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  • Day 10

    AUNTY ALI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    July 19, 2006 in Singapore ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    OH MY GOD!!!! at 11:20 pm local time there was a new Wheeler born. Saffron Wheeler weighed in at just over 5lbs and is a fiesty, happy little baby. The first we heard was when we were leaving the botanical gardens to meet Chris and Rebecca for dinner in Chinatown and turned on Ali's phone to check for messages from Chris and there was, "looks like Rebbeca's in labour" at which point we changed the destination of the taxi from Chinatown to Raffles city where we would wait to hear if we should go to the Raffles hospital where they were headed. Chris phoned Ali while we were in the taxi and told us that he would let us know of any developments. 1 hour, a singapore sling, and a nose round the Raffles hotel later we decided to wander down towards the hospital where we were informed that they had gone home, shortly afterwards while enjoying some Korean food, Chris phoned to say that the doctors had sent Rebecca home because she was in the really early stages, we stopped for a beer and got a bit lost on the way home and by the time we got here the
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    Ali next to the biggest palm leaf we've ever seen
    flat was empty. About 10 mins ago Ali got through on the phone to Chris who gave us the the big news! First thing tommorrow morning we're off to the hospital and will post up photos as soon as we have them for everyone reading this and going AWWWW!!!! we will attach some photos of our day but everything has really been a eclypsed by the new arrival!

    Stew and Ali
    (hot, tired and very emotional!)
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