start taping top gear now. they'll be in invaluable resource for classic car purchasing in future years.

"son... i wish i knew someone who could find me a db9..."

Mazel tov to you all! So good to hear it's ended on such a fine note. :)

I shall avoid any mustard-like food groups until Bob is out of nappies.

You can relax, you don't need to wait til he's out of nappies – just til he starts on (semi-)solids. After that the colour & texture will no longer resemble mustard, and will take any number of other…

In no particular order:

Haydn:

Congratulations on winning the naming competition. We do, in fact, refer to him as Bob-the-baby (which is, obviously, a shortened form of Bob-ther-baby).

**Russell…

I sat next to my wife during the 16 hours of the first labour and the 8 hours and caesarian of the second.

Ha. I did thirty-eight hours the first time round. So the second time, we knew how this thing went. Ended up being vastly unprepared because of all…

And hooray for the nice man from Vodaphone!

Paul would be a nice man wherever he worked ...

Robert's a great name, it'll fit him for anything from All Black to Prime Minister. He owes you a totally worry-and-angst free childhood and teenagerdom now, he's used up all his parental anxiety credits.

And hooray for the nice…

I'm very sure she would have appreciated a bit more speed.

Well, true, which is why it was always more of a secret irritation :), because there were always other peoples labour horror stories to contend with, and the 'mine only took 90 minutes and there were no real problems'…

Afterwards, other midwives trooped in to say 'you're done already?' and 'hasn't she got a small head'. Never has the urge to punch someone in the face been so solidly combined with the inability to do so.

Heh – we (ahem – read: Pip) also tended towards short labours involving…

Hadyn: I'm guessing he's gonna end up "BbbobbB" a la Blackadder. Seems to happen to all of us at some stage.

And there I was valiantly resisting any 'it's short for Kate' comments...

My daughter was a precipitate labour, I nearly had her in the corridor at Women's. She was…

Cheers,
Robert (who doesn't even remember entering the "name the baby" competition)
Random takes on previous responses:
Hadyn: I'm guessing he's gonna end up "BbbobbB" a la Blackadder.…

I am glad to see not much has changed in 24 years. when our third child was born I told the midwife that, Sue my wife, had quick deliveries mostly within the first two having taken 4.5 and 3 hours.

She…

some close friends of ours,

Not to mention Ian & Jackie on the front page of the Dompost having to pull the car over beside the fowler centre, on their way to the maternity ward, to give birth to a little boy.

for me the BPU (button pushing urge) came with the new Auckland hospital lifts, which have an override button for very-pregnant-mothers-who-might-not-make-it-to-the-ward-otherwise.

Heh – on that note Paul, some close friends of ours, who were prone to extremely quick labours, had their second child in the lift of the Randwick hospital…

We never got to push the emergency button but I wasn't too worried – for me the BPU (button pushing urge) came with the new Auckland hospital lifts, which have an override button for very-pregnant-mothers-who-might-not-make-it-to-the-ward-otherwise. It even had a flap over it…

The fourth sign was an exciting package from Paul Brislen at Vodafone.

A public low cost/no cost wireless network (& perhaps the odd wireless laptop) for the wards in the public hospitals would be a great way for patients & their families…

Yeah – congrats to the whole family, and especially to Mum – aint nothing quite like seeing your kids being born (err, except for maybe being the one to actually do the hard work :)

And I know which one I prefer ...

Hugs!

Judi

Now the main concern is will the young man be a Rob or a Bob? Or maybe even a Robby or Bobby?

ps. I have never heard of "lux", so figured it was one of the South Island words like "crib".

When I feel confident about supplying a bright orange cheese with blue mould in it to a nursing mother, I will deliver the cheese.

And she will inhale it. I think listeria is only a worry during pregnancy; after that it's open slather.…

Now, this:

The first sign was Jennifer's dream (recounted to me by telephone early Friday morning) that Russell Brown had sent her a big parcel of cheese. According to Jennifer, the cheese was:…

I've often wondered if hospitals would have interwebs, so the news that Mr Brislen and Vodafone provided such a basic human requirement gratis, well, that warmed the cockles of me heart. Hooray for…

By the way, who won the naming competition? I don't remember Robert being on the list of submissions. Which is not to say Robert isn't a fabulous name, it is, of course, but I am still hoping for Nonu somewhere in…

I never knew 'lux' was a verb, more a (trademarked) noun. If someone wants to be paid for soaping Venetians, someone should take them to the Human Rights Commission for discrimination.