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Aah! Mr T nous a bien fait rigoler ce weekend... Sans commentaire.

and 7 months!

The last 3 weeks have been amazing in terms of change.
first 2 teeth meant lots of tough nights
crawling is now the way to go
seating on my own is easy-weasy!

6 months spring time

Theo's discovering spring, grass, and cowboy boots. And he clearly likes it...

Theo through the lens

I always imagined that I would do some nice shots of Theo when time would allow. Well it was just a matter of taking the time. Sunday we setup the environment to do some cool close-up shots that he will certainly love on his wedding day 20 or 30 years down the road.

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Theo - 2 months

Here we go... Already 2 months and a week. The little monkey has grown quite a bit and is entertaining us so much.

In fact he just loves moving his arms and making faces and smile at us.

And on week 9 and 4 days, he broke the 12 pounds barrier!

here you go for the last serie of pics

Theo - 5-8 weeks

Here comes another serie of pictures from our little stinker!
Theo is doing great. in the last 3 weeks, he definitly learned to look steadily, to smile, and to become even more cheeky and making tons of faces, which we love!.

Also he got his first cold but that didn't last long... just a couple days. And he got to see the queen's house (from the outside).

At 7 weeks, he weights 5kgs or 11lbs and is 59cm tall or 1'11".

Theo - 4 weeks

Another exciting week for Theo. Almost a month old. It's amazing how much he progresses each week.

Happy Thanksgiving to his grand parents in Megargel Texas!!! Yii-aaahh

He just loves to take baths and to ride in the car. He's also spending a lot of good time in his amusement park (Thanks Charlotte!).

The experience with the reusable nappies is quite good. Theo has them mostly during the day and overnight we still use the throwable ones... piece of mind at night is good!

What else. On Tuesday the health visitor came by and weighted him at 4.140kgs so he is growing nicely. Still a bit of a shrimp for his size... but that's daddy's genes!

Theo - 3 weeks

Time flies... that's for sure. We're already way into week 3 and so here is the new gallery of Theo.

This week lots of 'Premieres' again
-crazy haircut
-down to West Norwood Cemetery
-Petite snooze with Lenny
-new friends

Theo - 2 weeks

Here we go... already 2 weeks gone by... Theo's second week birthday!

To celebrate, Theo's adventures got pretty full in the last few days:
1-He got to see auntie Rachael and tonton Laurent
2-Then he got to go outside in the park for the first time
3-Then he got to see his uncle Damien and tata Karine!
4-He met his little friend Luca, 3 weeks older than him for the first time
5-He finally got clothes to his size thanks to Luca, Dan and Ellie, as Luca doesn't need them anymore
6-He tried formula milk and pouh... doesn't do good (except for allowing mummy to sleep!)

What a second week!

Theo - 1 week

Already 1 week old... time flies... well to celebrate, Pachou came specially to London from Paris for the day to see his grand son!.

Day 6 - Going home!

Day 6... Almost a week old!

Theo is discharged from the hospital. Things got faster and so the nurses told us that if Georgia was feeling ok, Theo could be brought home today. So we decided we would go!

Daddy took a 'petite' snooze with Theo while waiting for the paper work to be completed... Resemblance?



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Day 5 - Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel

Day 5 was fantastic because they started telling us about when Theo might come out. The timeline was based on his ability to feed at least every 4 hours.

Looking at the progress he was making, we started planning for him to come out Wednesday for his first week birthday!

Georgia is becoming more expert at breastfeeding. Theo and her seemed to have done it all their life. We heard stories where it takes days to weeks to adjust but with Theo, this is pretty much established practice after day 1!

I came home early on Monday after saying hi to Theo because we had the carpet getting installed in our new loft. It was supposed to be done the day Theo was born!.

As one of my friends rightfully said, when you are in your beyond your twenties, there aren't so many first times. Maybe once a week if you are lucky, once a month otherwise...

But with a baby, you reenter the world of "first times" many times a day. This is so magic.

So for Day 5, my first times were:
-first time I left Theo and wasn't going to see him for an entire day
-first time he grinned to me

Monday, I spent the day catching up with things at home and started getting ready for my investor meeting the next morning. The team had done a fantastic job of preparing the content and so I just had to finalize it.

Around noon, flowers were delivered from my previous company, Tideway. Thanks a lot, they look amazing and made Georgia feel very welcomed when she came home.

By 7pm I wend back to the hospital to see Theo for the evening and came home around midnight...


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Day 4 - Learning to know Theo

On day 4, we started to learn our parenting skills... changing nappies, breastfeeding, cleaning, etc...

Day 4 is also when the haematoma disappeared. So amazing how quickly he recovered from something that would have taken weeks to resorb in an adult!

Day 4 was also the last night I spend camping in Georgia's room in the hospital. By the evening I started thinking again about life outside, the startup I've just joined, and the investor meeting we had schedule for Tuesday to raise money for the company.

Good night Theo.


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Day 3 - Out of the aquarium

Day 3 was magic.

When I went to the 4th floor to see Theo in the morning, I discovered they moved him out of the incubator and into a normal cot! Finally we could start hugging him...

His auntie Quitterie came with his grand mother Manou. Very special moments.

Pics are worth a thousand words...


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Day 2 - fishbowl diaries

Day 2 started like Day 1... Except that today the nurses tried to feed him more regularly and setup a tube through his nose to his stomach to delivery the previous milk directly where needed with the minimum effort from Theo so that all of his energy can be spent to heal.

By noon, we enjoyed Theo in the fishbowl for the rest of the day...

We got a few visitors, Dan and Eleanor with their gorgeous new born Luca, who will very surely become Theo's friend very soon.

