As you may guess by the title, we have renamed our darling baby. Gone is the very pretty, delicate "Elise". In its stead is Squeaky, The Truffle Pig Dalzell. Got a nice ring to it, eh? Why such a drastic change after only a few days? Well, we decided that her name should be reflective of her actions. Whenever she gets hungry and I am holding her (which is quite often as she seems to want to feed about every 5 minutes!!), she scrunches her legs up and starts snorting and...

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I would like to introduce the newest member of the DL household, Elise Rayne Dalzell. She was born at 8:44am on Tuesday, September the 6th at St. Paul's Hospital. She is 21" long and weighs 7lbs 9ozs. The labour went extremely well and Christine came through like a pro! Fortunately, we were able to come home yesterday and not have to spend the night, due to the fact that we have a midwife.

We came home at about 8pm last night and have successfully made it through our first night as...

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All you BC wine lovers out there probably thought this was an entry about Burrowing Owl wine (have you tried the Merlot? It's fantastic). Actually, it's about the burrowing owl I have been transporting for the last 10 months. Every night between 8 and 8:30 or so, the bump tries to burrow its way out. It is 8:38 right now and the bump has been vigorously rubbing my bladder with its head for about half an hour now. How comfy.

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Well, here we are with one day to go until our due date. No sign of any baby action yet except that the bump has FINALLY dropped. Normally they drop about 2 weeks prior but ours, like its mum in the morning, is finding it just too cozy to contemplate coming out.

My midwives had a couple of theories: 1. There is plenty of room in my pelvis so the baby just sort of bobs in to take a look and then comes back out again thinking "yup...plenty of room and I know where I'm going so I'm...

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