I have a new nephew, born at 3.30pm yesterday, weighing 3.4 kg, 54cm long and a whopping 36cm head*! (Yes, the hat should still fit – I made it nice and stretchy). My sister was an absolute trooper, and my BIL has that grin that meets in the back of his head.
Mother and baby are both doing very well.
*for Amy, Becky, Regenia et al, that translates to 7.5lb, 21″ and 14″ respectively.
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Congratulations to your sister and BIL. With one kid at 35cm and two with 37cm heads I commiserate!
Go, Mama! Wouldn’t it figure that the one kid I had non-surgically had the hugest head? I can’t, at the moment, find where I wrote it down, but it was big. The other two, oh, the sweetest LITTLE heads. Of course!
Congratulations to everyone!!
Oh, yes – very VERY glad I had both of mine by c-section! (and they both had such pretty heads – every other baby on the ward was a total cone-head!)
Happy birthday Eggplant! Welcome to earth!
(I’d watch out for your Auntie though, she’s a bit strange! LOL!)
Congrats all round!
LOL… I’m pretty sure all the kids get the “Don’t make any sudden movements around Auntie Kate” talk before I come to visit. I am generally considered by my nearest and dearest to be barking mad. After all, who in their right mind carries a half-knit sock around in her purse?
Mind you, none of them knock back the hand-knits come Christmas-time…
It is proof of how schizophrenic we are about measurements here that I know exactly what a 36cm head is. My office measures weight in pounds and height in inches but head circumferences are in cm. I have no explanation of why this should be. Anyway, yay for a healthy new baby!!
You also measure cervical dilation in centimeters, don’t you? Wouldn’t that be the reason – if mummy is dilated 10cm, but baby’s head is 14″ in circumference (to use recent events as an example), that doesn’t sound like as much of a feat as it really is. Just a thought. 🙂
Congratulations to all!