are interested in adding any photography packages.

310.985.9985

stephanie@littleplumphoto.com

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
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Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The human eye to see,
You won the race for life
From among 250 million competitors.
And yet,
How fast you have forgotten
Your strength,
When your very existence
Is proof of your greatness.
You were born a winner,
A warrior,
One who defied the odds
By surviving the most gruesome
Battle of them all.
And now that you are a giant,
Why do you even doubt victory
Against smaller numbers,
And wider margins?
The only walls that exist,
Are those you have placed in your mind.
And whatever obstacles you conceive,
Exist only because you have forgotten
What you have already
Achieved.

Poetry by Suzy Kassem

Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
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The first latch... Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
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The “golden hour”
“While everyone knows infants need to bond with their mothers early on, research has shown that what happens during the first 60 minutes of a baby’s life can maximize that bonding experience between mother and child. That uninterrupted contact between mother and baby during the “golden hour” after birth is critical to the child’s growth and development.”
During labor and the minutes and hours afterward, the mother’s body experiences several amazing changes. Giving birth generates changes in a woman’s brain chemistry that increases desire to nurture.
“Skin-to-skin contact and the baby’s suckling at the breast release hormones that help the mother to connect to her child and cause the uterus to contract and stop bleeding. Research has shown that nursing within the first hour of life improves infant survival rates and makes it more likely that a mother will continue to breastfeed longer.” Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
#skintoskin #birthdoula #igmotherhood #cameramama #birthphotographer #thegoldenhour #thebirthfemmes #birthbecomesher #lookslikefilm #dearphotographer #documentaryphotography

I’ve had quite a full last few months, which is great and wonderful because I’m doing what I love...and it’s also exhausting and challenging all wrapped up into one. I took this photo at a birth not knowing at the time I would go straight to another one two hours away and be up for two days.
I’m taking some time to get caught up and to finish editing my ever so patient and gracious clients’ galleries.
And I’m also gearing up for the most exciting part...the arrival of my little niece sometime in the next month.
Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
#selfie #clickinmoms #igmotherhood #cameramama #birthphotographer #hardworkpaysoff #auntie #birthdoula #lookslikefilm

I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole
and complete
Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
#dearphotographer #birthbecomesher #losangelesphotographer #breastfeeding #motherhood #clickinmoms #thefamilynarrative #lookslikefilm #beyondthewanderlust #takeheartmydear #inbeautyandchaos #thebloomforum #littleandbrave #igmotherhood #candidchildhood #cameramama

Every birth reminds us of how precious life is.
Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
#birthphotography #birthbecomesher #birth #birthdoula #losangelesphotographer #love #newparents #birthunited

“A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after — oh, that’ s love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she’s gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She’s the one you can’t put down.” Barbara Kingsolver~ The Poisonwood Bible
#motherhood #emotionalstorytelling #documentaryphotography #mothering #birthbecomesher #dearphotographer #lookslikefilmkids #losangelesphotographer #newbornphotography #breastfeeding #bottlefeeding #postpartum #secondborn #hellobeautiful #clickinmoms #cameramama #thebloomforum

More specifically being a dad is a diverse responsibility, and it is also defined by providing support to your partner in the glorious journey of parenthood. ~Natalie L S West

Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles

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What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails,
And puppy dog tails.
That's what little boys are made of.

Anonymous

Little Plum Photography | Los Angeles
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