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When I said “TV is crap at 4am” I was wrong. Jeremy Clarkson has just popped up on Parky.

Our baby was born at 1:55am on Saturday.

We had a fairly major problem during delivery that meant Lisa had to have an emergency caesar at very short notice, but all went well in the end.

The surgical team at St John of God were amazing given such short notice.

We went from birthing suite to theatre to holding our beautiful new baby girl in little over half an hour. There were no long introductions and I regrettably don’t remember many names.

I’ve never sat in an operating theatre during an operation before. Watching the team work I was half nervous hoping that everything went well and half fascinated at how slick the whole operation was. There was very little chatter; everyone just did their thing perfectly. They worked really quickly but without any fuss or drama. Not at all like it is on TV.

The one time the team dropped their totally professional 100% focus was the slight chuckle after I said “caeser”, ”while you’re at it” and “liposuction” all in the same sentence.

Lisa is still in hospital and will be for another day or two. I’ll ask her to post something more substantial once she’s back home.

I’m still trying to catch up on sleep. Lisa’s parents were kind enough to mind The Kid last night so I got 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, but my sleep patterns are still all screwed up. I fell asleep earlier in the evening but woke up to watch the Monaco Grand Prix and couldn’t get back to sleep. TV is crap at 4am.

There are a bunch of photos up on SmugMug.