Canton Newborn Photographer | Lilah

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Miss Lilah’s parents both shared a bit about how she came to be 🙂 Love their answers!

• How did mom and dad meet?
  Mom: We met through our mutual friend at a local bar during a classy and romantic game of jumbo beer pong.

  Dad: We met through a mutual friend who thought we would like each other, turns out he was right.

• How did mom tell dad they were expecting?
  Mom: I called him at work 700 times until he answered and then he had zero cell service so he had to run all over the place to get a few bars. I wish I would’ve planned something a little more loving instead of almost getting him fired…

  Dad: She was so excited she called me and blurted it out, I didn’t mind though cause it was one of the happiest days of my life.

• What was the best/surprising/worst/most annoying thing being pregnant? (Dad can answer too 🙂 )
  Mom: I have no idea what tayler said but the worst part was by far throwing up (I did so for 23 straight weeks) and the best thing was getting to feel her hiccup 🙂

  Dad: The best thing was waking up every morning knowing we are going to have a little peanut.

• Did you find out if you were having a boy/girl? What was mom and dad’s reactions?
  Mom: We did! Of course Peanut made it difficult and crossed her legs at our first anatomy scan. During our second ultrasound she went spread eagle for about 30 seconds so we could see the goods. Tayler cried (I’m pretty sure his tears were like 80% happiness and 20% sadness that he had been wrong my entire pregnancy about Peanut being a boy). I was just happy to know she was healthy.

  Dad: We found out we were having a girl and we couldn’t have been more happy to be having a little angel.

• List the possible baby names, and how did you narrow it down?
  Mom: I have this endearing quality of never making decisions/changing my mind nonstop. About once a week I had a new name picked out that I swore was going to be hers and then I’d change my mind. Lilah was the only name to actually last longer than a few days so we went with it!

  Dad: It was down to the last minute and we just played the like dislike game till we picked the perfect one.

• How did baby prep go? (Putting in the car seat, setting up the crib, stuff like that.)
  Mom: No one told me that you needed a Ph. D in advanced engineering and rocket science to put together all of the stuff we had for her. The high chair mocked me while her swing just completely destroyed my self-esteem.

  Dad: Not to brag or anything but I felt I was a champ at putting four pieces of wood together.

• How did labor and delivery go… and how did dad do?
  Mom: Labor and delivery was a nightmare. I went into labor two weeks early on a Friday night. I labored naturally for almost 24 hours before they told me I needed to be induced because things weren’t progressing. Shortly following the devils liquid (pitocin) I got an epidural. Shortly following that my not so little girl got stuck in my pelvic bone and we had to have an emergency c section where my epidural failed and I felt everything until they could get pain meds into my hand IV. And my brave husband, who is terrified of needles and blood, sat by my side like a champ through out the whole thing.

  Dad: Delivery was a long and stressful 30 hours and all I kept think is how unbelievably strong my wife is. I think I did better than I thought I would.

• Did your baby look like what you expected?
  Mom: Pretty much. She looks just like Tayler which is fitting since he did all the hard work of carrying her 9 months and delivering her ?

  Dad: Yes she came out looking as beautiful as her mom.

• What were mom’s first thoughts when she saw her new baby? And dad?
  Mom: I wish I could say I thought something beautiful and poetic but I was high as a kite with the amount of drugs they had to give me so I’m pretty sure I just cried like a baby once we were finally able to see her.

  Dad: I was so happy I was crying, I have never seen such a beautiful little girl before.

• What have the first few days with the baby at home been like?
  Mom: The first few days were a whole new level of terrible. I still had tree trunks for legs, my incision hurt constantly because I refused to take pain meds and tayler had to go back to work. It took us probably 3 days just to get a little sleep.

  Dad: It took time to adjust but I think once we all got settled and in a routine it went a lot better.

• Who does your baby look like?
  Mom: Dad

  Dad: Me

• Does your baby have a nickname?
  Mom: Peanut

  Dad: Peanut

• What is your favorite itty bitty part of your baby, and why? (Like toes, hair swirls, fingers, etc)
  Mom: Her little toes and the way she constantly sticks her tongue out

  Dad: I love everything about her, it’s hard not to love every little thing.

*And of course I had to include some of that little tongue sticking out 😉

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Carrie Bandy is an Canton newborn photographer also specializing in families and baby photography in the Canton, Ohio area including Akron and New Philadelphia, Ohio.