Who's Who?

Dave (on the right) and his brother Darran (don't you just love 70s clothes?!)

and Jacob

When I find a scanner, they'll be a baby image of me too. Daniel is supposed to look a bit like me, poor little lad ;o)

Daniel Scott Allen

Daniel Scott Allen arrived on Wednesday 19th August at 10.08 am weighing 3560 grams / 7lb 13 oz.

Daniel came "out the sunroof" a week early, due to him being breech and I had gestational diabetes. I have to say a planned caesarian is quite good when you have a toddler to organise being looked after and your husband working an hour and a half away. I had to go in the night before, so they could sort out my insulin in the morning. Jacob went to my parents for a few nights. Dave booked the Wednesday off and was there for when Daniel arrived and it was all pretty easy and surreal, it felt like it was happening to someone else.

Jacob met his little brother that afternoon and was most impressed with the car transporter Daniel had got him ;o).

Daniel was unnamed for over a week. Dave found it very hard to decide on a name and it wasn't until nine days later we settled on Daniel Scott.

Recovery after the birth was a lot better than I expected, don't get me wrong, I was in pain, discomfort and needing pain relief, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I could move a lot faster than I thought I was going to, feeding Daniel wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, over the weeks everything got easier. So, if your caesarian is planned, it's not too bad.

Disaster!!!

Since returning to the UK we have been jinxed with our digital camera. First of all, whilst on our first trip to Spain, the camera accidently found the tiled floor in our house, quite early on in the trip and so hardly any photos were taken. Then, after three trips back to the manufacturers, it finally got fixed. This took several months. The last trip was September, just before it ran out of guarantee.

Then, whilst trying to upload the images from the memory card, it got fried in our laptop - lost the images since April including Daniel's birth photos. I was very upset, as you can imagine. Dave kindly stepped in, tried to retrieve the images with his special software, but no, nothing. So we had to send the card off to a specialised company, pay lots of money and we got 198 images back and thank goodness, quite a few of Daniel and lots more of Jacob.

So, over the next week or two, will try to get some up on here.