My sister in law also came by with an state of the art camping mattress so that I can stay overnight more comfortably... Rachael, you're the best!

While I was home again, Georgia happened to be with Theo when his nappies were being changed. As he got cleaned, the little monkey decided it was time to wee and sprinkled the whole incubator. So the midwife had to take him out and gave him to Georgia who got to hold him for the first time after birth... I missed this moment, I was so dead jealous of her!

We finished the day with Theo, until midnight, enjoying every eyelid flutter or shake in his tiny hands... from the other side of the bowl...

During the time in the new born unit, name the Fred Still unit, we also learned about who fortunate we are. Around Theo are premature babys, as early as 24 weeks (that's 16 weeks before term... less than a kilo... Theo was 3.4kgs at birth). Their parents have to wait several months before seeing their baby home. Premature babies also usually suffer from various problems due to the fact that their organs aren't properly formed.

So having Theo at term and knowing that he is relatively healthy, only with a facture is such a blessing.

It is also a blessing to have known all the fantastic doctors, nurses and midwife. They are truly inspiring people.


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Day 1 - Life in the fishbowl

On day 1, we discovered Theo in the High Dependency Unit inside the incubator.

This was heart breaking but also we felt he was so closely monitored that this was very conforting at the same time.

The people taking care of him were simply amazing. We were so lucky to be so close to The Fred Still Unit so that Theo could be taken care of the best way possible.

Day 0 - A tough start

Well it turned out that the delivery was more complicated than expected, because the little Theo was hook with a very short umbilical cord. And so every time Mummy was pushing him out, he was holding back on the cord like Tarzan to stay inside...

The doctors thought it was time to put an end to the game and had to bring the heavy machinery to get Theo out. The umbilical cord was to short and so it snapped when Theo was taken out of Georgia. In the process, the forceps unfortunately fractured his skull and it resulted in a very scary, big and visible blood ematoma in the back of his brain... So 10 min after birth, he was rushed to the new born observation unit to scan his little head and check on the damage.

There are no words to describe the distress of Georgia and me, being separated 10 minutes after birth, not knowing what was happening with Theo who was clearly in huge pain. I went with Theo, while Georgia was being taken care of by the midwives.

Theo looked very bruised by the forceps, with puffy eyes and an elongated skull typical of this type of delivery. He had a huge lump of blood in the back of his head. Still cover in blood, it was really hard to call everyone and send out the news of Theo's arrival.



By 11:30am, the doctors said that the ematoma was external to the brain and the skull and as we had recovered a little bit for the 40 hours of no sleep, we called our parents to give them the news.

By 12pm, the doctors told me that they were going to do a CT scan to make sure nothing happened inside the brain.

Meanwhile Georgia was resting. Unable to move due to the epidural, she couldn't go see Theo. So I was going back and forth to the new born unit with the camera and taking videos of Theo to show to Georgia her son so that she can be reassured and start creating a bond with Theo.

By 4pm we finally got some CT scan results and we learned that the external ematoma was related to the fracture but that there were also 2 small subdural ematomas (the membrane that envelops the brain under the skull. We didn't understand what that meant, whether Theo would be ok or not. He was in pain, still covered in blood as the doctors didn't want to touch his head and clean him to avoid any further complications.

By 5pm, Georgia has recovered a bit and was able to be wheeled to the new born unit to finally see Theo for the first time after the traumatic delivery. This was a very emotional moment for the three of us to be finally reunited like a family for the first time. But Theo couldn't be hugged or touched. Georgia was still very weak and I brought her back to her shared room.

Earlier in the day, learning the news, my mum jumped on the first train from Paris and arrived at 6pm in London. She arrived exhausted as just like us, she couldn't sleep the previous night. She was awaiting the news all night...
So when she got to the hospital, we went to say hi to Georgia and then straight to Theo and introduce him to his grandmother... What a moment!

After an adventure that started 48h ago, it was time to feed the parents and take some rest. I went home with mum, and we had an amazing diner, celebrating with the best ever glass of champagne in my whole life... The sparkling bubbles slowly going down my throat were heaven!

I thought this was it for this long 48h day.. So I decided it was time to announce the news a bit more widely. As I finished writing the announcement around 11:30pm, I received a call from the hospital to tell me that Theo was transfered to the High Dependency Unit, a place where they can monitor him much more intensively... No real explanation, just that they wanted to monitor him more closely... What was happening... Should I send the email or wait?

I decided to have faith in Theo and the doctors, sent the announcement and crashed in bed out of exhaustion.

Theo is born!!!

Après deux jours d'efforts marathoniens, Georgia a comblé son mari avec le plus beau des cadeaux du monde. Théo, 3.41kgs, est né ce matin du 29 Octobre à 8:21 à Londres. Avec de tres grands pieds, la sage femme lui trouve une certaine ressemblance paternelle!!!
Georgia et Théo se reposent et recuperent.

After 2 days of marathonian effort, Georgia gave the most beautiful gift of the world to her husband. Theo, 7lb 08oz, was born this morning at 8:21 in London. With huge feet, the midwife thought he might look like his very proud daddy!!!
Both Georgia and Theo are now recovering and resting!

it's a boy... well not quite yet..

It is quite amazing what they can achieve those days with the new scanners. We got lucky as our hospital just received the new 4D movie scanners that literally make movies of the baby.

Well I'm not sure how nice the little monkey looks like, but I have to say the experience is just amazing.!!!

12 weeks 4 jours. Already 61.9mm

Second scan yesterday. the adventure continues and takes shape. The little one almost doubled in size in the last 3 weeks. 2 legs, 2 arms, a brain and a profile that doesn't let think he's inherited his dad's nose... This was really cool. We could tape the scan so here is a short part of it below.