I wasn’t doing a post on this but an email from the hubby of one of my mates changed my mind. He had written to me to say his wife, one of my closest friends since college, has given birth to their daughter on Jan 8. The previous day, I had spoken to the dazed husband of a blogging-and-real life buddy who had given birth to their daughter on Jan 8th as well.

So my heart is full of baby girls being born now and as I saw the pix of one of them, looking pink and displaying a very nice pair of lungs, I couldn’t help but go “awww!” and in true blogging style, write about it!

What is it about babies that make us go all soft and mushy inside? So helpless and demanding, they take over everything – most of all, your heart. It is so nice to see my no-nonsense mate become a mum – she has always been one of the most steady souls, with a wickedly cynical side. Even though her daughter took her own sweet time to arrive (she was almost a week late), my mate didn’t dissolved into a puddle of nerves. She was calm and like “hundreds of women go through it everyday – I reckon I shall be alright. No point in getting nervy now.” Oh how I envy you, R!

She’s the third of my closest pals to take the plunge into motherhood and with everyone, I am awed all over again. To see the girls I cavorted about town with babies in their arms is like a jolt! Though I was the first of us to have a child, I was too busy doing other things to look at the bigger picture. But now I see it and I cannot help being amazed at this giant step we are all so casually taking!

So welcome to the world, Baby K and Baby A. I cannot wait to meet you and get to know you.

What a lovely, lovely news to start my day off – I feel like I could do no wrong now. Hopefully that’ll mean I’ll ace the exams tomorrow!

• International Women’s Day: All hail these two women!
• Unbelievable!
• 7 years – who’d've thunk it?
• From the mouth of babes….
• Repressed Sex
• Seasons greetings & Blog Holiday
• Christmas gifts that can make a difference
• Immigration, Britain and me!
• Immigration, Britain and me!
• Taxman Loses Our Child Benefit Records