In the fresh afterglow of birth, when mama and baby are both so open and new (having just been born, both of them), a gentle, slow on-site photo shoot puts all of that into a static frame to later be revisited when the newborn haze is over and the desire to remember what those first days were like surfaces with urgency.

We don’t ever want to forget these moments.

In a quiet hospital room on a sunny day, here’s just-born Jacob and his mama Jackie and his papa, too.