I’ve just spoken to my very tired, but elated friend Jane, who gave birth to a beautiful boy at 3am this morning.

After 17 hours, head posterior and still only being 8cm dilated, she had a caeser and into the world came a gorgeous boy. She hasn’t named hime yet, he spent the night in the nursury and she wanted to see him agian before deciding. But I’ll post it here with a pic when I see them both tomorrow.

A few weeks ago I was telling Jane about the strange, prehistoric, gutteral kind of moan that you make when you have a contraction, and I advised her to take some throat lozengers for the day after. Today she thanked me for that advice, casue her throat was killing her and sounded all husky and raspy – but she was prepared!!

Congratulations Jane. I’m so proud of you, and I can’t wait to hold you baby boy and give him a kiss on his forehead.