Benjamin is here-born today!

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 02:23

My other half has just given birth to a bouncing 8lb 13.5 oz baby boy.Both are well and I am beaming from ear to ear.

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 02:27

Congratulations Iain!





Have you worked out his BMI yet?









tootie

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 02:34

Yes....he is a healthy weight for his length,and feeding voraciously from the kick-off! Many thanks,

TheSaints



Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 1369

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 02:55

Congratulations to you both oh and the bairn for making an appearance, from my wife and myself. Great moment in life I remember the feeling well, enjoy.

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 03:06

Many thanks Saints from both Vicki and myself. I cant sleep I,m so happy and proud. Vicki was magnificent........some women are incredible during labor and it was my humble priveledge to witness such behaviour today. I am indeed a lucky man.

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 06:40

Iain..congratulations to both you and Vicki....sleepless nights awaiting you both..enjoy. xx kisses for little one.

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 07:29

When you have a spare moment can you let us know a few more details..ie boy/girl etc..thanks.

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 07:31

Benjamin, ahhh a little boy, wonderful, boys are the very best..

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 07:31

Iain I am cracking up lol...too many xenical I think ..lol

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 07:39

Ian and Vicki Congratulations

Health and Happiness to baby Benjamin always

Sheila (smithy)

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 07:47

Many congratulations Ian and Vicki.

Littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 08:12

Congratulations Iain and Vicki.



I do hope to see pics of him in a claret and blue baby grow soon.

Baspinar Bob


Joined: 15/02/2008
Posts: 618

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 08:25

Iain and Vicki,Many congratulations i hope both Benjamin and Vicki are well, it would be great for him to spend his first years watching Burnley in the premier,fingers crossed.



Bob.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 08:53

HI Ian and Vicky as along with everybody many congrats. You must be so proud of both Vicky and Benjamin. Well done Vicky. Ian lovely words you said about Vicky. Health and happiness and love to you 3 xxxx

lovinit


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 745

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 09:03

congrats young man, what a busy boy you will be !!, all best

cruggs


Joined: 06/04/2008
Posts: 498

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 09:17

congratulations,on a job well done.and congratulations to your wife as well.women dont know what we men have to go through at a time like this. i still have labour pains after 36 years.health and happieness to your young son.

alano


Joined: 20/12/2008
Posts: 139

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 09:19

Congratulaions Ian and Vicky on your new Son, we havent met but well done both.Alan

catalkoykid


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 1190

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 09:53

whens the next 1, maybe you will get a football team congrats

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 09:59

Many thanks to everyone for the kind felicitations....I hope to meet lots of you at some point along life's interesting road and some I have already met. Littlenige-his first babygrow(growbags,as I call them) is right out of the Turf Moor top drawer! Again,many thanks.

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 10:09

I must add that the whole experience was greatly enhanced by the very kind and professional ministrations of the midwife at Airedale hospital. She was great. As Cruggs quite rightly puts it, childbirth is a strangely impotent experience for men to go through. We feel disparate from a painful ordeal for our other halves.....wanting to take away the pain, but unable to do so. We are there, but not really there, as we are observers and comforters.....when no comfort is really forthcoming......until the end ! Then what joy.Vicki's face lit up when she saw him for the first time and he coughed his first breath of life. Its moments like those which linger in the cortex fortunately, as the pain of delivery melts away....for both parties concerned.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 10:34

Hi again Ian reading that has made me cry. Im sure he will be a great joy to you both. I think I will wet the babys head today. love to you all xxxxx

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 11:52

Another precious cargo safely delivered, good luck and much happiness to you all.

Hattikins

lulubell


Joined: 18/11/2008
Posts: 595

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 12:08

congratulations to you both



lulubell and family.

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 12:18

Sincere Congratulations Ian Vicki and baby Benjamin, how wonderful for you both.



Vicki

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 12:19

What wonderful sentiments in your message 20 Iain. Congratulations to you all on this 26th April, my husband's 41st birthday!

Jo

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 12:28

Congratulations to Iain and Vicki. Wishing your son a healthy and happy life.

clayton


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 1143

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 13:24

congradulations

spangles


Joined: 22/10/2008
Posts: 411

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 15:18

Congratulations to both of you and welcome to baby Benjamin. He will be OK at Turf Moor as he already knows how to cry! (I'm from Blackburn you see) Only joking. Best wishes.

Littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 16:31

Ahh doc there is always a dilema do you go yorkhsire Airedale hospital. or lancashire Blackburn............................



No choice really you did the right thing.

ian444


Joined: 14/01/2009
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 16:42

congratulations to you all, and burnley nearly in the play offs happy times



my eldest also called Benjamin seemed like yesterday he was born now he staggers in at 6 am from a night out.



off to the theatre of nightmares ( ewood park) not very confident.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 21:52

all the best iain /////////////

dodger



Joined: 29/07/2007
Posts: 1895

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 22:31

Clarets,

We ll done to you both as the bairn got hair like Ralph Clucas,lol

Blackpoolfan


Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 22:42

Dr Dingle,

Witnessing the birth of your child is the pinnacle for me it doesn't get any better. Congratulations to you and your family would you consider putting your son in tangerine? Thought not............

jfoggy


Joined: 23/12/2006
Posts: 260

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 22:51

Congratulations to you both, and a huge welcome to baby Benjamin. I was moved to tears by your posting (20). Your sentiments and words really touched me, and took me/us back 35 years ago when our first son Antony was born......all repeated a couple of years later when son number two, Nick came along. Enjoy every moment, they grow up too quickly! xx



Julie

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
Posts: 792

Message Posted:
26/04/2009 23:19

Congratulations to you all. Hope when you register him there is not any mention of Turf Moor on the birth certificate?

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
27/04/2009 00:22

Again,many thanks for all the kind words and sentiments from myself and Vicki. We are ecstatically happy with the arrival of Ben ! Thanks too Blackpoolfan,though I might decline the kind offer of a tangerine shirt.He is currently nestling in our bed in a Clarets growbag!

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
27/04/2009 07:41

Clarets one can tell a lot about a person from their words and postings...Vicki is a lucky girl and Benjamin has a first rate daddy...love to all 3 of you.

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
27/04/2009 10:19

Many thanks Dee-I can assure you,it is I who is very lucky indeed!

sylvie


Joined: 12/03/2008
Posts: 1081

Message Posted:
27/04/2009 10:39

clarets and vicky,



"félicitatations " it is one of the most beautiful thing i the world to be parents - i am sure baby Benjamin will groown very healthy in this wonderful country!

chinaeyes


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 425

Message Posted:
27/04/2009 11:42

Congratulations to all your family,you had better start saving up for his own fridge,my son just seemed to eat and eat from 11yrs on and looked like a beanpole.Enjoy your son,he will soon grow up,spend every moment you can with him.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
27/04/2009 11:58

Congratulation Iain & Vicky - wish you all the joy in the world with Ben.



PS chinaeyes - my son, too, started eating at around 11 years and doesn't seem to have slowed down. He's 28 now and still looks like a beanpole.



J