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BS: Our Freda is a Gran!

11 Oct 04 - 10:22 AM (#1294241)
Subject: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Ellenpoly

In case you missed seeing this...

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: freda underhill - PM
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:51 AM

11. As of today, I am grandmother to a beautiful baby girl, Rose Marie.



I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing Infant, Mum, and Gran, all the best in the world.

..xx..e


11 Oct 04 - 10:46 AM (#1294255)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Liz the Squeak

Oh Freda, congratulations!!

LTS


11 Oct 04 - 11:40 AM (#1294288)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: katlaughing

Lots of fun in store for you, Freda!

Congratulations from one gran to another!


11 Oct 04 - 11:48 AM (#1294296)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennyO

I gather it was a long day and night's hard work, and freda is probably catching up on some sleep right now. I think I'll leave it for her to tell you all the details tomorrow. Another Libran - yaaaayyy!!

WELCOME TO THE WORLD ROSE MARIE


11 Oct 04 - 11:48 AM (#1294298)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: McGrath of Harlow

Happy Birthday. Rose Marie.

Oh Rose Marie I love you
I'm always dreaming of you
No matter what I do I can't forget you
Sometimes I wish that I'd never met you
And yet if I should lose you
T'would mean my very life to me
Of all the queens that ever lived I'd choose you
To rule me my Rose Marie

Of all the queens that ever lived I'd choose you
To rule me my Rose Marie...


11 Oct 04 - 11:58 AM (#1294307)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Peace

Smile a little smile for me, Rose Marie, Rose Marie.

YAHOO!


11 Oct 04 - 12:42 PM (#1294343)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha

Ooo, Freda! You are gonna have sooo much fun! Congrats to all!


11 Oct 04 - 12:56 PM (#1294353)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Catherine Jayne

Congrats to Freda and Mum and welcome to the world Rose Marie!


11 Oct 04 - 01:06 PM (#1294365)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie

Welcome to the club, hope you see yours more often than I get to see mine.
Giok


11 Oct 04 - 01:22 PM (#1294388)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Peace

Giok, I HEAR that. Well, if Freda keeps this thread for Rose Marie (which is a lovely name), the young gal will have learned that there are two things on the minds of men: CONGRATULATIONS and MEMORIES.


11 Oct 04 - 02:12 PM (#1294429)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: fat B****rd

Congratulations, welcome, love, best wishes and much happiness from Charlie fB XXXXXX


11 Oct 04 - 03:20 PM (#1294485)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Tannywheeler

If this is your first, welcome to the joyful-joyful-we-adore-thee-club. I start humming/considering that hymn anytime I contemplate one of mine. You aren't going to believe how wonderful -- you thought you loved your child(ren?), but this will amaze -- well, I don't want to spoil the surprise.

Enjoy yourself. It's NOT later than you think. Life is just beginning. Health and rest to Mom. Thorough, quick recovery to all -- and hug/kiss that wonder of the world for all of us.   Tw


11 Oct 04 - 03:29 PM (#1294491)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: GUEST,SueB

How wonderful, well-done to all involved!


11 Oct 04 - 07:50 PM (#1294719)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: kendall

Jacqui here - Congratulations from both of us to Grandma, Mum and Rose Marie. Grandchildren are a complete joy and, without the responsibility, can be enjoyed so much more. I hope that you will be good friends with your granddaughter - it should be a special relationship for both of you.


11 Oct 04 - 08:03 PM (#1294725)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: jaze

Congratulations!


11 Oct 04 - 08:23 PM (#1294743)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Shanghaiceltic

Congratulations Freda, my father always says that being a Grandparent gives you POWER without responsibility.


11 Oct 04 - 08:24 PM (#1294744)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Little Hawk

That's nice, Freda, but poor Chongo has still not added to the primate gene pool. At least, not as far as we know.


11 Oct 04 - 08:50 PM (#1294775)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

thank you so much, everyone! it was an amazing, incredible experience! after 27 hours of truly hard labour, we have all had a very long sleep, including mother and baby. Rosie is truly beautiful, like a little elf with a cap of dark hair and beautifil big dark blue eyes! (may go brown like her father's!). she is now feeding well and is a little delight!

poor chongo, with hands like that, every woman would want you.

