from peanut to angry raisin .. our (love) child is born

On Sunday 22 January 2006 at 19:26 - Scott Francis van Rooijen made his entrance onto the planet Earth - weighing in at 3.450 kg's and 54cm tall. In true familial style he was early and he made it in record time - both parents being impatient and rather single minded :).
I'll give you all a very quick run-down of how the day went ... you know you'll hear more about it later.

At 06:50 my waters broke and by 10 am contractions had started. As most of you know Muriel, the Mater, was scheduled to arrive at 10 and Mart had to go and welcome her on his own .. the poor Mater landed right in the middle of the drama which actually now that I think about it - probably suited her just Fine haha
From 2 pm till 5 pm I was instructed to lie down and breathe ... never before has breathing been that difficult.
At 5 pm my midwife came for a check and discovered that I was fully dilated which prompted an emergency run to the local hospital - Starsky and Hutch style - haha - myself and midwife in the first car my mom and Martijn following close on our heals.
By the time we arrived at the hospital 'pushing' contractions had already started and thus the real labour!!
From about 5:30 pm I started pushing ... Mart was amazing with tandem support and the Maman was ready with cold compress on forehead and junk ...
Scott - the star - did everything he was supposed to do, and then some. And by 19:26 he came into the world - an angry Raisin as his Dad puts it. He was all scrunched up and blue and despite all that, he was beautiful (no we are not just saying that coz he's our son!).
On sunday night i had to stay in hospital just tomake sure all was well with son and Mom and mondaymorning we packed Scott into his ski suit for his first ride home ... Dad drove very carefully :)

Day 3 of life and him and Mom are doing well - I am still a bit sore of course but I have never been happier and I cannot believe this little man is ours and that he is so perfect and that we are now in the presence of the kicking machine that was so recently in my belly :)
As his aunt Sune's gift put it (see picutre of little hat) - welcome to the World - Scott - our little miracle!!