Kendal Oliver Hands...

We finally gave birth to our beautiful baby, Kendal Oliver Hands at 12:20 a.m on 16.6.05, weighing in at 7lbs exactly. The final stages were quite traumatic for the little fella, he was suffering from the after effects of my Gestational Diabetes, and his heart rate and breathing were pretty worrying. He was taken straight into the Special Care Unit, we didn't get to see him till a few hours later, when he was wired up to all kinds of buzzers and bells.

We're at home now, all three of us exhausted, Kendal is still not feeding properly by himself, (he won't latch on at all) but I'm managing to express enough milk to feed him with, (using a specially designed cup instead of a bottle).

I haven't had a chance to look at any emails yet, so apologise for not responding to anyone, I'm sure you'll understand. We've got to stay at home for a couple of days now, waiting for the midwife etc to come and check up on us, I lost a lot of blood during labour, so am still a bit shaky on my feet, but hope to be up and about properly toute suite.