Elise Daphne was born to Paul & Susan last night at 10pm. Susan had an expert obstetrician in attendance at a local private hospital and so suffered no tearing or other injury despite some initial difficulties. And the babe was born in the best of pink health. So it was a perfect delivery. She was 54cm long and weighed 6 pounds 14 ounces ....
I paid for Susan to go private so am getting some of the credit for the excellent result of the delivery. In my view every cent was well spent if it helped to avoid harm to Susan and her babe
Elise is a name well known to all lovers of classical music after Beethoven wrote a beautiful short piano piece ("fuer Elise") for a little girl named Elise who was learning to play. It has been used as a learner piece ever since so is sometimes not appreciated as the masterpiece that it is.
Elise is actually the continental version of Elizabeth (pronounced eleeza in German) so there is a possibility that she will be nicknamed "Lizzy". I imagine that Susan hopes not.
Parents often have different ideas about the version of their child's name that should be used. My son has convinced most people to call him "Joey" but I call him "Joe". I think his mother mostly calls him "Joseph" when referring to him.
Another picture of the beautiful babe
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