Anyway, I am delighted to announce that the Blue Kitten is now in the house, born at 9.06pm yesterday* and weighing 7 pounds exactly. Here's a photo:
She looks a bit gingery there but her hair is actually black.
You can see another pic of the Kitten in ET mode here.
Thanks to you all for your comments throughout yesterday, they were really very encouraging and helpful. Turns out that even the most straightforward birth (as thankfully this was) is a bit of an ordeal, eh?
* Which means she shares a birthday with both Dave and Delirium. Auspicious!
68 comments:
Amazing! Congratulations!! And well done - if that isn't a bit patronising from someone who doesn't even have a knitted uterus. I am in awe!
In anticipation of the caption competition you're surely to announce, can I offer:
"Bit of an ordeal? How do you think it felt for me..?"
oh she's too beautiful! just exquisite. and what a sagacious look. clever, clever you (both, of course!). hope you're feeling ok and not too shattered. look after yourself and don't do too much!!!!! (that's an order - and i'm, allegedly, an expert)
xxx
She is so gorgeous, WELL DONE! And yes, birth is a shocker, even when you think you know what you're in for. ('Life After Birth' by Kate Figes is a vg book if you have any reading energy in the next few weeks... stupidly I read it BEFORE my first and was terrified!)
But ooooh newborn babies are just so amazing and beautiful. Really pleased for you all, very well done, hope you are being waited on hand and foot, and showered with gifts and love now.
Take care
xxx
*blubs - but in a good way*
Crates of hugs and kisses are already making their way down
the M5.
Ooh ooh, welcome Blue Kitten! It gets better, I promise. (That was directed at Kitten, not mum. I wouldn't know about life after birth from mum's point of view. Yet.)
I greatly enjoyed the live blogging, btw.
she's beautiful. congratulations, and i hope you are both very proud.
have you named her yet?
And when does she get her own blog?
She's gorgeous! Congratulations to you all and welcome to the world Eliza...
xxx
(Complete awe and respect to you also, for giving birth yesterday and blogging the next!)
*melts*
Awww! Congratulations to the new Patroclus-Bluecat family; she is beautiful. Hope that you're managing to get some rest after all your hard work yesterday (no-one evers warns you properly about that, do they?!)
She's so beautiful... Congratulations!
xxx
What a marvellous sight on a grey and drizzly Scottish morn. I'm going to visit a very happy great grandmother later. You know she'll live for another 100 years now ...
She's really beautiful. Congratulations! Being a parent is brilliant (most of the time!). Have fun, the three of you.
!!!!
congratulations, she is lovely!!!!
(sorry about the exclamation marks!!! i don't normally do that!!!)
Welcome to your baby!
Wow! cute kid! Congratulations to you all.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Whosa little cutie then?
She looks really cute. Congratulations again. Enjoy the precious times while she's so tiny.xx
Congratulations from Team Geoff & Betty.
Congratulations! I congratulated you both over on BC's blog, but I suspect that you did slightly more of the work. What with doing the whole pregnancy thing, and all that. Hooray! Huzzah! And similar words!
Congratulations, she is a real beauty (but you knew that). Hope you are being brought tea and hobnobs on the hour. Enjoy the bonding.Wait until you find all the cool baby stuff on t' interweb.
How lovely - well done you and congratulations to you all!
PS She's got a really "what on earth have I let myself in for?!?" look on her face here.
Congratumalations! This is so brilliant, and she's beautiful. Ooh, I'm all happy and gooey now. Damn you both for ruining my attempts at cynicism!
Ahem. Good on yer, chums.
Aww - congratulations. What a pretty little girl!
ahhhhhh well done you!
Congratulations! What a lil' lovely - and what a beautiful story to follow. Ta for sharing :)
Awww... Congratulations to the both of you! And to Miss Kitten, for arriving just in time.
Nipping in from work ILLEGALLY to say awwwww! She is very cute. Very well done you two, wish you lots of happiness xxx
Congratulations to all, and what a beatiful baby. Almost makes me wish Mrs D and I hadn't stuck at two...almost.
Be firm, Henry Dandelion. Only lunatics have more than 2 children. I should know - I've got 3 of the buggers....
Aw, man. Listen to us. I cannot think of a single clever thing to say. She's darling, and congratulations!
I am incredibly excited about this, considering I don't actually know either of you. Congratulations! She's incredibly cute.
Congratulations.. She is beautiful and looks as if she is about to say something very intelligent.
As for the ordeal, well yes! But she's clearly worth it!
huge congratulations! beautiful!!!
Congratulations! She is absolutely gorgeous. My brother was an ugly fella when he was born...anyway *lots of cute baby noises* Good luck to all three of you, for some interesting years to come!
Yes, congratulations on introducing us all to a new blog reader (and also to prompting realdoc to comment).
Well done. Is she taller than you yet?
I can't think of anything original to say, so...
Congratulations!!!
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
*continues incoherently*
Wowee! Congratulations! She's gorgeous!
Oooooh congratulations!!! Bet you're glad that part's over, and you're home and can get settled... Y ella es muy guapa!
Crikey, thanks everyone! Blue Kitten is doing just fine and already displays an uncanny talent for sucking textiles and staring at the wall, often at the same time.
As the proud inseminator of four, I congratulate you on your fine effort.
*presses playbutton to start mandatory bkgd music:
Stevie Wonder's Isn't She Lovely
Savour every moment, it goes by awfully fast...well, except for this first bit.
Aww, kitten is adorable! I'm soooo pleased for you both. Very impressed at the blog dedicattion too! I can't believe everything has turned out so lovely. I'm so pleased for you.
lovely! now the real fun begins, enjoy, and fogive yourself everything!
Congratulations! She's gorgeous. As we would expect, of course.
oh what a darling little doll. and I am somewhat of a baby connoisseur, really. congrats!
Gingery, green, blue...however she does her hair she's just gorgeous.
Is that her hand she's eating, or her foot?
Congratulations!
many congratulations
:-)
Slightly belated congratulations! She looks absolutely adorable.
delores x
Congratulations. :)
Be prepared for friends who were a bit meh about small children to become completely entranced by yours. I know. I was that "person who was a bit meh".
Congratulations to you and James, and hello Blue Kitten, welcome to Earth.
Aside from being very cute, she looks as though she's just discovered a delicious bit of gossip in that photo.
Aaaaaaahhh...she is gorgeous and so alert! Well done and hope you aren't feeling too exhausted. XX
Congratulations - that's a very photogenic Blue Kitten you've got. Would like to add my 'here, here' to loganoc's sentiments.
All my friends at work are leaning over my shoulder as I type, all cooing...."Oh, what a beautiful baby"
I completely agree! Congratulations to both of you.
Belatedly (well, I was in Ireland celebrating my birthday [and now I can't forget the Kitten's]) many congratulations.
Awe! Fantastic. *goes broody*
Awww adorable. I'm broody too now. Congrats! x
A million congratulations to all three of you!
bit late to the party, sorry, but hearty congrats, that's an extremely cute Blue Kitten. Happiness to all concerned.
Congratulations! Take as many photos as you can now to show to unsuitable potential partners she'll bring home in a few years time.
I am screening all descriptions of birth from wifey...
I am sitting here with a real kitten in my lap (my next door neighbour's) and thinking for the first time in my life that a human kitten might not be a bad idea. One day. For me I mean. Fantastic idea for you obviously. What I'm saying is... I want one! Many hearty congratulations to all of you.
Blimey, thank you everyone, very much.
Very very very late, but congratulations - she's lovely.
Congratulations! She's adorable. (Better late than never, eh.)
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