According to Rᴇsᴇᴀʀᴄʜ, a baby in the ᴡᴏᴍʙ can not only hears what is being said but also has the ability to remember it after it is delivered. When a newborn baby smiled as soon as she heard her father’s voice for the first time, that is just what it proved.
The father repeated to the baby, everything he used to tell her when she was still in the ᴡᴏᴍʙ and as soon as she recognized her father’s voice, the newborn smiled. Little Antonella ᴍᴇʟᴛᴇᴅ not only her father’s heart but the hearts of thousands of people when the photo of her ᴍɪʟʟɪᴏɴ-ᴅᴏʟʟᴀʀ smile went ᴠɪʀᴀʟ.
The couple Tarsila Rosa and Flávio Vilela were expecting their first child. Flávio was very excited about meeting his daughter and made it a point to talk to her every day. He would greet her every day in the morning and would also come back home for work and talk to his daughter about his day. Flávio always repeated that he loved her very much. He would sᴛʀᴏᴋᴇ ʜɪs ᴡɪFᴇ’s ʙᴇʟʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀssᴜʀᴇᴅ his daughter that he would be there for her always.
On the day Antonella was delivered, the doctors handed over a sleepy baby to the couple. The baby was born at just over 3.125 kg and 49 cm (6.8 lbs and 19.2 inches.) “They put her on top of me sleeping and as soon as he spoke to her, Antonella opened her eyes and smiled,” she said
He repeated to her, everything he used to tell her when she was still in the ᴡᴏᴍʙ and as soon as she recognized her father’s voice, the newborn smiled. Luckily, this precious moment was caught on camera and when it was ᴘᴏsᴛᴇᴅ ᴏɴ Iɴsᴛᴀɢʀᴀᴍ, it instantly ᴡᴇɴᴛ ᴠɪʀᴀʟ.
“I thought I knew what a feeling of true love was, until I looked at that most sincere smile in the world … it was [there] that I could be sure what love is,” said Flávio.
The father described his love for her as something that could not be contained in his ᴄʜᴇsᴛ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ the baby’s mother Tarsila said that her daughter is a gift sent from Gᴏᴅ. As if to further prove that Antonella wasn’t already daddy’s little girl, she was born on Father’s Day in Brazil.
