Baby Oliver

**cooneyr** · 13th April 2010, 07:50

Hi All. After 6 years of trying, 9 months of preparing and 40 hours of labour our baby boy Oliver arrived. We are currently having the fun and games that all new parents have but we are doing well. He's been promised a bike as soon as he is big enough

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Cheers Ryan

**FJRider** · 13th April 2010, 07:54

Congratulations ... he's a cutie ...

**Mrs Busa Pete** · 13th April 2010, 07:56

Congratulation he is very lovely. You have many years of fun and happiness to come.

**Quasi** · 13th April 2010, 08:04

well done - thats a damm fine looking wee lad you have made yourselves there. You have got a lifetime of fun ahead of you.

**Monstaman** · 13th April 2010, 08:08

Well done Ryan, great wee fingers for getting those sockets into bastid places!!

**Crisis management** · 13th April 2010, 08:28

Congratulations Ryan & Mrs Cooney, and welcome to the enjoyable life of parenthood, just remember, keep breathing.......

**marks** · 13th April 2010, 08:28

Congrats to you and your wife

40 hour labour??? - that must have been a bastid

**CrazyFrog** · 13th April 2010, 08:50

Good on ya Ryan, welcome to our world!. Hope the lil' fella is sleeping/feeding/pooing well, and you guys are managing to get enough sleep.
Your future riding over the next year or two will be about quality, not quantity, when Mrs Cooney say's "you need to go for a ride", don't turn the opportunity down!

Cheers, CF

**chanceyy** · 13th April 2010, 09:28

congrats guys, how your life has now changed and it will be more richer

**dino3310** · 13th April 2010, 09:33

congrats mate, all the best to you and mumsy and offcourse little olly

**NordieBoy** · 13th April 2010, 09:35

Originally Posted by marks

- that must have been a bastid

Nooo....

They're married.

To each other...

Sooo... Has he been on Griffon yet?

**Transalper** · 13th April 2010, 09:46

Well done, your absence from the site for the last 4 or so days was noted.

**cooneyr** · 13th April 2010, 09:53

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

....Sooo... Has he been on Griffon yet?

LOL was thinking about the pannier shot this morning. Might get into just a little bit of trouble at this stage. Still trying to catch up on sleep, get the house sorted etc. Only came home yesterday.

The length of labour is a hotly debated topic in obstetric circiles. We were 40 hours from first real contractions to birth but only 16 hours from beginning of active labour to birth. Many midwives etc consider labour to be from active labour to birth only but its a bitch to be told that when you have just spent 24 hours in latent labour not being able to sleep and having contractions every 20 mins. My mothers an old skool midwife (64 now) and gets really pissy at other midwives who tell their clients that they are not in labour even though they have been at it for some time. I can see her point cause even the latent labour is a lot of work.

The other thing I want to say to explain things a little more - Ollie is a IVF baby hence the 6 years to conceive. We had all but given up on babies which is why we bought the Super Tenere and then the KTM 950 Adventure as distractions as it was a pretty tough time for us. If anybody out there is reading this and is having similar trouble the one thing you really have to keep in mind is "No regrets". Dont do anything you will regret in 2 years or even 30 years. The bikes were a good distraction and we almost gave up, but trying to imagine how we would feel when we were 60 if we had not done IVF kept us thinking we must do it even if it is hard. The emotional roller coaster than we went through was very tough. Still sitting here right now with Ollie sleeping on my chest is awesome.