You already shoot weddings and babies – so what about the bit in between? Meet Courtenay Hitchcock, one of the UK’s leading pregnancy portrait photographers

Christina Aguilera recently hit the headlines of the gossip blogs when she became the latest young starlet to formally announce her pregnancy by posing naked on the cover of a glossy magazine, though she wasn’t the first – and nor will she be the last – celebrity to pose in her birthday-suit-made-for-two. But it’s not just celebrities that are stripping off for the camera; pregnancy photography is becoming increasingly fashionable in the UK and canny photographers would do well to add it to their repertoire of services.
I caught up with one of the (if not the) leading British “pregnancy photographers”, Courtenay Hitchcock, to ask him about the rise of pregnancy portraits and his own approach to the genre – particularly his “Pregnant Pause Babymoon” packages.