Kevin, my father used to sing that song! thanks so much, I've been trying to remember the words, and will now be able to sing the song to her! and yesterday, when she was just 20 mins old, I held her and sang quietly to her for an hour while her mother was recovering.
I am going to the hospital now!

xx freda


11 Oct 04 - 09:52 PM (#1294813)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: CarolC

Congratulations to you, the parents, and to the brand new little human being herself.


12 Oct 04 - 01:58 AM (#1294930)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Mudlark

Congrats, Freda...lovely to read your euphoria! Good health and happiness to all involved.


12 Oct 04 - 02:00 AM (#1294932)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Amergin

whoo hooos! congratulations Freda! Now you can buy her all sorts of noisy toys....and call it revenge!


12 Oct 04 - 03:29 AM (#1294949)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Scooby Doo

Congratulations Freda,
Lots of love from the other side of the water.
Scooby


12 Oct 04 - 06:24 AM (#1295011)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Peter K (Fionn)

"I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing Infant, Mum, and Gran, all the best in the world." What about the guy who did all the work?


12 Oct 04 - 06:57 AM (#1295020)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennieG

Copngratulations!!! You were waiting on the phone call a couple of weeks ago, were you not? That's one reluctant baby.

Cheers (wetting the baby's head is called for, I think)
JennieG


12 Oct 04 - 07:00 AM (#1295025)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Morticia

Congratulations Freda, wonderful news and welcome to the Mudkittens Basket, Rose Marie.


12 Oct 04 - 09:21 AM (#1295137)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sandra in Sydney

Congratulations to another beautiful baby who has popped into the world, and congratulations to her parents, too.

And not forgetting the congratulations due to the white haired, shawl-wearing old grannie who has already started on her new job of babysitting!!

sandra


12 Oct 04 - 09:26 AM (#1295143)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie

Is there a nurse Ratched in the maternity ward?
Giok


12 Oct 04 - 09:31 AM (#1295147)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

thanks again, and even more to all you extra catters who have posted! I got back from another long day at the hospital tonight! how lovely to come and read all these welcome comments!

it has been an intense few days - a truly long and painful labour, followed by a caesarian conducted with an anaesthetic that didnt work, despite three attempts. my daughter has endured an exhausting relentless amount of pain, and today is calm, happy and positive, and very much in love with her little Rosie. Rosie apart from being very tiny and delicate has beautiful pixie ears (from her father) with little pointy peaks on them. I feel a little elf has come to visit!


... white haired, shawl-wearing grannie, but not an old one!


12 Oct 04 - 10:44 AM (#1295213)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: SINSULL

Lucky you! What could be more wonderful tha a prescious, tiny little baby in your arms. Enjoy Granny!


12 Oct 04 - 11:01 AM (#1295226)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennyO

beautiful pixie ears with little pointy peaks on them

Calling Mr Spock - Mr Spock to the waiting room!......................no, that is totally illogical.


12 Oct 04 - 11:09 AM (#1295236)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

I'd rather have Mr Spock than Dr Spock any day!


12 Oct 04 - 11:47 AM (#1295267)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie

Soon the child will start to make elvish noises!
A baby is something that you put things into one end of, and clear up the same but strangely different things from the other end. Babies cannot be fitted with a silencer [muffler]
Giok


12 Oct 04 - 11:56 AM (#1295272)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Ellenpoly

Peter K (Fionn)

You're absolutely right. I was remiss in not mentioning the father, especially if he supplied the pointed elvish ears!

But on the day of birth, with all the sympathetic birth pains he may or may not have had...mum does all the work, and baby does her job as well.

Gran...well, she's where it all began, and everyone wants to keep in her good graces so she'll be an on-call babysitter.

Get some rest now, freda...you're the one who knows best what's down the road!

..xx..e


12 Oct 04 - 12:44 PM (#1295298)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

the baby's father, my son in law victor, was an incredible support to my daughter during the labour. he has a lot going for him, (including pixie ears).


12 Oct 04 - 01:09 PM (#1295324)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha

PICTURES!!!


13 Oct 04 - 02:11 AM (#1295889)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Ellenpoly

I'm sure he was, freda. I couldn't imagine any son-in-law of yours being otherwise.

So, pixy rather than elvish? Ready to explain the subtle difference?

And yes....PICCYS PLEASE!!!


13 Oct 04 - 05:06 AM (#1295983)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Hrothgar

Just remember to give her back when she's wet, freda.


