Basile & Dunice—A Journey Toward Three

There are seasons in life that arrive softly, settling into the quiet spaces between two people before either of them even realises how profoundly everything is changing.

For Basile and Dunice, this season began not with a grand gesture or a dramatic shift, but in the familiar comfort of the places that shaped the early days of their relationship. From the warmth of supermarket aisles where they once wandered during their paktor nights, to the quiet corners of shared routines, their story of two slowly growing into three has been unfolding gently for months.

When we planned their maternity session, we knew it wasn’t about staged poses or creating moments that didn’t belong to them. It was about returning to the places that held their beginnings—places that didn’t just witness their love but shaped its rhythm.

The supermarket where they once roamed without direction, picking snacks and teasing each other over silly choices, became a backdrop not because it was glamorous, but because it was real. These aisles carried the echoes of their early laughter, the ease of being themselves, and the sense of home they had already begun to build long before Cayleb came into the picture.

We retraced their memories with no intention to recreate anything perfectly. Basile playfully picked up oversized snacks the way he always did, and Dunice laughed in that way that only comes from knowing someone deeply. Their love, so effortless in its expression, had carried them through years of companionship, and now it was carrying them into parenthood.

In between these familiar scenes was the new reality growing quietly with every passing week. The ultrasound prints tucked carefully in their hands, the baby booties waiting for tiny feet, and the gentle way Basile rested his palm on Dunice’s growing bump; all spoke of a love expanding in ways neither of them could have imagined. There was a softness in the way they moved together now, as though every touch carried a promise to the little life forming between them.

We spent time in places that meant something to them—their wedding venue where their love story first took shape, their matrimonial home that they spend many quiet hours just watching movies, and even the quiet corners where time seemed to slow down just long enough for their hearts to catch up to the magnitude of what was coming.

Parenthood has a way of redefining familiar spaces, transforming them from memories of the past into foundations for the future.

What stood out most wasn’t the anticipation of Cayleb’s arrival, but the calm, steady way they embraced this transition. Their joy wasn’t loud; it was lived. It was present in the gentle teasing, the soft smiles exchanged when they thought no one was watching, and the unspoken understanding that their story was evolving into something deeper.

There were tender pauses throughout the session—moments when Dunice held her bump with a quiet sense of wonder, or when Basile looked at her with the kind of silly affection that speaks louder than words. These were the scenes that made the journey feel whole, the ones that showed how ready they were to welcome a small, new heartbeat into their world.

As the day unfolded, it became clear that this wasn’t simply a maternity shoot. It was a chapter gently revealing itself. A love story returning to its origins so it could grow into its next form.

Basile and Dunice’s journey into parenthood is not marked by grand milestones alone, but by a collection of tender moments stitched together through time. And somewhere between the aisles of their favourite store, and the sunlight filtering through the places they’ve always known, their story continued in the same way it started—with love lived honestly, and moments that never play by the rules.

And soon, Cayleb will join them in all of it. In the laughter, in the rituals, in the gentle unfolding of the life they’ve built. A story that began with two people finding home in each other is now becoming something even more extraordinary: a family.