James and Christie

For those who haven’t been following the Facebook and Twitter news from us, we’ve had a pretty eventful first couple of weeks with our newest addition.  To start with, Sarah decided to make things quite difficult with feeding…in that she didn’t really want to feed very much at all.  Accompanied with the crying and then [...]

What a day!  After a Herculean effort by Christie – superhero even! – our new baby girl was born today at 3:30 p.m.  So, here’s a photo of
Sarah Lucy Maria Bergin

At 4.59kg (10 lb, 1 oz in the old country) she was quite well-cooked by the time she joined us all. [...]

So, here we are again. This time in North Shore hospital (the better side of the bridge), and a little earlier (i.e. 7 days overdue rather than 10), but same goal in mind: delivery of 1 x happy, healthy, baby and 1 x happy, healthy and probably very tired mummy.
They’ve had fun playing Find-A-Vein [...]

Seems like David has found some way to pass on influences to his baby sibling while in utero!  Christie is now 5 days overdue, and nothing much is happening.  The only good news is that we won’t be having to wait for 12 days (like David) to meet this one – Christie is scheduled to [...]

So we’re home!!! After 3 months out of our house while major renovations were taking place, we’re back! A huge thank you goes out to all our helper and supporters, most especially Rory and Eva – my overly awesome parents-in-law – who have put in hours and hours and days and days of work [...]