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I had my son photographed at 2.5 weeks and I would say no later than that. he was actually a little tough to situate because by that age they don't sleep as deeply as they do that first week, so whenever we tried to get him into cute positions he'd wake up, or stretch and squirm. Basically he ruled the shoot lol there wasn't much "posing" involved cause he'd never stay how we positioned him. He was awake most of the time, and even when I tried nursing him to sleep, he'd wake up once we started moving him.
It was funny, but we missed some shots we wanted to try because he wouldn't sleep deep enough.
I've seen most babies have theirs done between 5-7 days. I know it seems early lol

My little guy had really bad baby acne by 3 weeks. I got my best shots of him being the sleepy newborn baby for the first 2 weeks.

We did them at home ourselves at 4 weeks pp. If you get them professionally done, I know photographers like shooting babies between 10 days-2 weeks old.

my lo was 6 days old when we did her newborn photos:
http://www.pistolsandpearlsphotography.com/
she's the third one in the automatic slideshow, in the red & aqua.
she was 9lbs, 13oz at birth, though, so she did have some meat on her

my photog recommended taking the photos no later than 10 days, though, I think is what it was. 14 at the latest, b/c infant acne & a lot of other things start showing up after that. plus, like a pp said, they don't sleep as deeply & aren't as malleable. plus that scrawniness is part of the newborn aspect, isn't it, for babies that aren't just big? if your so wants some photos w/ meat & whatnot, why not wait until your lo is able to support themselves sitting up & take some photos then? that would be really fun & would make for some great photos as well

We got ours when DD was 8 days old which was ideal because she changed so much within just the first few weeks.

I would have liked to do them before a week but dh didn't have time so we ended up getting them done at 1 1/2 weeks and it made a big difference. Like coco bee said, she was more awake and didn't want to hold still for really cute poses

we did them at 3 weeks both times but i'd suggest max 2 weeks.