Canton Newborn Photographer | Rowan

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We went to up to Akron to meet newborn Rowan at the beginning of the year 🙂 He had a great session, and mom shared some stories for his blog:

• How did mom and dad meet?
  They met at a wedding of mutual friends on mom’s 21st birthday. Dad’s chosen pick-up line when he spotted his future wife in her black dress with bright pink flowers? “May I pollinate you?” He hasn’t lived this down since.
• How did mom tell dad they were expecting?
  He was waiting outside the bathroom door, she took a test after not feeling well for two days. She wasn’t sure if she was pregnant or if it was a wine hangover.
• What was the best/surprising/worst/most annoying thing being pregnant? (Dad can answer too 🙂 )
  Mom works as a physical therapist with older clients, and she didn’t get very big/show very much when she was pregnant. When she would tell her older patients that she was in fact pregnant, her favorite response was “you’re shitting me!” from a 90 year old lady.
• Did you find out if you were having a boy/girl? What was mom and dad’s reactions?
  We found out it was a boy at the 20 week ultrasound. Both of us thought for sure it was a girl so we were surprised! Mom’s first thought was “Oh good, someone else can watch wrestling with Ryan now!”, Dad’s first thought, “Oh man there’s a real person in there!”
• List the possible baby names, and how did you narrow it down?
  If it was a boy, it had to start with an “R” because the last three Ramsey men had names starting with R. If it was a girl we were in trouble because we couldn’t agree on any names we both liked. We knew as soon as we found out it was a boy it would be Rowan, and the middle name was chosen after Olivia’s brother (Rowan’s uncle). We didn’t want to tell anyone what it was going to be, so we just told everyone we wanted to wait until we met him to decide, but we had it “narrowed down” to Reed, Rhett, and Rowan.
• How did labor and delivery go… and how did dad do?
  Rowan showed his stubborn side from the get-go, it only took him 30+ hours and 2+ hours of pushing on mom’s part to get him out. Mom watched the Harry Potter marathon (one of her favorite books/movies) for most of the 30 hours. Dad did awesome through it all!
• What were mom’s first thoughts when she saw her new baby? And dad?
  Both relieved that he was happy, healthy, and crying at the top of his lungs.
• What have the first few days with the baby at home been like?
  Overwhelming, tiring, rewarding, and challenging.

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