The Introduction

Abigail makes an entrance!

Hello everybody! This is the event which has prompted the setting up of this little endeavour. The arrival, on Wednesday June 27th 2007, at 6:45am, of Abigail Faith Chapman. She made a sudden entrance into the world, seeing as it was just 2-and-a-half hours between Deborah waking up, thinking she might be in labour, and the delivery in Stirling Royal Infirmary.

We left Yoker in Glasgow at 5:45, arriving at the hospital at 6:15. For those of you familiar with driving the geography of Scotland, you'll appreciate that this required me to be driving rather quickly, but we really thought that we were going to deliver a baby at the side of the motorway, so I am entirely unrepentent. The midwives, who were friends of Deborah's, were fantastic. They were surprised at how far on she was, but didn't miss a beat. And so, after just a half hour in the labour ward, we had our new arrival!

As I'm sure you'll appreciate, this marks the beginning of a whole new phase of life for the two of us, since we are now the 3 of us. Hopefully, we'll be able to chronicle here the adventures to come. Watch this space for news of family, our move to Stornoway and of course, Abigail's first year.