he's here!

he's here!! baby joseph evan kendall arrived yesterday (feb 20th 2014) at 4:15pm, delivered by the lovely midwives at osborne park hospital (once again too fast for the doctors!) weighing 2480g (7lbs 6oz) and a very long 55cms. he is so so beautiful, i guess this is the good thing about being born quickly, neither of my babes have ended up with a squished head! haha. like maddie, he didn't cry, just took a big breath and looked around at his new world.

i ended up being induced, the day before my 41 weeks - having my waters broken and a drip to assist contractions, and a few hours later, he was with us!

he was obviously more than ready to join us - the minute he was placed on my chest he nuzzled in and started to feed without even any help from me. what a good boy.

his first picture with daddy, he is proud as punch to have a little boy. oh how i love them both!

amazingly enough, even with daddy's strong genes, joseph has blondy brown hair at the moment - not red! he is so alert and curious, looking around constantly when he isn't sleeping.

here he is being weighed and checked over by the midwife... loving having a chill under the light

and my first picture with baby j - at 3:15am the next morning when we were up having a feed. what a sweet boy, not very much noise, just a few quick cries, but he settled the minute i snuggled him and fed again. lets hope he continues like this.

getting used to the light - chilling in his portable crib in the hsopital

and passing his hearing test with flying colours. what a champ.

we were discharged at lunchtime after maddie and doug came to collect us - and off home we went. i can't get enough of this sweet boy. more soon - but for now, welcome to the world baby j! x