Thursday, December 07, 2006

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its off to birth we go!!!


Well, the day has finally arrived. It is early Monday morning and we are just leaving to go the Umhlanga Hospital for the "planned ceasar. We are expected to be there at 06h00, and the opertation will most likely be done at around 09h00, and lasts about 60 minutes or so in total. Riley will most likely be born by about 9h15.

A lot depneds on what happens before our turn as Claudia is scheduled as the second operation of the day. Dr Hartmann even spoke about starting early (i.e 07h30) which could move the whole day up by half an hour.

Strangely, it is actually quite chilly this morning. I suppose after the last few days of rain this is to be excpected. The sun does look like it will be shining, which is a good thing.

What this means, is that in a very short while, Dominique Riley Fredanus van Gelder will be born, slightly earlier than anticipated - well, maybe not (I thought around the 10th).

As soon as we have any news and pictures I will post them for all to see.

Wish us luck...

2 comments:

Brett van Gelder said...

Good luck! We will be thinking of you... in fact she might be born right now... it is 07.18 in London (09.18 in South Africa) right now.

Anonymous said...

Been thinking of you since early this morning.