It's a girl!
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On Friday, the 28th November 1997 at 5:40pm "Baby" was born to Mimmie, Cornelia and the rest of the world. We have a lot of cool stories to tell about the whole story starting at 11pm on Thursday night went Mimmie started her labour, but I'll get to that once things quieten down at work.

For now I just have to say that it was the most incredible experience going through the labour and birth with Mimmie. As you may see from the pic, I looked a little worse for wear after about 48 hours without sleep (long labour) and Mimmie was obviously even more exhausted.

It is now Thursday 4 December and we're still undecided as to a name for her, so she may just end with "Baby - formally known as ? (Questionmark)".

She had to go in to the Intensive Care Unit soon after birth, as she stopped breathing for a little while, due to a virus in her lungs. But she recovered very quickly and is fine now. These are the first pictures I could get developed, so they aren't that cool - but many others will be added.

She is definitely "above average cute", in fact down right adorable! In fact Tracey (Commander & Chief of the Fashion Police) wrote in her visitors' book: "Here's my card - call me when you're 18". She is very tall, has loads of hair that's curling already.

She does her two "vampire mommies" proud, as she sucks like a maniac. She sucks so hard that she gives Mimmie blood blister "love bites" while breast feeding. I've already done her whole birth chart and will post it once I get a chance. Basically she's Sagittarian with Gemini rising. Mimmie says that, from the rest of the chart it looks like she's going to be a real little replica of me. Scary stuff hey.

You certainly know that life is a changin' when you're not up at 2am because you're partying - but feeding a hungry little mouth, winding mutant, ninja burps and cleaning little bums. And you know what? It's cool. I've discovered the miracle stress treatment I've been searching for. There's nothing like have that little one in your arms. Everything disappears around you; nothing else intrudes on that bubble she creates around you. She sucks you into her peaceful world.

To be continued....

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