On Monday 5 April, our first wedding anniversary, Hannah Marie Mitchell, our first child, arrived into the world.  You can see more photos and read more about it all here.

My wife did a superb job delivering Hannah without any drugs and in a very short period of time.  I was able to get really involved in the birth, actually 'catching' Hannah as she came into the world as well as the usual umbilical cord business.  An amazing, if incredibly gory, experience.

After the birth my wife's blood pressure dropped to the point where she passed out and started to fit; probably the scariest moment of my life.  Thankfully the medical staff responded quickly, and after lying for a while with her legs higher than her head she fully recovered.  After I'd recovered from the shock, a few hours later, in a sleep-deprived state I was thinking 'wow, thank god they knew how to reboot my wife after a system crash'.