Grog's thread reminded me that I should probably make the customary new baby thread now that I finally have had a chance to sit down and take a breath :D

So wifey started getting what at the time was either "slight contractions or nothing" about midday on friday and they gradually increased to somewhat decent (2 in 10mins) at about 5:30pm - given that this is number 2 in the roster we opted to stick around home and just come up on when she was closer to 3 in 10 at the advise of the chicks in birth suite.

So at about 9:30 that night we mosey onto the hospital - with the betrothed handling the contractions like a champ. Turns out she is like 4cm dilated and things are going swimmingly! At about midnight they paged the anesthesiologist/drug guy for the epidural and broke her waters.

This as it would turn out is where things got a lil pear shaped. They were expecting that breaking her water would increase the contractions in frequency and strength, what they weren't expecting was that she'd go fully sick and go from 6 - 10 cm in the hour. So by the time the dude got there to jab a needle in her back she was already well into it. Mad props to the dude for trying - he looked more like a bomb defuser than a doctor - trying to jab a needle beside someones spine can't be too much fun when you've only got something like a 2 minute window.

So no epidural - time to go stag. Spend the next couple of hours not decending and by 3:30am both wife and I are starting to get pretty worried. For those that have heard my epic oliver tale (back to back/emergency c-sect) - things seem to be going down the same path. At this point I can see the top of his head and we're sooo on the home stretch but wifey is starting to really run out of gusto. So in the end they pop a lil vacum on his head and out he pops at 3:55am with a pretty wonky looking head.

I give you Benjamin Thomas Ellis born Saturday 12th Dec @ 3:55am weighing in at 4.29kgs/roughly 9.5 pounds 4cm taller than his older brother was at 55cm.

http://leventh.com/Ben Day 4 cot.jpg

Good work!
Your sperm made an excellent offspring.

ps. should of named him after a character in street fighter :P

nawww he's cute.

OMG someone with normal name....grats

Benjamin? Why not go for a normal name like "Ryu".

Of course we've nicknamed him yoshimitsu

Your sperm made an excellent offspring.

Not once but twice! Nothing says my junk works and I totally have sex with chicks than kids!

GW on procreating! Enjoy filling out your forms!

well done mate, and consider yourself in the upper half of society by giving the kid a go in life by giving him a real name.

Grats.

Sif Ryu isn't a real name. He'd beat up Ben

We deliberated long and hard about the name. We had edward on the cards long ago but of course twilight f***ed that up.

Yes thats right - I chose my sons name based on a epic fail b grade flick. Had nothing to do with it once being a nice strong noble name before some f***** in a tree used it.

Poor jadz had his heart set on eli :D

Yeah thats right fizzer. Edward is an awesome name (8 generations strong in my family either as a first or second name depending on the order of the day) but f*****s in trees f*** things up for everyone.

Reminds me of my brother had Axle Foley as his ring tone since forever until crazy frog came and took a hairy dump over it and every time his phone rang people would say HAY MAN CRAZY FROG so that was the end of that one.

haha well done mate
the cross thread references are excellent up in here

Benjamin Thomas Ellis sounds like a name of a yuppy upperclass englishman.

That or jewish.

Better that than some video game kid from logan. ololol

Also Ellis jewish? lulz.

not a bad specimen

I think you mispelled 'Ben' - shouldn't it be 'Ken'?

W0rd up, grats man, very cute bub. How much for it?

*shifty eyes*

I think you mispelled 'Ben' - shouldn't it be 'Ken'?

Kenjamin?

Congrats to you and the Missus. I love kids, that's why I come to QGL, lol :)

\me refers to post in other thread :)

Congrats man :)

Kids are awesome!!

SEEK THE WISDOM OF THE ELDERS BUT LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH A CHILDS EYES.

never heard of ellis, is it a woman or mans name>?

it's a surname ;)

props fizzer! this definitely wasn't worth piking on golf for though

Grats mate

Hadouken!

this definitely wasn't worth piking on golf for though

My mate was playing golf while his first kid was delivered. No s***.

grats

Benjamin Thomas Ellis sounds like a name of a yuppy upperclass englishman.

for a minute there I thought it was a L4D2 character

Props Fizzer.....number 2 will seem like a breeze. Did well having natural birth especially if first was a csect.

Well done buddy!

Congratulations to you and your Missus

BABBY IS BIG

congrats to you and debby-lee pete!

your a god damn baby makin masheeeen :D

Congrats dude!

But seriously, f*** Twilight.

We've wanted an Isabella nicknamed Bella for seven years now, since our oldest was conceived. I've liked it since some ethnic peeps I worked with in Pizza Hut way back in 1995 called beautiful people Bella.

Now we're on our last run (no more than 3 kids for sanity) and I feel like I can't use the f***ing name. Rage.

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Bella literaly translates to "Beautiful" in italian
regardless of some movie or whatever, I would still name my kids what I want to name them

I remember when I was about 18 I thought to myself if I ever had a son I'd call him Jack, and I did
Then when my mrs was pregnant we had to come up with girl names just in case, so we decided on Lily

our first daughter will still be Lily, even if some stupid movie has a main character called Lily
Also, I would name my second daughter Isabella
Second son my mrs wants to call Hunter

keep in mind these kids will all share the last name "Johnson", ie Jack Johnson, Hunter Johnson etc
this day in age, too many people care about what other people think
f*** 'em I say

Also Ellis jewish? lulz.

umm.. i was refering to benjamin, foo aaa'

My instinct is to agree teq!

But I don't want the poor kid to have to put up with being associated with a f***** in a tree movie.

I'm so conflicted :(

Nice work :) Enjoy the next XXX years

Hunt her Johnson

tell me that's a joke... plz.

Thats awesome, its up there with max power even.

Also mad props on the kid, enjoy your bundle of scream

Congratulations mate.

I hope to be joining you (in being a Dad) come this time in April.

I hope I don't have any dramas like that.

you gonna name her xiona?