Photo:Kenzie Hammock
Kenzie Hammock
NEEDTOBREATHE’sSeth Boltand his wife Tori are parents!
“Giving birth to Amma was the most surreal, transformative experience I have ever lived and unlike anything I ever imagined,” Tori tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Passionate about having an unmedicated, natural birth, I spent the last nine months training my body and, more importantly, my mind, for the occasion.”
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“The nurses rushed to get us to our room and were in disbelief at how far along I was, due to my relaxed, calm state (thank you, hypnobirthing).”
Once she was born, the newborn and her parents shared a special moment together. “After she arrived, our new family of three shared an intimate moment seated on the floor in the corner of that dimly lit room, sitting in silence and awe of this new life,” Seth tells PEOPLE. “It was a sacred moment that will forever be imprinted in our memory.”
“Precious little girl is going to literally grow up above the clouds on the mountaintops of beautiful Whitwell, Tenn. at theBolt Farm Treehouse,” Seth says. “So, we wanted a unique name that embodied this epic setting and once I wrote out AMMA in all caps and saw that it was shaped like mountains, I fell in love with the name even though I had never seen or heard the name before.”
Seth adds: “Amma also honors my Cherokee and Tori’s Brazilian ancestry. Amma is a root word for ‘mother’ in Cherokee and ‘love’ in Portuguese. Amma is both powerful and gentle; a timeless elegance that perfectly mirrors the boundless power of love she brings.”
“We are so in love,” Tori tells PEOPLE. “She is as precious as our hearts are full. Until you become a parent, you truly can’t understand how much you will love your child. She has added so much purpose to our already purpose-filled lives.”
source: people.com
