James Adam Thorp

Given that the news is mostly out through twitter/facebook, I thought I would put some extra information here as a bonus to my blog readers

Heather went in for a checkup yesterday evening, and we got home at 1900, at which point she had her first contractions, and they continued sporadically from then. At around 0030 they were consistent enough, and frequent enough, that it was time to head out. We arrived at the Southern General at around 0050.

The labour was actually pretty quick, and drugless apart from gas and air this time. At 0240 Jamie popped out and had some skintime with Mummy. He weighed in at exactly 9lbs, which is 1lb 13oz heavier than Mira was! He fed a bit and then I got my first hold, and then he slept for a good while, during which the midwives did all the necessary cleaning up and paperwork and stuff.

I hung around until after they had bathed Jamie and Heather had a shower, and then headed home for about 0600. Jackie had been staying over for Mira (thanks Jackie!) and so I got 90 minutes sleep and she handled getting Mira up and breakfast before I took over. The rest of the day has been a whirlwind of texting, emailing, phoning and taking Mira to visit her new baby brother.

mrBen