Maternity photoshoot with Smita & Jyoti

Smita and Jyoti are the sweetest couple, and proof that opposites really do attract.

Smita is full of energy and very playful, while Jyoti is quieter, more serious and more patient.

But despite their differences they have one thing very much in common: their excitement about their new arrival, due in just a couple of months.

They’ve decided to keep baby’s gender a surprise, with Smita guessing baby will be a boy, while Jyoti is confident they’ll have a girl.

Smita told me that her pregnancy feels like it’s raced past, and she can’t quite believe that it’s already almost time to have the baby.

To Smita and Jyoti, it seems as though it was just the other day when they had their 20-week scan.

The sonographer said, “Look, your baby is moving!”.

Smita and Jyoti cried happy tears as they watched the blurry black and white shape on the monitor stretch and tilt his or her neck and head as though baby knew their parents were watching.

To prepare for parenthood, Smita and Jyoti have been reading ‘What to expect when you’re expecting’, attending NCT classes and Googling practical information, like how to change a nappy.

Jyoti told me that when baby is here, he wants to be present and able to enjoy the moment, rather than leaving it until that point to try and work out what he needs to know and learn.

Jyoti was educated in the UK before returning to India.

He moved back here with Smita about a year ago, and although there’s only a handful of other Indian families in the area in which they live, they have received a warm welcome through the church community.

It will be too cold here in the UK for their families to visit them in winter, so instead they hope to take their new arrival over to India to meet everyone instead.

They have particularly missed the food from home, so will be looking forward to enjoying some home-cooked meals as well as catching up with everyone.

And I imagine everyone they know in India will be hoping to host them, because if their baby is even half as lovely as they are, then he or she will be very sweet indeed. 🙂 

Hair and makeup by Kate at Ruby Rouge.

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If you’re interested in maternity photography and you’re based in or around Bicester, Oxfordshire, please get in contact.

Sarah Plater AMPA is an award-winning qualified, certified professional newborn and family portrait photographer based in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

She is the Master Photographers Association Young Families Portrait Photographer of the Year 2022 and Newborn Photographer of the Year 2019 for the Central Region (covering Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire).