Here he is...

Hi you lot.

Haven't been here since 2/11 and I'm glad to see you all missed me.

Part of the reason I was AWOL is this little bundle that MrsP just produced.

Jake Daniel, born on 5/12/2006 at 8.38 am. Weighing 7lb 3oz. Healthy and happy.

Unfortunately, he was born with a wonky left arm. We can't figure out how three ultrasound operators missed that his arm was half the length of his right and his thumb was missing, considering two of them went out of their way to count the fingers and toes :confused:

Anyway, we don't really care, it was a bit of a shock when we were told in the op theatre once he was born.

He's our first boy and his sisters are not impressed...

Dan

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Anyway, we don't really care, it was a bit of a shock when we were told in the op theatre once he was born.

He's our first boy and his sisters are not impressed...

Dan

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Awwh bugger Mr and Mrs Dan, :( Im sure the girls will get over his slight imperfection and love him as he should be loved.

Al :( :( :(

Congratulations Dan! The girls are gonna love him, of that I have no doubt.

cheers, and welcome back!

Congrats to you and the family Dan. :)

I was only thinking today that we hadn't heard from you for a while. True.;)
Glad you've come back with a new addition to the Magpie army. :D

Congratulations to MrsP and yourself and welcome to JD!

Congratulations to you both Dan. He is living and breathing and that is the main thing and he will certainly learn to cope.

Congratulations buddy.

That's great news Dan:D .
all the best for Mum & Bub.

Well Dan now the girls can't gang up on you so much. Congratulations.

Congratulations Mr & Mrs Dan,
as Bazza said Jake will learn to cope.

Well done mate:)

Congrats and well done to you and mrs DanP .

Congratulations Dan and to your wife! Hope it all goes well.

Cheers:)

Good on ya.

Great work Dan, start now though and label your tools, I'm still trying to retrieve mine from my sons toolboxes.

Congratulations Dan and MrsP!

Cheers
Wendy

Good work Dan & Mrs P, & welcome to the world Jake :)

"P" family,

Lots of cheers from the Midge's too,

All great stuff I reckon!

:D :D :D
P

Congratulations, Dan - to you and Mrs P and all the little Ps!

Congrats and best wishes to you all!

Congratulations, 'P' Family! :)

Well done Dan, and I guess Mrs P. I'm sure the girls will learn to love him just as my older two sisters didn't. :)

Good on ya Dan. All the best to Mrs Dan. Where's his Glock??? :D

PS: Perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

Hi again,

Thanks for the kind wishes.

Mum and Jake are now home. The girls are getting used to his existence and as yet have not tried to 'off' him by feeding him something (we are expecting it though).

As far as his arm goes, it'll only be a disability if he wants it to be. If we treat him as if he's disabled, he'll behave that way. As far as were concerned, he'll never know anything different and will learn to use it as does a baby with completely normal arms. He still has function in it so we can't see it being a huge issue.

We expect to see a hand specialist at some time in the future who will give an indication if anything can be done.

Dan

BTW. The Obstetrician has done some research and found a name for the condition. He googled it and came up with nothing at all. It's obviously fairly rare.

Congratulations Dan and Co.

All the best on all fronts.

I can picture the nursery, little blue and red flashing lights on the cot, blue and white check along the side, kiddy cuffs etc.
Does he have a rank yet:D :D :D :D
Congrats to the both of you.

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blue and white check along the side, .

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Black & white stripes more like. :D

Congrats on the new addition to the family

oh mate gummy arm or not he is just gorgeous. I went to school with a little girl that had her wrist for her ankles and he ankles were her wrists. IT did not stop her one bit. Today they can do amazing things, you wait and see won't be long that little arm will clobber you. He is just divine. Pretty boy must take after mum hey?? LOL no congratulations
bye TOni

Dan and Mrs P, well done. A new addition in the house is always wonderful.

I think he will need some good tools for being so special - start buying them for him now mate.

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BTW. The Obstetrician has done some research and found a name for the condition. He googled it and came up with nothing at all. It's obviously fairly rare.

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It's not everyone who can produce a one of a kind, rare and obviously great looking individual like that.

Congrats to you and the missus. The girls will think he is absolutely precious as he gets older and they become more used to him...... If not, sell them off to the highest bidder. Boys are much easier to bring up.

Cheers - Neil :)

Congrats Dan and family... so whats the 1st WW project for the lill fella?

Congratulations, Dan, to both yourself and your wife. If he has your strength of character he'll be right. :)

congratulations dan and family
all the best

onya Mrs Dan. If one of his arms is a bit wonky he'll have to work on his left/right ? hook...! Lucky dads a copper!

Cheers mate.

Well done, what a lovely little baby P! I agree with Neil, boys are way easier to raise than their darling sisters. As you have girls already, you've probably seen "Finding Nemo" about four billion times..... you'll know that your lad doesn't have a smaller arm, he just has a 'lucky fin'. Congratulations to you all.

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Well done, what a lovely little baby P! I agree with Neil, boys are way easier to raise than their darling sisters. As you have girls already, you've probably seen "Finding Nemo" about four billion times..... you'll know that your lad doesn't have a smaller arm, he just has a 'lucky fin'. Congratulations to you all.

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We related Shedgirl??? :D

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We related Shedgirl??? :D

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Yeah... we come from a long and venerated line of Sheds :)

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BTW. The Obstetrician has done some research and found a name for the condition. He googled it and came up with nothing at all. It's obviously fairly rare.

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I dunno why it bothers me they use Google, but it does.

Congrats Dan and MrsP, im sure his sisters will like him lots more once he gets more mobile.

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As you have girls already, you've probably seen "Finding Nemo" about four billion times.....

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Thats all my son would watch at one stage too, has progressed to spiderman now :D