And I'm the proud father!
(Oh my God, I'm a father)
3,125 kg and 49 cm of pure sweetness... Guys, really, she 's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my live!
And the mother is doing fine. From now on, I'm her biggest fan! All of you fathers out there: call, mail, SMS, what ever, your wife and tell her how much you're still impressed of how she gave birth to your child! Amazing.
I'm so happy...
(I hope i can get this picture posted...)
Nope...
but this should work fine...
Very nice. Congratulations, Mantis.
Congratulations Mantis! She's a little sweetie - look at that hair!
Welcome to the toughest job you'll ever love.
Mantis, congratulations!!! 
You are right about appreciating our wives for giving birth to the little angels!
Another bug! Congratulations, there is nothing more special and nothing like daughters!
Beautiful. Mine is 25, and they just keep that miracle going. Name suggestion: 6120.
By the way, if I told my wife how please I was that she gave birth to MY child she would rip my still-beating heart out of my chest. When we came home from the hospital with Lisa all those years ago, my adoring, loving wife actually turned to me and said, "If you ever hurt my baby, I'll kill you." She still doesn't know where that came from, but I laughed my butt off.
Congratulations, take a million pictures and start a journal - the years go by really fast and you'll want to remember it all.
Hej, congrats! Beginning of a great adventure. All the best,
BluesBot
YEEE HAAAA! Congratulations on the baby girl!
It is amazing what women go through to bring a new life into the world. Welcome to being a proud Papa.
She is absolutely, perfectly precious. It's very sweet to see how happy you are, Mantis. Congratulations to you and your brilliant, brave, courageous, etc...wife!
So many little girls this year!
Congrats...Little girls are fun to raise...Until they reach the age of 15 
Congrats Mantis!
Thanks you all!
Yeah, Eddy, I AM very happy. It just gotta radiate from the screen or something ... (touch the screen, touch the screen...)
That's a funny story, gretschiam! They warned me about women cursing a lot during delivery. But nothing like that happened. In fact she turned her head and kissed me a few times while she was giving birth... (can it get ANY better?!)
Thanks, you all...
Mantis, Congratulations to you and your wife.
In fact she turned her head and kissed me a few times while she was giving birth... (can it get ANY better?
Uh...no. It can get no better.
We did the heefin' and hawin' of Lamaze when my kids were born. I was sitting in the visitor chair in the hospital room before we went into delivery ("we," hah! like what was I going to do?), during a long night of labor. I held my wife's hand and talked encouragingly and heefed and hawed along with her as the contractions came.
Long about 3 a.m. my darling wife seemed to fall asleep, like no more contractions or something. Looking back, I realize this should have alarmed me and sent me running for a nurse. I can only claim I must either have been in fatherhood shock at the moment, or thought contractions COULD stop and start, because I just thought she could get some rest now, and I didn't wake her. And, uh, maybe I drowsed a little in the chair.
About 7 a.m. the doctor came in and asked how things were going. I said "funny thing, Doc, the contractions seemed to stop about 3 hours ago."
Wife barely looked in my direction, opened her eyes to slits, and hissed "You *&&hole."
She NEVER talks like that.
Of course she hadn't been asleep, and the contractions hadn't stopped. And I'm sure I deserved it.
Many congratulations to you and yours, Mantis. This baby business is great stuff!
Congratulations Mantis!
I was talking of IN BETWEEN the contractions, Proteus. DURING contractions we did our fair part of "heefin' and hawin'"
Congrats Mantis!
Good work man! Congratulations on the birth of your daughter.
My wife was fine until we walked into the house, but your wife KISSED you during childbirth? Interested in a swap? I'll through in a beautiful Tennessean and a Fender Princeton Chorus.
Congrats to Ya'll Mantis. Wishing the best for you and family. Enjoy... Don
Congrats Mantis, she's beautiful!
Your next "guitar" will be a shotgun!
I hope you're well-rested, because you won't get much sleep for the next couple of months. Take heart, that will pass. Your daughter is truly the greatest blessing you'll ever have. Best wishes to all three of you!
Late to the party as usual, let me add my heartfelt congratulations to you, Mantis. Your daughter is gorgeous and you are in for one really exciting white-knuckler ride through life from here on out. Daughters are at the same moment both the most precious, and the most trying, person in your life. But, we fathers wouldn't have it any other way, now, would we?
She's a cute'n Mantis. Congrats.
God Bless Lucca your wife and yourself. A child is a blessing. a girl child all the more, and your right,it's a good thing to love with your wife, I'm in love with mine, but even so, you will find and even finer shared love for your child. God Bless all three of you.
