We promised the people of Asia that we would do the trip, and then go home and have babies. We have delivered on that promise, or at least Georgie has delivered. All is well with us, Georgie is smiling after the ordeal and the baby is well.

Simon and Oscar

Georgie started labour last Friday morning, we were in hospital at 3.30 on Friday afternoon, just before the snow fell. We tried for a natural birth until 9am on Saturday, when it became obvious that the baby wasn't descending properly - cause unknown - and the baby was starting to get distressed. We decided that a caesarean section was safest for baby and mum. At 10.13am the baby boy - Oscar Baatar McCarthy - was born and the reason for the difficulty became obvious - he was 9lb 15oz (4.5kg) - he was stuck!!

I got to hold the baby (big, blond, blue eyes) for 30 mins while Georgie was repaired. I got to see him open his eyes for the first time - poor soul having me as the first thing he sees!!

Georgie and Oscar

Yawning

Chilled

I have some recovering to do myself, and then some cleaning.

And why the daft names - well Oscar was nick-named 'Ozzy' before birth (Ozzy Unborn) and Oscar seemed to stick well with that nick-name and Baatar is the Mongolian word for 'Hero' (Ulaan Baatar – the capital of Mongolia – is names after Sukhbaatar, the ‘Red Hero’).

Simon (happy and still shaking)