The greatest of congratulations to all of you.

Well, that made me teary.

Awwww, yay! Congratulations and best wishes to the family!

A very long SIGH....

CONGRATS!

Yahoo! Welcome to the world, baby girl!

CONGRATS!!! Tis the season for babies. 2 good friends of mine also just gave birth.

"a baby girl with guaranteed impeccable taste and tremendous organizational skills"

unfortunately, this girl is destined for a cluttered, country styled home!

Holy schmoley! 50 hours...poor SK!

Congrats to both of you!

I'm teary, too, Joan A. Tears of joy and delight and warmth! All the best to you, and your sweetie-one. And I *knew* she'd be a girl, I just knew it!! Hope the three of you can get some rest now. Warmth and joy to you!

and baby makes three..... in my (fill in the perfect color) heaven. we are all so pleased for you.

50 hours?!?!? I worship at Sarah-Kate's alter. Much congratulations; this will prove to be the happiest day of your lives (until number 2 arrives).

I am very into music (and very sappy) and when my own precious daughter was born one song really hit home with me, I am including the words as I;m sure it will ressonate with you as well:

"SHOW ME" by The Pretenders (it's about the birth of Chrissy hynde's own first daughter)

Show me the meaning of the word
Show me the meaning of the word
'Cause I've heard so much about it
They say, "Hey, you can't live without it"

Welcome to the human race
With its wars, disease and brutality
You with your innocence and grace
Restore some pride and dignity
To a world in decline

Welcome to a special place
In a heart of stone that's cold and gray
You with your angel face
Keep the despair at bay
Send it away, and

Show me the meaning of the word
Show me the meaning of the word
'Cause I've heard so much about it
I don't want to live without it
I don't want to live without it
Oh, I want love
I want love
I want love

Welcome here from outer space
The Milky Way is still in your eyes
You found yourself a hopeless case
One that's seeking perfection on earth
That's some kind of rebirth, so

Show me the meaning of the word
Show me the meaning of the word
'Cause I've heard so much about it
Don't make me live without it
Oh, love
I want love
I want
Love
I want love

should we take above pics literally and cheer three times? :-)

wow! 50 hours! congratulations!

welcome to the world, little one!

Que milagre! Blessings and much joy and huge congratulations upon all three of you! [And what a marvelous illustration of the news -- thank you, Jill!]

Sara Kate, 50 hours is a record-breaking feat of endurance and strength; brava. And no, you won't hurt forever...just for the next while. Sleep as much as you can, as often as you can. All the baby books recommend that you sleep when the baby sleeps, which I thought was dumb advice -- but boy, they were right. The secret is to be as gentle with yourself as you are with Baby Girl. [and like you need more advice, esp. from a stranger? I'll shut up now!]

Congratulations!

(And profound sympathy to SK for enduring the 50 hours it took.)

You'll be such fun parents!

Let's break out the champagne!

Hardiest of congratulations to all!!! :)

Congratulations...I think that the 3 cheers are definitely in order!

Congratulations! We are so happy for you.

Congrats!!!!

-k

Congrats you guys!!!!!!! Welcome to the world baby girl!
Unbelievable labor SK!

A well balanced Libra! Congratulations.

CONGRATS! Great timing too with the construction 99% done. Much health and happiness to the threesome.

Health and happiness to the new family! I wouldn't be so sure about organizational skills or anything else Kids and pets have a way of asserting their own individuality. We can be sure she will be wonderful. Hope to find you on a playground some fine furture day when Mimi Kate comes to town.

CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!

Happy new girl! Wow, 50 hours, damn!

May you all be happy healthy and wise.

Good luck!

Congratulations! I am so relieved that all is well! Thanks for letting us know Jill!

MAZEL TOV!
And welcome to the world, Ms. Gillingham-Ryan, :)

Many congratulations and every best wish to you all!

In certain cultures in the northern part of india - it is symbolic to touch the feet of the person in adoration.

SK , I touch your feet in adoration.

warm wishes and happy congrats!

... and while I'm getting choked up over your happy news, this Stevie Wonder song is running through my head:

Isn't she lovely - isn't she wonderful
Isn't she precious - less than one minute old
I never thought through love we'd be
Making one as lovely as she
But isn't she lovely, made from love

Isn't she pretty - truly the angels' best
Boy, I'm so happy - We have been heaven blessed
I can't believe what God has done
through us he's given life to one
But isn't she lovely, made from love

Congratulations!!!!! That's wonderful news!

Congratulations - we send you our very warmest wishes and hearty congratulations from London.
We'll raise a glass for the three of you tonight!

Lots of love from Mairi and Hugh

OH MY GOD - CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS FAMILY AND AREN'T YOU A LUCKY LITTLE GIRL TO HAVE THESE PARENTS.

JOY, JOY, JOY

We love you guys--all three of you!

Wishing you and your family all good thoughts and looking foward to learning the baby's name. Hope SK is doing well.

congrats on the new baby girl!!

