Wednesday 10th May

At 2.34pm today, Bluey gave birth to a beautiful set of baby balls.

It has been a long and quite painful labour. We had our first contractions over a week ago, where it seemed the birth would be imminent and relatively straightforward. Since then we have had a few false starts, a number of premature rushings to the maternity ward and an agonising final day today. At one point we appeared to be just seconds away from becoming proud parents, only for the social worker to arrive and threaten to take our babies away.

It was a proud moment for us all in the delivery room when, with the aid of a quick squirt of WD40, out popped our first new-born.

For so long we have looked forward to the patter of tiny feet. Tomorrow we start the next chapter, as we offer up our little ones for adoption.

Paul



(OK, so anyone arriving at this blog for the first time, you'd better look at previous postings below to see that Bluey is in fact our container full of thousands of footballs destined for the children of Malawi. All should then make more sense...)