Kirsty and Craig come to visit

Kirsty and Craig came to visit with little Billy :)

"Aunties" Andrew and Quan come to visit

"Auntie" Andrew and his girlfriend Quan came to visit us. We were having a picnic with our friends in the park.

Grampy and Grandma come to visit

Bella's Grampy and Grandma came to visit for the day.

Auntie Emma

Auntie Emma arrived from Bude to see baby Bella for the first time :)

Wetting the baby's head

After a lovely day chilling out at home...

...Daddy took Bella to the pub to meet Richard, Karla (pictured), Mike and Mike :)

Teddy

Isabella's Teddy arrived from America on Thursday. Thanks Auntie Muriel :)

As did her first canoe club uniform! Thanks Rob and Bryony xx

Isabella's First Photoshoot

Our good friend Gaby came round for dinner and took some lovely photos. Thanks again Gaby :)

Isabella's Firsts

Isabella has been very busy. She's already had her first checkup, first trip into town, first bath and been registered. Busy, busy! :)

1st Visitors

Little baby Bella has been very popular. Thanks to everyone that came round to see us and look forward to seeing the rest of you very soon :)

1st Photo Album

Our baby Bella's first photo album (click on the photo).

Isabella Niamh

Our beautiful baby girl was born at home at 01:50 on Saturday 4th June 2011, weighing in at 9lbs. She and mum are both fit and healthy and doing well. Sorry we're a bit late posting here as we've been a bit busy! More pictures to follow :)

Waters Have Broken

After a couple of days of mild, infrequent twinges we were starting to worry that things weren't going to happen for a while. Our visit to the midwife yesterday confirmed that Mum-to-be was already 2cm dilated, so that was reassuring. We've spent today trying to stay active to help things along. We went for a nice walk down in Snuff Mills down by the River Frome and had lunch at Beese's Tea Rooms.

We were just considering what to do about some dinner when woosh! Birthing pool is now inflated and filling and we're busy preparing downstairs whilst Mum-to-be chills out upstairs.

We'll keep you posted! :)

Ready for birth

We may, or may not, be getting ready to have a baby.

40 Weeks

So, here we are. 40 weeks. Full term. Wife ready to pop. Some mild tightenings this evening, but hardly noticeable. Ready, set, wait.....

.....apparently the French calculate full term to 41 weeks. Bloody French.