with digital cameras, it doesn't hurt anything to take tons and tons of pics then weed out the ones you want later. when i go on vacation for a week i usually take like 1500+ pics. 90% of them are probably garbage, but there are some great ones in there.
my first born turned 2 months old yesterday. we probably have 7000 pics in 2 months lol. okay well maybe not that many, but we have a lot. i also got a dslr 3-4 weeks ago and have taken already 1500 pics with that camera alone, not including the iphone pics we've taken.
hell we did his "2 month" photo yesterday and i took 41 pics. we used 1 of them.