Bump Update: Hello World!

Baby Lucas says hello to his many uncles, aunties, cousins and daddy n mommy's friends!

He was born on 7th January 2011, 11.28pm at Bronovo Hospital in The Hague, Netherlands.  It was a normal delivery and he weighed 3kg exactly.  He was induced at full term + 1 day.

This is his favourite kangaroo impersonation :)

First bath in the good hands of Santa, his Kraamzorg nurse.

Nice and happy after the bath.

Nice and happy after a meal.

Nice and happy after the xxxth diaper change.

Some shots at Bronovo Hospital:

The spacious and well-equipped delivery suite.

The poor little guy all hooked up in the incubator.  He had a fever and very high heart rate at birth.  Thankfully he recovered very quickly.

Being fed formula milk from a cup.

 Many thanks for all your thoughts, prayers and well wishes!  We truly appreciate them.  We will post more photos in the coming weeks.  Baby Lucas is looking forward to meeting all of you personally!

Bump Update and Drive DE: Black Forest

Hi, we're going to the hospital tomorrow to be induced.  Hopefully will have happy news to share with you guys in a couple of days :)

Meanwhile, here are some photos from our 6 hour road trip to Baden-Baden/Black Forest back in October 2010!  We stayed at a scenic little village near Neuweier, about 10 minutes drive from Baden-Baden.  From there, we visited Colmar at the French border and also drove around the upper Black Forest region - it was a lovely short break to enjoy the autumn colours.

View from Hotel Rebenhof carpark

Little Venice in Colmar

Triberg, cuckoo clock capital of Germany

More photos at our picasaweb link: http://picasaweb.google.com/110776657145071773017/BlackForest2010#

Bum(p) size - updated

I shall embarrass myself further and post some updated pics of the bum(p).  Taken last week at 36 weeks, after a 3 course dinner, although I don't think the dinner made any difference to the size :)

Bum(p) Size

Ok, for those who requested, here are some bump shots at end Oct, 30 weeks :)

Hotel Rebenhof, Baden-Baden



With Yin Hui outside Maurithuis, Den Haag



Other bump-related stuff - testing blood sugar level before my breakfast:

Thankfully, the readings were normal during the 2 weeks monitoring period.