A pregnancy is a momentous time in a couple’s lives, and many mark the occasion with a professional photo shoot. Here’s some inspiration for those soon-to-be parents looking for creative ideas for their maternity photos.

Few things excite us more than a delicious newborn photo shoot. Those cheeks! Those tiny little toes! But our delight goes into overdrive when we see a session that also includes shots of a stunning nursery.

Whimsical. Playful. Adorable. These are fairly common adjectives used to describe newborn photo shoots. But gravity-defying? That lexicon is usually reserved to the realms of superheroes and physics majors.

Meet Aj and Dani. The lovebirds will soon be parents to a baby girl, and they decided to do a sunrise maternity shoot at The Port of Everett Marina in Washington before their daughter was born and Dani lost her adorable bump.

Get ready for all sorts of feels! This couple created a touching stop-motion video that documents the mom-to-be’s growing belly, from the early stages of pregnancy to the final days before giving birth.

Who says Valentine’s Day is only a celebration of romantic love? We think it should be a celebration of love in all of its wondrous forms, which is why we’re smitten with this family’s Valentine’s Day themed photo shoot.