Three weeks late to enter the world, Nyilah Daise Tzabari arrived with an accelerated plan to make up for lost time and get things done.
Lifting her head and scooting across her cot at only three days old, Nyilah — a super baby — is developing unusually fast, leaving her first‑time mom and dad stunned.
Still in the hospital, baby Nyilah was caught on camera lifting her head and crawling in her cot.
She was not even three days old.
“The video was taken when Nyilah wasn’t even a full three days old. She was two and a half days old,” said first‑time mom Samantha Mitchell of White Oak, PA, who added that her wonder baby makes her feel like “she’s never had a newborn.”
Speaking with Kennedy News (via the New York Post), the 34‑year‑old mom said, “I’ve babysat most of my life and have over 20 years’ experience with children, and I’ve never seen anything like this before.” She continued, “I guess I’ve never been around many babies at three days old, so there are a lot of nuances in it, but I have never seen a baby like this ever.”
In the TikTok video, when Nyilah uses her tiny arms to prop herself up and crawl, you can hear Samantha’s mom say, “no fricken way,” while Samantha, sounding completely shocked, says, “Oh my gosh. Mom! She’s crawling! Mom!… how does that even move?”
Responding to her baby’s cooing, Samantha says, “Well, that’s what happens when you spend too much time in mommy’s belly.”
Born to parents Samantha and her fiancé, Ofer Tzabari, Nyilah arrived three weeks late. She was born on February 27, 2023, at 7 lbs 6 oz and went viral when Samantha filmed her unexpected movements to prove to family and friends that her baby was already crawling.
“My mother was the only other person in the room when it happened, and she told me to record it,” Samantha said. “No one would have believed me otherwise. My fiancé wasn’t in the room, and I know if I didn’t get it on film, he would not have believed me… (The video shows) the first time I saw her crawl, and I was in complete shock… The way she lifted her head too and was babbling left me in complete shock,” she added. The video, Samantha’s first on TikTok, has 57.5 million views.
Fans were equally amazed by Nyilah’s incredible strength, leaving comments like, “These new babies are different — they come out crawling and be walking at 1 month old, talking at 3 months, and getting jobs at 2 yrs old.”
Another user joked, “I would run out without the baby,” while someone else wrote, “Rumor has it she left on a plane a day later to live life.”
According to Healthline, most babies start to creep or crawl around six to 12 months. “And for many of them, the crawling stage doesn’t last long — once they get a taste of independence, they start pulling up and cruising on the way to walking.”
“Oh momma! You better get home and baby proof! That little is already on the move!!” one user warned, urging Samantha to prepare for her fast‑developing newborn.
“Sometimes I laugh and just think I wish she could be a baby,” Samantha said.
It seems like Nyilah is on the fast track to growing up. At only 18 days, she was rolling from her belly to her back; at one month old, she was smiling at her mom; at two months, she was rolling from her back to her belly; and at three months, she was slugging her mom with her powerful arms.
In an adorable video posted June 6, Samantha gets a mitten‑covered fist to the face and, laughing, says, “Oh, you punched mommy.”
Along with testing her arm strength, Nyilah is already standing with support, and her mom predicts it won’t be long before she starts walking.
“Without a doubt, she will start walking soon. She stands at the moment. She puts so much weight on her legs. We’re not trying to make her stand. She just refuses to buckle her knees and sit down,” Samantha said. “She isn’t standing on her own yet, but she stands holding us and is always trying to stand.”
Samantha also shares that Nyilah is so strong she no longer needs her head and neck supported.
“I’m shocked every day by her. She tries to push herself out of her little chair and bouncer when we put her in it too… She is a very alert baby and has been since she was born. From day one her strength was very shocking to us,” the mom said. Nyilah is turning out to be very chatty. At seven weeks, she tried to have a conversation, mimicking words spoken by her mom and dad, Ofer.
“We always say ‘I love you’ to her, and she seemed to be trying to repeat it to us and trying to say it. We couldn’t believe it. It is more like babbling, but she is definitely trying to copy us,” Samantha said. “If she makes a noise and we laugh, she will keep making the noise because she knows we’ll react. She’s a very clever baby.”
Nyilah is also a very happy baby.
“She is such a smiley, happy baby and laughs all the time. The second you smile at her, she starts smiling and laughing back at us. She is such a happy baby, and I hope her videos make everyone happy.” Tzabari added, “For me, it was the first time I’ve been with a newborn, and I thought her actions were normal until people began to tell me they weren’t… I thought this was how babies were, but actually her actions aren’t average for a baby of her age.”
Nyilah is such an adorable addition to the growing family of Samantha Mitchell and Ofer Tzabari. We hope their home is well equipped to handle the quickly growing baby, who will no doubt be very curious once she starts walking. We can’t wait to see what Nyilah does next. Congratulations to the parents of the super baby!
