The stork has arrived

Finny was born the morning of 18 June just before 7 am. He was born at home in a birthpool in the sunroom just after dawn after a speedy 2 hr 52 minute labour - though if you tack on the 2 weeks worth of prelabour it brings the entire event out to more like 14 days :)

As far as the details go:

Griffynn Riley Bogle
Born: 6:52 am on 18 June 2008
Weight: 4.380 KG / 9.6 LB
Head: 37 CM
Length: 55 CM

[Note: at this point we're still deciding on how Griffynn is going to be spelt, so this may not be the final version :) The nickname of Finny has well and truly stuck (though the spelling of that may change too).]

Maddie awoke around 5 am and was present for the entire thing. She was a dedicated and helpful member of the birth team who helped cut the cord and held her baby brother only minutes after birth. She was quite excited about the experience overall and has been singing songs to him and giving him kisses constantly since then and he seems to find her voice really soothing.

Since then Fynn has been having a bit of trouble getting turned around to normal night-time sleeping. That's not really surprising really - there was no bedtime and no curfew in utero, so we expect it to be a while before anything resembling a normal sleep routine emerges.

Take last night for example...