{"id":305,"date":"2023-07-28T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:58:39","slug":"sloans-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/2023\/07\/28\/sloans-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloan’s Birth!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, our world changed forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our beautiful daughter was born today\u2014just a bit earlier than expected\u2014but she’s here, she’s safe, and she’s absolutely perfect. It’s hard to put into words the flood of emotions we’re feeling right now: relief, awe, overwhelming love\u2026 and a deep gratitude that she arrived safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoe went through so much to bring her into the world. It was a tough labor\u2014physically and emotionally\u2014and I am endlessly proud of her strength, courage, and resilience. Watching her fight through every moment with such determination was nothing short of heroic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the challenges, we are now holding our daughter in our arms, and nothing else matters. The exhaustion, the worry, the waiting\u2014it all melts away in the warmth of this little life we’ve created. She\u2019s tiny, perfect, and already completely loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re so excited (and a little nervous!) to start this new chapter as a family. Welcome to the world, little one. We\u2019ve been waiting for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, our world changed forever. Our beautiful daughter was born today\u2014just a bit earlier than expected\u2014but she’s here, she’s safe, and she’s absolutely perfect. It’s hard to put into words the flood of emotions we’re feeling right now: relief, awe, overwhelming love\u2026 and a deep gratitude that she arrived safely. Zoe went through so much to bring her into the world. It was a tough labor\u2014physically and emotionally\u2014and I am endlessly proud of her strength, courage, and resilience. Watching her fight through every moment with such determination was nothing short of heroic. Despite the challenges, we are now holding our daughter in our arms, and nothing else matters. The exhaustion, the worry, the waiting\u2014it all melts away in the warmth of this little life we’ve created. She\u2019s tiny, perfect, and already completely loved. We\u2019re so excited (and a little nervous!) to start this new chapter as a family. Welcome to the world, little one. We\u2019ve been waiting for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1D6A5540.jpg",1350,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1D6A5540-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1D6A5540-300x240.jpg",300,240,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1D6A5540-768x614.jpg",768,614,true],"large":["https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1D6A5540-1024x819.jpg",1024,819,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1D6A5540.jpg",1350,1080,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1D6A5540.jpg",1350,1080,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Dan Gilman","author_link":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/author\/dan_h78d4b\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Today, our world changed forever. Our beautiful daughter was born today\u2014just a bit earlier than expected\u2014but she’s here, she’s safe, and she’s absolutely perfect. It’s hard to put into words the flood of emotions we’re feeling right now: relief, awe, overwhelming love\u2026 and a deep gratitude that she arrived safely. Zoe went through so much to bring her into the world. It was a tough labor\u2014physically and emotionally\u2014and I am endlessly proud of her strength, courage, and resilience. Watching her fight through every moment with such determination was nothing short of heroic. Despite the challenges, we are now holding our daughter in our arms, and nothing else matters. The exhaustion, the worry, the waiting\u2014it all melts away in the warmth of this little life we’ve created. She\u2019s tiny, perfect, and already completely loved. We\u2019re so excited (and a little nervous!) to start this new chapter as a family. Welcome to the world, little one. We\u2019ve been waiting for you.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dan.gilman.photography\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}