Best wishes on the bundle of joy and the newly renovated home

Mazel tov :)

Congratulations!

"In certain cultures in the northern part of india - it is symbolic to touch the feet of the person in adoration.

SK , I touch your feet in adoration.

Posted by from Bombay at 09/28/06 12:30 PM "

Oh my, this brought wonderful tears to my eyes. I thought of my mother. SK: I think we all, in our own ways, touch your feet in adoration.

Many blessings to all three of you.

And what an exqusite post from "from Bombay".

This is the best way possible to cap off Kid Design Month. Heartiest congratulations!

Bravo! How exciting...have we not yet settled on a name or will she be naming herself i the next few weeks?

Congrats!!
Usually for my friends, I put together a list of historical birthdays, events and holidays - and, Maxwell's blog is a big enough part of my life right now, that I thought it would be nice to share my little tradition. Of course, my selection of events is in no way comprehensive (for births I like to avoid death and destruction) or logical - but rather a bit eclectic.

Holidays: Teacher’s Day in Taiwan.
Random Holiday: Ask a Stupid Question Day

Historical Events on this day:
1066 William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.
1542 Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego, California, United States.
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
1871 Brazil passes law freeing future children of slavery.
1924 Two United States Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.

Birthdays:
551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1571 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1901 Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
1915 Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1934 Brigitte Bardot, French actress

Joy to the three of you.

Congratulations!!!!

In an increasingly insane world thank goodness for babies -- they lift our hopes and make us smile.

Warmest congratulations to you all. I hope the years to come are full of great happiness and health for you all (we know they'll be full of good design!)

Congratulations!

hooray! heartfelt congratulations from the heartland.

Such great new! I wish you could give the gift of sleep to someone.

congratulations!!

grace

Congrats!

Congratulations - 50 hours!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!

50 hours?! Goodness!

Congratulations Sarah Kate and Maxwell!

"...Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."
Khalil GIBRAN
The Prophet, 1923

MANY CONGRATS AND WELCOME TO THE WORLD!!! We are all relieved in such a weird way. Happiness and blessings to all.

Asli

Blessings.

All the best to the brand-new girl and her mom...well, same to her dad.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

i didnt even know that labor could last so long! WOW!

Welcome Little one! Enjoy the World! :-)

Superb news! Congratulations and kudos to both of you for enduring 50 (wow!!) hours of labor.

Paraphrasing Rita Rudner...

50 hours?? I don't even want to do something that feels GOOD for 50 hours!

Congrats!

Mazel Tov!

Congratulations! Wishing the three of you all the best in the coming tender moments together in your beautiful new home. Cheers, Angela

Benvenuta piccina
francesca

Congratulations!! Rest while you can! :)

Mazel Tov!!! Joy and happiness to you both!
Nadine

Oh, such wonderful news! Best wishes as you get to know your little daughter and anticipate your hard won homecoming.

Homer (Simpson, that is) said best:

Woohoo!

Welcome to the planet, Baby Girl G-R!

Heartiest congratulations to the whole family!

Congratulations!
Even I won't be sassy at this moment.

How lovely for the new little one to go home and discover her new home!

Good luck, and good work, SK!

Shilpa

Felicitations from Montreal!

I remember my first girl's 25 hour labour like it was yesterday! Congrats for the bambino, and 'tho your long long long labour & delivery must have been quite baroque you might find (eventually) that it's a cool thing. My 2nd daughter's labour was 2 hrs, but I remember my first's the most fondly, with almost bittersweet nostalgia. (Ok, it's been 10 yrs!!!)

Rest, rest, rest SK. Until at least Christmas! Or your body will seriously rebel...Plus it takes the mind a while to wrap itself around the idea of a baby. Parents are superheroes, in the end.

Congratulations Sara Kate & Maxwell:):):)

Cheers to your new bundle of joy!!!

Contrats- !!!

SO EXCITING! Congratulations on your newly expanded family!

Congratulations and all my best wishes to the three of from Switzerland !

Congrats to the new parents and their new little girl! (Sorry I'm late but I've been stuck away from a computer all morning.)

congratulations!

Congratlations on the new baby! This will be such an interesting thread for her to read some day. All the love is support is so touching!

Aww, yay! Congrats and welcome!

Congratulations!!!

congratulations! 50 hours, wow!

enjoy eachother!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great job SKGR! Someone get her some chocolate!

Congratulations to the entire GR family and their much-anticipated new addition!

Woohoo!

Congratulations, welcome, and whew!

Congratualtions. I cannot believe how much I have been waiting to hear this news. The girl has great timing. Enjoy!

And for those of you that didn't know labor lasted that long, thank your mothers. Mine said she was in labor with me for 4 days! Luckily my first was only 10 hours.

What a tiny little post this is! I have combing the site looking for this, and I see this was posted hours ago, and I couldn't even find it!

Anyway... congratulations!

But seriously... 50 hours? I think that somebody has some SERIOUS jewelry coming to her.

add another congratulations to the list!