13 Oct 04 - 06:26 AM (#1296013)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Liz the Squeak

'S funny, I could have sworn he was Elvish.....

Enjoy.

LTS


14 Oct 04 - 04:26 AM (#1296720)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie

My invite said Elves, right!

Giok


16 Oct 04 - 01:32 AM (#1298386)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

..pictures are on the way...


24 Oct 04 - 02:27 PM (#1305751)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha

Oh Freda....where are the PICTURES?


25 Oct 04 - 12:23 AM (#1306302)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

thanks for asking, Sorcha, they're with Pene Azul right now, just waiting for him to get time to download on events, along with the 2,000,000 Getaway photos he has to deal with!!!!


26 Oct 04 - 02:57 PM (#1307870)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

you can have a look at Rose Marie in the Mudcat Photos, under Events - Introducing Rose Marie (freda's granddaughter)!

ps my daughter sent that first one to me with the caption "is it your nose?" (hmmm...)


26 Oct 04 - 04:30 PM (#1307942)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha

And she is a little doll!


01 May 08 - 07:13 AM (#2330442)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran! ..again!!
From: freda underhill

hi everyone

I'm very happy to say - I'm a gran AGAIN! my lovely daughter Karala (catter Bugface), and her Dutch-Austrian husband Alex have had a beautiful baby boy, Sam, who was born two weeks ago, a very healthy 4kgs. I'm currently with them in their beautiful home in southern Austria, where I've been helping for the last 7 days. There is now on the alps out the window, grass is green, sun is warm and skies are blue. Tomorrow I'LL go back home, on a rather convoluted trip arriving back on Monday.

Yes, he's beautiful (he seems to have inherited the family Nose) and his big cousin Rosie (now three) is very pleased and looking forward to meeting him later in the year!

love to all

freda


01 May 08 - 07:18 AM (#2330446)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie

Well done Bugface and Alex, and congratulations Granny Freda.
Have a safe trip back home.

Giok


01 May 08 - 07:19 AM (#2330448)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie

Oh and I forgot to say.

Welcome Sam.


G


01 May 08 - 07:43 AM (#2330457)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work

Congratulations Freda - 4kgs is indeed a healthy weight!

LTS


01 May 08 - 08:04 AM (#2330463)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: SINSULL

Happy Birthday Sam! Enjoy, Grannie Underhill.
SINS


01 May 08 - 08:59 AM (#2330508)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: maeve

Good news for all. Enjoy the little 'un and the big 'uns and have a safe trip back home.


01 May 08 - 09:01 AM (#2330510)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: mouldy

Congrats from another new granny - seven weeks old and I haven't met her yet!

Enjoy your lovely (not so) little Sam.

Andrea xx


01 May 08 - 09:07 AM (#2330518)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sandra in Sydney

baby is very cute, but with such a lovely Granny & Mum how could he not be?

sandra (who has pictures!)


01 May 08 - 11:33 AM (#2330659)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

thanks everyone, he is a darling, tiny little thing, growing fast (now 4.4kg two weeks after birth) with a full head of long dark hair and very beautiful. tonight is my last time with him fort a couple of months, so.... off I go!!

freda


01 May 08 - 12:11 PM (#2330687)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: katlaughing

Congrats, Grannie Freda! SO glad you can be there with Sam and his parents! safe trip home and thanks for sharing with us!!

kat


01 May 08 - 08:26 PM (#2331089)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: jacqui.c

Congratulations Freda. We're waiting for pictures ASAP. Grandbabies are an absolute joy.


02 May 08 - 06:40 PM (#2331580)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennieG

Congrats Freda! Lovely to hear the news. Best wishes to the new parents too, and of course to young Sam.

Cheers
JennieG who doesn't have any grandchildren.....but has a grandcat.....


03 May 08 - 05:03 AM (#2331846)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: gnu

Awwww... a babyyyyy! Congrats to you and yours!


08 May 08 - 02:36 AM (#2335465)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill

thanks jacqui, jennieg and gnu - i'm back home now, dejatlagged and back to a computer-impotent home. hope to get set up soon, and will send you some photos then, jacqui!

baby is beautiful, all's well in the world!!

freda


08 May 08 - 04:03 AM (#2335514)
Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sandra in Sydney

have you sent the pics to Joe so everyone can see them?