I do not know for the life of me, why people make the hand and foot prints. Tell all the young parents to do this stuff just after birth. Arielle was awake and she did not like this process at all. The prints are framed and in the babies room. They turned out fine but I will never forget the night we just had to take the prints from baby. Oh, we discovered Arielle has a sense of what she does not like and that she is willful and strong.