Why Your Partner Should Be in Your Maternity Photos

This comes up more than you would think. One half of a couple books a maternity session, mentions it to their partner, and the partner finds every possible reason to avoid being in the photos. Too awkward, do not like photos, will just stand there looking weird.

I have heard them all.

Here is the thing. The maternity photos that move people most are rarely the solo shots. They are the ones of two people on the edge of something enormous. The hand on the bump. The look between a couple who is about to become three. The quiet, ordinary moment that captures exactly what this season felt like.

Those shots cannot happen without both of you.

I am not asking your partner to perform or pose or do anything that feels unnatural. Most of the time I give very simple direction: stand here, hold this, look at each other: and the rest happens on its own. People who claim to be terrible in photos almost always surprise themselves.

And down the track, when your child is old enough to ask about the photos from before they were born, you will be very glad both of their parents are in them.

So drag your partner along. I promise it will be fine.