{"id":1,"date":"2008-01-02T21:15:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2008-01-26T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T14:14:27","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Hello World!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leisa & Michael are very happy to welcome young Ruben Patrick Murphy to the world.<\/p>\n

He made his appearance on Wednesday 2 January 2008 at 9.15pm in a birthpool in our dining room after a fairly short and productive labour that kicked off around 5am that morning. He was a week early, born spot on 39 weeks – a good two or three weeks before we expected to see him!<\/p>\n

He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces (or about 3.5kg) and measured in at about 53cms. We think he’s pretty perfect, especially now that his head looks a little less alien.<\/p>\n

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Everyone is doing really well and we have settled in for a ‘getting to know you’ intensive session which involves lots of sleeping, eating and learning the language of ‘baby’ – as well as getting to grips with the puzzle of poppers that is his clothing!<\/p>\n

\"Ruben\"<\/p>\n

We are all immensely grateful to our wonderful midwives, Teresa & Annie of South London Independent Midwives <\/a>who have been amazing from the first time we met them, who supported us through out pregnancy both physically and psychologically!, through a labour and birth that we couldn’t have hoped to be better, and who continue to pop in daily to answer our silly questions and help us come to grips with how to look after this little bundle who’s now a part of our lives. We’re so pleased that we had them there for us throughout the journey, and that we surprised ourselves and decided to try for a natural home birth – both were definitely the right decisions for us.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile – there is sleep to be had, so we’d better go have some!<\/p>\n

More stories from the front line as they emerge… with apologies in advance for typos from one handed typing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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