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IMO getting a picture that is 'magic' of a small child/newborn has nothing to do with the equipment you use.
Common sense dictates that you should not use hard light (simply doesn't work with a baby) and you'll need to shoot with a slightly longer lens (shoving a lens/camera real close in a newborns face will without a doubt frighten it, possibly causing it to break in a bawling session), but that's IMO about all the technical advise that can be given beforehand. And keep the studio nice and warm, babies don't like cold either.
Much more important is how you shoot, like e.g. high standpoint vs eyelevel.
Or expecting you can 'direct' the baby in a pose vs patiently waiting for the special split second and capturing it.
In my experience even babies as young as you mention may not be able to grasp or pay any attention to instructions or directions, but are conscious to sounds, movement/light around them and react to those impulses. Those glimpses of consciousness will create the split second moments that when captured in a picture may be seen as something special. But you'll need to be patient, shoot fast , and a lot,
http://www.pbase.com/paul_k/image/124186566
http://www.pbase.com/paul_k/image/124186573
Of course you can try to emulate or imitate the 'Anne Gedes' style which by some is considered 'magic'. There definitely is a market for that, and is therefor often enough imitated by other photographers , even if some - like me - think it the ultimate sugarcoated kitsch around
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