Kaylee Rae Hodge

Introducing Kaylee Rae Hodge.

We arrived at the Rotorua Hospital just before 11am on the morning of June 18, 2009. We were quickly shown to our room (room nine) in the perinatal ward of the hospital as the birthing ward was all full up.
After some initial consults from staff midwifes, the anesthialogist and the head surgeon for the day, we were quickly being whisked off to theatre to get prepped for surgery.
Kim was a real trouper and Graham, our midwife midhusband took loads of photos for us during the surgery.
Obviously we can’t share any of them with you due to this site being child friendly…

Will add some more info and photos later.
Gotta get back to the hospital.

Ciao

Points of interest

Name: Kaylee Rae Hodge
Meaning: Variant of Katherine. ‘Pure. ‘ Variant of Kay and Kayla ‘keeper of the keys; pure’
Origin: English
Gender: Female
Expected due date: 25th June
Time of birth: 2:15pm, June 18, 2009
Birth weight: 7lbs 14oz / 3.590kg

For up to date photos and videos, check out Kaylee’s new website at kayleehodge.com.

Baby 2.0

This time tomorrow, we’ll have another child.

Kim is going into hospital tomorrow morning for an elective cesarean (c-section) operation in the afternoon.

I’m not sure who’s more nervous, last time I nearly passed out. But with the help of our Midwife Midhusband Graham, I’m hoping to stand up and watch the baby being removed from my wife’s stomach.

Just thinking about it makes me queasy.

I hope to keep you all informed via this blog, twitter and facebook, so which ever medium you follow me on, be sure to wish Kim and I all the best and we’ll hopefully have something to show you all really soon.

First glimpse at new addition

We’d like to share with you all some great news!

KIM IS PREGNANT!!!

That’s right, number two is on the way and we couldn’t be any happier.

I must admit it was some fine work on my behalf. It was a game of two halves, full of ups and downs and full credit to the other team, they put up a valiant effort but in the end we managed to slip one past the goalie!
As of today we are just over 13 weeks, so already over a 1/4 of the way there. That was easy!
Kims’ due date is around the 24/25 of June 2009

Here are our first set of scans of the little one, now just under 7cm in length.
These are hot off the press from Wednesday 17 December, 2008

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Edward Stafford Southwick

Hot of the press from Jason & Jane’s recent weekend away to Wellington.
The latest pics of Edward at 4 weeks old.

Hodge Baby Boy Born Today

At 4am this morning my sister Christine gave birth to an 8lb 9oz healthy wee son.
Born in a birthing pool in their home, the little guy is doing well as are the parents and grandparents.
Within 20 minutes of having the baby it was sucking strongly on the breast.
A name has yet to be chosen.
They named him Edward Stafford Southwick.
He has a lovely head of hair and is beautiful.
The midwife Sandra, said it was a lovely birth with no complications.

Our first Hodge nephew and Joshua’s first Hodge cousin, so we are very excited for everyone.
So including Joshua, that makes 4 boys, 2 Rattray cousins and 1 Hodge cousin.