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  • 28-11-2007 9:54am
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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭


    my wife has just gone in to hospital for the latest addition to the shrapnel family!!!! if all goes well time of arrival- mid afternoon!!!i'm at work till lunchtime, then off to have a baby!!! very nervous and excited at the moment- woohoo:D


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    silja
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭silja


    I wonder how much work you are getting done right now? ;)
    Good luck and let us know how everything is going when you have a moment!


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    *Page*
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    good luck!!


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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    thanks girls. will update tonight in any event if i'm in any kind of state to do so:p. i'm probably more nervous than her at the moment!!


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    RIRI
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭RIRI


    Exciting news!
    Best of luck to all
    Don't forget to post pics


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    dame
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    Best of luck!!!


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    6th
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    Good luck to you & Mrs. Shrapnel!


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    Jack Vegas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭Jack Vegas


    Congratulations brah.


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    lucyburn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭lucyburn


    That's great news, I'm delighted for you and your partner/wife.
    Congratulations.


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    deisemum
    Registered Users Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭deisemum


    Good luck


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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    thanks guys for all your wishes, just got home. Left them to bond and feed and sleep etc. all went well, and am the proud father of another beautiful baby boy. 7pounds and 15. i'll write up more later or tomorrow as i'm still a bit of a happy wreck at the moment.

    2072008372_f4f8eace6a.jpg


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    Nevyn
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    Congratulations.


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    deisemum
    Registered Users Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭deisemum


    Congratulations, doesn't he look contented and happy out


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    nesf
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    Congratulations. :)


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    beaushalloe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭beaushalloe


    well done!
    thats the most deadly pic ive ever seen of a newborn. wont he be proud to see that on his 21st birthday!


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    dame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭dame


    Congrats! Gorgeous!


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    Dizzyblonde
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    Congratulations, he's beautiful.


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    Lizzykins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    What a little dote! Congrats to you all and may all your troubles be little ones!


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    RIRI
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭RIRI


    Congratulations!
    Little dote - he'd nearly make you broody!


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    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Congratulations, Shrapnel. He's gorgeous!


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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    thanks everyone!!! back at work today unfortunately (i'll take time off when both baby and mum are back home), but printed a few photos of him to keep me company and show him off.:p.

    i have to say though it was very different the second time round. much easier physically for my wife as it happened very simply and quickly, litterally just half an hour of pushing, but emotionally very draining as the closer it gets the more nervous you are something might go wrong. A friend of ours had quite recently had a baby who had died during child birth and i think that was playing heavily in our minds, so we were so so relieved when we had a healthy little one in our arms. The miracle of birth was still as intense this time round though as i remembered it, and still managed to take my breath away and, even prepared and rested as i was, it still made me shed a tear when i saw my son on the bed take his first breath and announce his arrival and anger at being treated in such a rude and uncouth way.

    it all seems so far away already sitting back here at my desk just like any other day.


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    NextSteps
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    Marvellous photo. Congratulations!
    [edit: I meant congratulations on the birth, not on taking a good photo!]


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    squire1
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    Great picture. Congrats. Enjoy the rollercoaster ride of the next three months.:D


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    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    shrapnel222 wrote: »
    A friend of ours had quite recently had a baby who had died during child birth and i think that was playing heavily in our minds
    I can't believe stillbirths still happen, with all the technology they have nowadays. My first baby was nearly a stillbirth. His heartbeat started getting lower and lower then got dangerously low. Luckily I'd had an epidural so it was very easily topped up and I had an emergency section within minutes. He was grey and lifeless when taken out, but after a little work on him he started to cry - relief! He's now a strapping, v.energetic almost 7-year-old.


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    Nevyn
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    They happen and a still birth is not just a child dying during the birthing process.
    I know of two couples in the last year who were with in 10 days of their due day and the baby just died in the womb.
    There was just no movement and when they were examined there was no fetal heartbeat.
    Labour had to be induced and the mother had to give birth.
    Still born literally means still with no sign of life at birth.

    http://www.isands.ie/


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    BrianCalgary
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    Wow seeing that picture sure brought back memories. As the proud dad of three great teenagers a part of me is really looking forward to being a grandpa so I can hang out with a little one again.

    (and then hand it back:D)

    Blessings on all of you.


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    Cathmandooo
    Registered Users Posts: 17,324 ✭✭✭✭Cathmandooo


    Oh congratulations he's absolutely gorgeous! What a fantastic picture too. Best of luck with him :D


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    crosstownk
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    Congratulations! Well done :)
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    #29
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    They happen and a still birth is not just a child dying during the birthing process.
    I know of two couples in the last year who were with in 10 days of their due day and the baby just died in the womb.
    There was just no movement and when they were examined there was no fetal heartbeat.
    Labour had to be induced and the mother had to give birth.
    Still born literally means still with no sign of life at birth.

    http://www.isands.ie/
    That's just horrific.


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    embee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭embee


    Belated congratulations from me - he is just beautiful.


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