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Lily has finally arrived! The long 9 months (and 1 day) wait is over!
At 2:32am today (2008-07-07), Lily arrived in Lincoln County Hospital. She weighs 7 pounds 2 ounces and has lots of dark hair already!
Anneka’s labour went well, with only gas and air, along with an injection as pain relief. Once giving birth to Lily, [...]

We’re now entering week 37 of 40 week wait for Lily!
A fortnight ago, we decided to prepare the house, by cleaning the room to become the nursey; gathering together all the baby items; building the cotbed and pushchair - that were purchased way back in December! We’ve videod the whole process and will be posting [...]

Yesterday we visited the NEC in Birmingham for The Baby Show!
Nanny (Anneka’s Mum, Susan) had bought us tickets to go, so Anneka, Alice, Kim, Nanny and Me all set off to arrive just after the doors opened. Immediately we were confronted by a man trying out an adult-sized Fisher Price baby bouncer!
We spent a good [...]

For the fathers-to-be reading this, I can highly recommend Jon Smith’s The Bloke’s Guide to Pregnancy. At just £5.39 from Amazon, we decided to purchase it soon after learning about our news, as something for me to read whilst Anneka ploughed her way through her book.
At 254 pages, it isn’t too daunting and is very [...]

Today we went for a 4D ultra-sound scan, at Baby Debut in Taplow. The whole experience lasted 90 minutes and we were able to bring 8 guests too!
We’ve walked away with 7 6×4″ pictures, an A5 and an A4 picture. We’ve also got a DVD of Lily spending most of the time hidden away behind [...]