Doing the proud dad bit, more photos up in the Photo Album! I went to Blackburn today to pick up Jon too. Jen and Tim have been great and he had a good time with them which was a relief.

Georgina gave birth to Ben at 12:41 this afternoon. He weighed in at 7lbs 5.5oz and is wonderful!

The whole induction thing took ages. First of all there were no beds and so whilst we got to the hospital at 9:15ish Monday morning, Georgina’s induction didn’t start until gone 5pm. The induction phase then took all night until about 8:30am this morning when she was dilated enough to go to the delivery room. Things progressed much faster then with the aid of a wonderful anesthetist who’s epidural worked “just right”. Then Ben was born! To round off a great delivery, we were allowed to leave with Ben the same day!

The midwifes and staff at Worcester Royal were wonderful and made the whole experience remarkably stress-free. I cannot say how great it was to have such wonderful people compared to Jon’s birth. In particular, Nicky, the midwife who was present during the labour and birth gave us 100% of her time and reassurance.

Georgina and I have’t slept since 5:30ish Monday morning (expect for a 1hour cat nap!) and we are absolutely knackered.

Today is inducement day for Georgina and so far it hasn’t gone smoothly. Although the appointment has been booked for a while, we were told to phone up at 7 to ensure that they could take us in at 8. Guess what? We phone at 7 and get told that they are “too busy” and to phone again at 9.

*sigh*

Has all that new money actually made a difference to anyone who actually uses the NHS?

Crystal Palace made it into the play offs!

Sorted out toys for Ben today. Jon was a little bemused seeing his old toys coming out and us calling them “Ben’s new toys”. Poor mite. Fairly typical Saturday really with not a lot done.

Planning permission for the extension arrived today… just need to get some quotes and find some money for it!

Today is Jon’s 3rd birthday and he was most excited at the prospect of opening more presents :) He got a Thomas train set from us, a tricyle from his Nana (opened on Sunday due to good weather!), an artists set from Grandma and Granddad and a toolbox with a jigsaw from Jenni, Tim, Leah and Jack.

Ross showed his usual extremely good empathy with Jon and got him a cuddly Cthulhu which Jon is now insisting on taking with him everywhere he goes in the house!

Note to anyone reading this blog: I don’t actually want random adverts in my comments. Especially not in a different language to English…

Not the best day at work: demotivated after a three day weekend which wasn’t helped by knowing that I’ve a fortnight off after Friday :)