Sat 25 Mar 06, a new son was born Fri 24 Mar 06, Kaelan

0km today and 60km for the week so far. 18/25 runs this month & 65/84 runs for the year

As most regular readers would know I seperated from Julie in late Aug 05, but many wouldn't know that she was pregnant when this happened.

Thursday night, just before 10pm Julie rang me and asked if I could take her to the hospital, she was 13 days overdue and was having many contractions and was ready for pain relief. The previous pregnancys have been very long, so she was in no rush. We arrived at the hospital and completed paperwork and up to the delivery room. Her plan was to wait until she was ready for the epidural (sp) and then phone her delivery buddy, so I suggested I would stay until then, which she was happy with.

Normal tests and obs and by about 12 she had decided some gas might assist her. The midwife decided before ring her doc she would do an internal....things were happening and she was 5cm dilated, we were both very shocked, as previous times this would have taken more than a day. She was put on a drip for fluid and the contractions became more frequent but the intencity was not increasing. About 12:45 Julie strongly suggested she wanted more relief than the gas, they did another internal and smiled and said too late... a lot of rushing about, more than 8cm. They told us the doc would come in now, about 5 min later Julie was starting to push and there was more rushing around and the 'duty' doc appeared and said she was fully dilated and I could sense we were getting close, about 1:10am Dr Ho arrived and by 1:25am, Kaelan Tadgh Macaulay was born, my fourth son and Julie's third.

1:25am Fri 24 March 2006, 4360 grams (9lb 10oz), 55 cm long and head 36cm

Very happy to have been allowed to be a part of my son's birth, both baby and mother are doing well. Picture to be shown when I download from camera.

There will be a lack of running over the next few days with my boys visiting.



This is Connor's (7 year old) first hold of his youngest brother!