What a week....

[becslb]

Congratulations! He is beautiful!

[pipscariad]

Lovely news! Many congratulations, and welcome to the world little man

[dexterdoglancashire]

Congratulations to you all. He's a reet little smasher!
Hugs from me and big wet licks and tail wags from Dexter.

[Comfreyfan]

Congratulations to you all on Evan Samuel's safe arrival, hope you're all home soon x

[Nicos]

.....lovely news!

[jogette]

Congratulations to you and Mrs D. He is gorgeous!!

[kirsty b]

Congrats to you all, hope Mrs D is getting some rest.

He's a handsome chap, love the name

[mrdinkle]

Thank you all so much for your kind messages. I have read them all to Mrs D, who is trying to rest between feeds and she sends her thanks.

Both mum and baby are home - the hospital offered discharge when he was less than 24 hours old. We held off until mum was comfortable feeding, though the extended stay made mum keen to leave asap and return to home comforts.

He had his 72 hour weigh this afternoon and he has only lost 1% of his birth weight so things must be ok in the feeding dept!

Here is a bonus pic, note the outfit is 0 month - everything swamps the little one at the moment.

Mr D the cat is a bit miffed at the moment, keeping a low profile. We are doing our best to treat him just as before and he has had some treats to soften the impact of the new arrival. I won't remove him from the avatar just yet - he sometimes reads the vine over my shoulder!

[mrdinkle]

A quick note about the name;

Evan - after Mrs D's deceased and much loved grandpa
Samuel - for my lovely niece Sammy who was taken by leukaemia aged 14

If he turns out a fraction as lovely as them two we'll be extremely proud parents.