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I'm sorry, could I have your attention folks?
Just for a moment....
Thanks.

Just to let you know I am the proud and stunned grandmother to a new baby grandson, who was born this aftrnoon, weighing in at a truly respectable 5 kilos-plus-a-bit....
That's a whoppin' eleven pounds, plus.... You'll be glad they opted for a caesarian in the end......

Only three pounds more, and he'd have weighed a stone.....

I dunno about my daughter, but I'm exhausted just thinking about it!!

All's well with everyone!

Thank you.
carry on!! :jumping:
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Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?! :D


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Congratulations, Fede!

Wonderful news! :group:

Much happiness for everyone!
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Congratulations to the happy new parents!
Congratulations to you Fede on your new status as a grandma!
Hope to see some photos soon!
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Congratulations ! ! !

Born from the "side" just like Buddha. :tongue:
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5 kilos!!! That's a very big baby. Congratulations there grandma! :woohoo:
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Ajahn Chah wrote:Our birth and death are just one thing. You can't have one without the other. It's a little funny to see how at a death people are so tearful and sad, and at a birth how happy and delighted. It's delusion. I think if you really want to cry, then it would be better to do so when someone is born. Cry at the root, for if there were no birth, there would be no death. Can you understand this?
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LOL Acinteyyo, that's what I was thinking but I didn't want to dampen anyone's mood.
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Neither do I. It's just that you can't pick up only one side of a coin.
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Congratulations!!!

I have one question though

what the hell was your daughter eating?
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acinteyyo wrote:
Ajahn Chah wrote:Our birth and death are just one thing. You can't have one without the other. It's a little funny to see how at a death people are so tearful and sad, and at a birth how happy and delighted. It's delusion. I think if you really want to cry, then it would be better to do so when someone is born. Cry at the root, for if there were no birth, there would be no death. Can you understand this?
Don't worry, Guy...I realise exactly what Acinteyyo means... and I wholeheartedly agree with him.
I regularly "Take tea with Yama"....
My own dear father is becoming more and more frail, and only today, in the delicatessen-Bistro where I work, a well known client's son came in to tell us of his dying last Sunday...
Life ebbs and flows, in and out.....
As One memorable quotation I remember so chillingly - tet honestly - states:
"When you bear a child in life, what you have done is condemn them to death."

But yes, David.... Born as the Buddha was. I am confident though, that his mother will not go the same way as Maya..... I doubt she has borne a Buddha, so her time is not yet nigh (but I'm keeping tabs on her, just in case!) :smile:

Manapa: I have no idea...this much I know...my daughter has always been blessed with a hearty appetite, but more pertinently, her own father weighed in at 10lbs when he was born, I believe.... so she didn't get her 'appetite' from me! :clap:
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.

Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?! :D


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Cungratulations :smile:
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Congrats to you and yours Fede!

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How wonderful, congratulations Grandma!
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Congratulations, Nana Fede!

Metta,
Retro. :)
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May baby, and mother, and grandmother, all be well and at peace. :heart:
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