Birth Day - 30 March 2007

Our baby was born yesterday! What a day. It appears that labour is called "labour" for a very good set of reasons. Even then, "labour" has got to be one of the world's greatest understatements. Still, it was pretty much all over within 24 hours and we have a wonderful product at the end of it.

Our baby girl, Alice Jenny Grant was born at 7.12pm on 30 March 2007. She weighs 7lb and 10oz (the midwife measured her weight on a metric set of scales and then used conversion tables to give us the numbers. The question is "Do EU laws on metric measurements apply to babies as well as fruit and veg?").



Here's her very first picture.

She was a bit quiet when she was born. No great screaming cry; but she was moving loads and pinky in colour, so we're just assuming that we have a quiet baby. She didn't even have a cry when the midwife bunged her on the cold scales to be weighed. We're hoping that we've got the quiet, good sleeping baby that we ordered!



Stuart got to hold her for most of the first hour whilst Pauline was being sorted out with the midwife. He tried to use that time to convince Alice that maths is definitely the way to go (when she's sorting out career options). He also tried to teach her how to cry. He was pretty successful at that one! This pic is of Pauline holding Alice at last.

Just a couple of sleeping pictures to finish. Alice started to get tired around an hour after she was born. Stuart then was able to move her between rooms and along to the maternity ward in her handy wheely cot. A bit like a shopping trolley but with plastic sides. Pauline is, of course, still in hospital. She's not planning to stay there long though; she'll be home as soon as she's got the feeding sorted.



(Notice, no pink! P hates pink. We own no pink baby clothes and I doubt you will ever see Alice in pink. S says - until she's old enough to decide what to buy herself maybe?).

We're feeling very grateful to God today. Very grateful.