Baby Scoggins

Anne and Samuel came home on Monday evening, after being discharged from hospital at around 5.30pm.

Since then Samuel has been settling in to his new surroundings, and is doing very well. We're expecting a visit from the local Health Visitor tomorrow, but everything seems fine at the moment, to us at least!

Over the weekend whilst in hospital just about all of both our families came to visit, and were all very taken with Sam. Today (our first day at home) my younger brother came up to visit from Southampton, and was soon put to work with a bottle!

...to Samuel Joshua Scoggins!

Born at 2.14pm today, Friday 20 January 2006.

Birth weight 7lbs 3oz (3.27 kg).

After a bit of a wait (we were up at 4am, and at the hospital for 7am), Anne finally went down to the anaesthetic room at around midday. It took two goes to get her epidural to take, but eventually the surgeons kicked off, and before long we had this little treasure to hold! I was very emotional when the midwife gave him to me to hold, I don't mind saying. An experience like nothing else.

Mum is currently recovering well, and will probably spend 3-5 days in hospital. Little Samuel is a real cutie, and was extremely well behaved while being prodded and poked all afternoon by various medical staff.

More news and pictures will no doubt be posted soon. Right, I'm off to get some sleep myself, before heading back to the hospital tomorrow.

...and counting.

Yesterday we went to our hospital in London for the last set of tests/appointments with the obstetrics team before The Big Day on Friday. Everything was fine with Anne and the baby, and the obstetrician took us through what will happen on Friday in great detail, which was very reassuring.

We have to be at the hospital for 7am on Friday morning! That means catching the train into London at 6am! Ah well, we probably won't be able to sleep anyway. Anne will be staying in hospital for anything between 3 and 5 days, while I commute up to visit, along with family and probably some friends.

Anne is still suffering a bit with the cold and cough that I had all last week. She had a bad few days over the weekend but seems to be getting a little better. The doctors didn't seem too worried about it, and told her to take paracetomol or Lemsip to help the symptoms when she needed to. Unfortunately she's not getting a lot of quality sleep at night at the moment, but I guess we'll both be suffering from that in a few days time!

Only five days to go! Five days until we get to meet our little boy.

This last week has not been much fun. I have been off work with a chest infection, which developed from a heavy cold. Unfortunately Anne has now gone down with the cold, and also has a nasty cough. I have been given antibiotics to fight the infection, but Anne won't be allowed them at the moment. She's coping OK but not enjoying it very much.

On the bright side Anne had her last scan on Friday afternoon. All seems to be well - the estimated weight of our little one is already 7.5 lbs! Blimey. He's pretty tall as well, which isn't much of a surprise really. Anne's got her last ante-natal appointment at the hospital on Monday morning, when we'll hopefully be given all the information for the Big Day on Friday. So this is our last weekend without any kids. Bit of a shame that we're both tucked up in front of the telly with lemsips and boxes of tissues, but it can't be helped.