It's a girl!

[Trippy]

I'm too tired.

I fucked something up right ?

No. SMF code doesn't handle FTP URLs properly if you use the URL tags as seen below (hover over the link so you see the rendered URL) so I put the correct HTML straight into the database (bypassing SMF).

Cuteness (broken)

If you want to use an FTP URL, just type it in without any tags like so:

ftp://193.192.69.187/P1010016.MOV (Cuteness working)

Edit: fixed more typos

[Signe]

You're like a new man, IW.  Which is good because the old one was getting grumpier by the day.  Fatherhood has made you NICE!!!

[Ironwood]

Fatherhood has made me TIRED.

I'm an English Graduate that can't spell and and IT Manager that can't slap up some web-code.

Christine coming home from the hospital tomorrow.  I'm going to feed, change and bathe Elena and then I'm going to sit beside her and sleep for as long as I can.

Tired, I tell you.  Walking to the hospital 4 times a day takes it out of you.

[Engels]

That second movie is great. She looks like she's inherited her dad's snarkiness. She already has that 'god you are all so boring and stupid' expression.

[Signe]

You are an English graduate WHO can't spell.   

You are also an f13'er WHO I love to tease.  If I were as rich as you are, I would hire ex-cons to tickle you every morning.  Big guys.  I would pay them to giggle like little girls, too.

[Moaner]

For some reason I missed this thread until today, so I just wanted to say Congrats!

Here's hoping you actually get some sleep in the next 6 months.

[Yegolev]

Fatherhood has made me TIRED.

QFT.  But worth it.  I also wish sleep upon you within the next twelve months.

Tip: video yourself as well, then watch the tape when she is three.

Another tip: do not ever look down the barrel, even if you think she's not loaded.

[Megrim]

Congradulations Ironwood! You will of course teach her the proper use of a claymore. Also, am i a bad man for pointing out that she abbreviates to EMP? 'cause you know, that is fairly awesome.

[Ironwood]

No, I was aware of it.

Fairly sure Robots won't bother her.

[Hanzii]

A  belated congratulations. She's seriously cute and I'm glad your wife is fine now.

This:

Seriously. Cutest baby ever. Can she be the f13.mascot?

Is only because I didn't post pics when Hannah (14 months) or Laura (5 years) were born.

Re: Yegolev:
My wife had an emergency section the first time and a planned at the second birth, but I'd still say go for natural childbirth every time if it's an option (but make sure you know all your options and are well briefed on pros and cons). Sections are full surgery and inheriently more risky. There's a lot to be said - but that's for another thread. But a drugged up wife unable to hold the child for long while the father gets all the early bonding is one big argument against just picking a section. Your wife (and mine) had no choice in the matter, but mine wasn't happy about it either time.

... and you'll get some decent sleep in about 4-5 years time (unless you get another, that resets everything)

[Typhon]

  extremelyverycute, grats!

[Signe]

This thread is already FOUR pages long.  Four pages of ooohing and ahhhing.  And it's about a  baby!  It doesn't even have a gear box!  Sheesh.   Watta bunch of hens!  You're ALL on my list of softies, now.  Not a hard man amoung you!  Well, except IW cause he just had a baby.

[Margalis]

I didn't aww.

Actually I was going to post that this makes me NOT want to have a baby after reading about the lack of sleep, diaper changing, etc, but decided against it.

I get very grumpy without my sleep. And I'm grumpy enough as it is.

I'm a real man! (Westles and kills grizzly bear)

[Signe]

Well, I don't know how much of a real man you are... I mean, I did think you were a woman named Margalis  for ages.  I always pictured you looking just like that pretty jazz singer,   You are pretty grumpy sometimes though.  I think you have very womanly political opinions.  We both share a long standing crush on Clint Eastwood. 

Ok, fair enough, you're on the hard man list with such notorious people as Xanthippe, Haemish, Morphiend, Big Gulp, Numtini and Moe from the Three Stooges .  Some people I can't suss at all.  Schild is on no list because, although he talks tough, I have seen him weep for the children.  WAP should be on my old softie list, but sometimes he tells someone off in a most spectacular way using very unwomanly body parts.  I'll sort them out, though. 

Anyway... again... Cute baby, IW.  Stay hard!  (err, you know what I mean)

[Jayce]

The (U.S.) hospital I had my second son at (last month) did a thing where they laid the baby on Mom's chest for about 20 minutes almost immediately after birth.  All they did was clean him up - even put off weighing, measuring etc.

Apparently this helps stabilize blood sugar, temperature and other vitals even better than the incubator, which is another advantage to natural delivery.  So I think it's very situational whether you choose c-section or natural.


I was blessed with two very easy and normal deliveries. IW, you're a "harder" (thanks Signe) man than I to have dealt with those complications.  I would have been freaking out.  To undergo that stress and still have the presence of mind to share this occasion with us - worth your own thread at the very least.

[Llava]

I didn't "aww" either.  Children frighten me.

It wasn't so much an "awww" as an "AHHH!"

It's pronounced the same, but the inflection is different.

[Signe]

I didn't "aww" either.  Children frighten me.

It wasn't so much an "awww" as an "EEK!!"

It's pronounced the same, but the inflection is different.

I agree.  I am more scared of babies than itchy bears.

[WayAbvPar]

WAP should be on my old softie list, but sometimes he tells someone off in a most spectacular way using very unwomanly body parts.

LMAO. That made my day!

I am generally a softie, but if I get pissed off I can hold a grudge like nobody's business (I am assuming this is due to my quarter Scot blood).

IW, post a pic of the bags under your eyes! They should be ready for their own postal codes here in the next few days 

[Bunk]

Of course I'm going to ooh and ah. It's my favorite kind of baby - someone elses. My sister's getting married in a few weeks, I can't wait for her to have a kid. I have big shoes to live up to, as memories of my uncle when I was a kid were some of my fondest.

Favorite memories of someone else's babies:

 - My aunt, who's four years older than me, changing my newborn nephew's diaper and getting a full blown super soaker in the face.
 - a buddy's little girl, not quite walking but at that climbing stage. I'm sitting in on the floor and she crawls over and decides to use me to climb on. Ends up litteraly hanging from my lower lip. Was rather  awkward, but quite funny.

[Lantyssa]

Screaming at the sight of a helpless baby isn't very manly, whether you use "AHHHH!" or "EEK!".  The manly thing is to ask how many years will it take for the thing to start fetching your beer.

[Yegolev]

I am generally a softie, but if I get pissed off I can hold a grudge like nobody's business

Sounds like a woman to me.

[WayAbvPar]

I am generally a softie, but if I get pissed off I can hold a grudge like nobody's business

Sounds like a woman to me.

The difference is that I hold grudges for rational reasons.

[Yegolev]

Good parry.  Let's change topics before Signe asks someone to get hard again.

[Fargull]

Tardy to the thread, but good job man!  Glad your wife is doing good and the bundle of joy is spectacular.