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Here, for posterity’s sake, is how I liveblogged my wife’s labour and baby girl’s delivery using Facebook status updates:

September 28

John is timing contractions! 9:36pm

John is finding the iPod perfect for timing contractions. 9:56pm

John is watching his wife updating a Calc spreadsheet during labour. Amazing. 10:28pm

John is realizing that using an iPod to time contractions officially qualifies him as a GeekDad. 10:50pm

John is boiling water (for tea) and resisting the urge to tear up old sheets. 11:08pm

John is off to bed. Maybe Ella will come overnight. 11:14pm

September 29

John is having breakfast and then it’s off to the hospital. Updates from my cellphone when I can. 10:06am

John is at the hospital. We have our room. Everything going well. 12:56pm

John is having lunch. Ella’s birthday could be today or tomorrow. 3:06pm

John is glad Laurie is getting some pain relief and some sleep. Epidurals are great. 8:41pm

September 30

John is a daddy to Ella Faith Bowman, 8 lbs. 3 oz., born at 10:31 last night. 7:46am

John is home with Ella and Laurie and is going to bed. 2:31pm