{"id":24532,"date":"2019-09-05T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24532"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:08:55","slug":"newborn-daughter-smiles-at-dad-after-recognising-voice-moment-captured-in-viral-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24532","title":{"rendered":"Newborn daughter smiles at Dad after recognising voice, moment captured in viral photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Smiling-Baby.jpg\" alt=\"Newborn daughter smiles at Dad after recognising voice, moment captured in viral photo\" class=\"wp-image-24533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Smiling-Baby.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Smiling-Baby-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Smiling-Baby-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The family of little Antonella believe the beautiful moment happened because she recognised her father\u2019s voice \u2013 that of 25 year old Fl\u00e1vio Dantas. Her mother Tarsila Batista told S\u00f3Not\u00edciaBoa, \u201cThey put her on top of me sleeping and as soon as he spoke to her, Antonella opened her eyes and smiled!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flavio talked and played with the baby throughout pregnancy: \u201cHe always told her that he loved her so much. Good morning when I went to work, arrived good afternoon, said I\u2019d always be there, kept stroking my belly\u2026 And amazingly it always seems at the same time every day she started to move.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antonella smiled at the moment she heard the phrase her Dad had always said during pregnancy. Flavio said, \u201cI thought I knew what a feeling of true love was, until I looked at that most sincere smile in the world \u2026 it was [there] that I could be sure what love is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flavio is a Brazilian naval soldier, whilst Antonella\u2019s mother, Tarsila, worked in a kiosk as an attendant and then as a cook until her daughter was born. 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Her mother Tarsila Batista told S\u00f3Not\u00edciaBoa, \u201cThey put her on top of me sleeping and as soon as he spoke to her, Antonella opened her eyes and smiled!\u201d Flavio talked and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newborn daughter smiles at Dad after recognising voice, moment captured in viral photo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24534,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532\/revisions\/24534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}