12,000 Godparents for Baby Archer!!
Last week the 12000 plus members of the Archers Appreciation facebook group (who raised over £100,000 last year for Refuge) were faced with an off
topic conundrum - a picture and a question.
'Right you lot, how do I get my baby out? I can't breathe or
see my feet and I'm impatient to meet him!"
Many of us made suggestions, lewd and otherwise, from our
experiences; and apparently the pineapple worked. Joanna was off to hospital
.... but then got sent home as nothing much was happening.
She had contractions most of the night and lots of us
chatted to her on another thread in the group - and when she went back to
hospital we ended up telling each other our 'birth stories' - big babies,
enormous babies, emergency Caesarians, babies born with no time to get to the
hospital , etc etc.... all the while
holding our breath to hear the news.
She had already told us that we had provided so much
entertainment for her that all 12000 of us were going to be godparents ... but
we weren't expecting that she would name him after us! .
But later that day
she posted this :
'So this happened! Daniel Thomas Archer Bugler was born at
8.57 this morning. We've called him Archer after you wonderful lot who have
given me so much joy and support over the last few days.
I arrived at hospital at 8.15 in a bit of a panic after some
traffic issues, bellowing a crazy leonine roar, 9cm dilated and ready to go! He
has been born on his due date and is totally perfect. I had no time for pain
relief so I'm all clear headed and begging to be allowed home. The docs are a
bit grumpy about that as my waters broke so long ago there is chance of
infection. I'll persuade them! He was 8 lb 8.5 oz. who won the sweepstake?
As you can see, fella is very tired after a hard morning so
he's having a little lie down!
Thank you all so very much for being supportive, funny and
amazing. Love you to bits. And what a lucky boy to have 12,000 godparents xxx'
Joanna and her husband are very happy to have their news broadcast far and wide.
And here is Baby Archer...
© Fiona Frank and Andrea Fisher de Cuba Feb 2017
fionafrank at gmail dot com
