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Fresh 48 Photography
at the Mater Hospital SPringfield

Springfield, Springfield Lakes and Ipswich

Newborn Photographer

There is a quiet moment after your baby arrives.
 

The room settles. The world feels a little different.

Your baby stretches, yawns, and fits into your arms in a way that already feels impossible to explain.
 

A Fresh 48 session at the Springfield Mater Hospital captures this exact time. The first hours of your baby’s life, photographed gently in your hospital room while everything is still new.
 

These sessions are simple and natural. Your baby in the hospital bassinet. Tiny fingers wrapped around yours. The bracelet on their wrist. The way you look at each other when it finally feels real.
 

Nothing staged. Just your story as it begins.

newborn baby at fresh 48 session at the mater with hospital bracelet

Fresh 48 Sessions at Mater Mothers Hospital SPringfield

I photograph Fresh 48 sessions at the Springfield Mater Hospital. 
 

Once your baby arrives, you can send me a message and we plan a time for me to visit while you are still in hospital. Sessions usually take place during the day when the room has the best light- and during their set visiting hours. 
 

The session is relaxed and 100% respectful of your recovery. If you need a little more time after birth, we wait. If baby needs feeding or settling, we can pause. 
 

There is no pressure to look or feel “ready”. These photographs are about this season exactly as it is.

Fresh 48 newborn photography session at Mater Mothers Hospital in Brisbane with baby resting in hospital bassinet

What a Mater Fresh 48 Session Looks Like

A typical Fresh 48 session lasts around 60 minutes, but this can vary depending on you and your bub. 
 

During that time I photograph small moments as they unfold:

  • Your baby in the hospital bassinet

  • Parents holding and meeting their baby

  • Siblings visiting for the first time

  • Skin to skin cuddles

  • The tiny details you will forget faster than you expect
     

Your hospital room is the perfect setting.
The light, the blankets, the bassinet and the quiet atmosphere are all part of your baby’s story.

These are the photographs families return to years later when they want to remember how small everything once was and that feeling of their family in those very first moments. 

When to Book Your Mater Springfield Fresh 48 Photographer

Fresh 48 sessions are best booked during pregnancy so I can reserve space around your due date.
 

I only take a small number of hospital sessions each month to remain flexible when babies decide to arrive early or late.
 

Once your baby is born, you simply send a message from hospital and we schedule the session within the first day or two.
That said, if baby is already earth-side, please reach out and I can see what I can do. 

Combining a Fresh 48 and Newborn Session

Many families choose to combine a Fresh 48 session at the Springfield Mater with a relaxed in home newborn session a week or two later with the First Weeks Collection. 

The two sessions tell the full story.  
 

The hospital photographs capture the very beginning.
The newborn session captures the first days at home once your family has settled.
 

By reserving a Fresh 48 session and a Lifestyle Newborn session together, you receive a reduced session fee of $100 on your newborn session, as a thank you for trusting me to document your family’s story from the very beginning
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Together they create a collection of images that follow the start of your baby’s life and make the worlds best baby album. 

A baby girl is in a hospital bassinet meeting her big sister at the mater mothers hospital in south brisbane

Fresh 48 Photography at Springfield Mater Mothers Hospital 

Since 2026, many local Springfield and Ipswich families are choosing to welcome their babies at Mater Mothers Private Hospital Springfield, one of the newest maternity hospitals in the region.
 

I photograph Fresh 48 sessions at Mater Springfield, capturing the quiet, emotional first hours of your baby’s life while you’re still in hospital.
 

Because Springfield is ideally located for both Brisbane’s western suburbs and the Ipswich region, I regularly photograph Fresh 48 sessions for families from:
 

  • Springfield Lakes

  • Brookwater

  • Augustine Heights

  • Redbank Plains

  • Ripley

  • Ipswich

  • Karalee

  • Kenmore and surrounding western Brisbane suburbs
     

If you’re planning to give birth at Mater Springfield, a Fresh 48 session is a beautiful way to preserve those fleeting first moments and the very beginning of your baby’s story.

parents holding newborn during Fresh 48 session at Mater Mothers Hospital South Brisbane

Booking a Mater Hospital Fresh 48 Session

If you are expecting your baby at the Mater Hospital in Springfield or South Brisbane and would love these early moments photographed, I would love to hear from you.

Fresh 48 sessions are limited each month so I can remain on call around your due date. Enquire early during your pregnancy to secure availability.

You are also welcome to contact me directly to check availability and ask any questions.

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Gabrielle Meade is a Brisbane-based fresh 48newborn, and family photographer offering light-filled, emotive photography experiences to capture the love, sunshine and adventure of a life with little ones across Brisbane, Ipswich, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.

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