Congratulations!!

Heartiest congratulations to the two of you!

Congratulations!

Sleep while you can, don't be afraid to ask for help and enjoy that little one while she is still little.

Just imagine, in about 16 or so years, what this kid might say to her friends about these posts: "they used this old, slow, clunky type of internet-thing"; "they had these things called 'threads'"; "they thought they were strangers, even though they communicated every day."

Great news! Congratulations and welcome to Baby GR!

Felicitaciones!

congratulations!!! woo-hoo!! can't wait for the cross-continental playdates!

congratualtions to all three.

I can't believe Joe C beat me to that quote!!!

Add mine to the list of heartfelt wishes for the littlest blogger.

From womb to NYC studio apartment... highly experienced with small spaces already! :)

Get that baby it's own set of tools stat! :D

Congrats!

Friggin Awsome!

Congrats to you both!

Wow, congrats!

Pixie - this was brilliant (esp. the last):
"Just imagine, in about 16 or so years, what this kid might say to her friends about these posts: "they used this old, slow, clunky type of internet-thing"; "they had these things called 'threads'"; "they thought they were strangers, even though they communicated every day." "

congrats Mom and Dad GR and welcome Baby Girl!

Whoa, get that woman a massage, Maxwell! (I'm not kidding -- it was by far the one thing that helped me feel normal again after my first child.) And warmest congratulations to you both. Now the fun part begins... :)

DITTO that Pixie's comment was brilliant.

For all we know, this newborn might be the one who discovers the new "internet".

Hurray...a baby girl too!
Heartiest Congratulations to the family!!
:)

I'm so happy for the two of you. Congratulations. I think she's a very lucky little girl.

Yay! Glad everyone is doing well.

Clearing a space for her baby mat and getting ready to see you at practice again soon! Great news!!

Congratulations! Wonderful news!

oh wow! congratulations! :)

Congrats to the new parents. Do we know the litlle princess' name?

Congratulations, and thank you for your generousity in all that both of you do, and especially for sharing this with us.

Born on the same day as Caravaggio!

I see a future lighting designer!

YAY YAY YAY!

Oh no, 50 hours.... Will your daughter hear 50 hours for the rest of her life?

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

50 hours! It's a good thing that they say you forget about labor.

Of course, I have to ask, can we see pictures of Baby Girl Gillingham-Ryan?

Kaloo! Kalay! Happy! Happy Day!

love to all of you.

Blessings!!

Congratulations #121. Man, you guys are loved! Such a nice place to start baby girl out.

(And let's just all hope she isn't a natural born slob...)

Many blessings to your family! I'd love to see a picture of her nursery! :)

Here's my best parenting tip so far: if you want to sleep at night, keep the baby in the bed with you. You will feel so much better when you and the babe learn how to nurse lying down and you will get some real sleep after about a month. But, ultimately, do what your gut tells you to do. That's why we keep our baby in the bed even though we swore we wouldn't.

Good luck!!

50 hours? Oh my - my best wishes go out to the whole family. Good taste and good parents - you'd think she picked them out herself.

Can't wait to hear her new name!

Warmest congratulations!

welcome to the world little girl! we've all been waiting to hear all about you.

congratulations to the new parents. take care and enjoy your new family!

Add yet another "congrats" for all three of you!

Welcome to little Miss G-R! May you all be blessed with health and happiness in the days ahead. And long undisturbed naps :)

i think it bodes well for this community that this thread has officially (i think...) surpassed both the Kentucky Wildcat nursery battle and the McMansion Melee in terms of volume.

congratulations again, and may all three of you see many happy days ahead.

Congratulations to the three of you!

Little one, you sure are gonna enjoy your new digs!

i wish you and your family a lifetime of love and laughter!

Congratulations and welcome the world!!

What a joy! Welcome to the world, little one!

Congratulations !!!!

Congrats!!!! a baby girl!!!!!! welcome to the club!!!!

regards,

joel+maria pirela

Blessings to the new family (and a little well-deserved relaxation for SKGR)--congrats!

Yahoo!

Wow, congratulations SKGR and MGR on BGR (Baby Gillingham-Ryan)!!! This is wonderful news!

And a thousand blessings on the fierce warrior woman who braved 50 hours of labour to bring her child into the world! The bond between a mother and a daughter is the most powerful in the world.

and a new chapter in your life begins, best wishes for all three of you.

Congrats on enduring those hours! You'll have quite a story for your baby when she grows up!

Welcome, Baby Gillingham-Ryan! Good thoughts are sent to you and your family from the other side of the planet.

all the very best from Japan,
tina

YAY!!!!!!
Madeleine

Congratulations!!!!!!! 50 hours. Oy.

Congratulations! May your little girl be richly blessed. Enjoy your babymoon!

Huge congrats!!!! Hope that 48 of those hours were prelabor!

Hooray!

I love how this beautiful event in Maxwell and SK's lives has inspired so many ATers to post on this thread. There are many AT names here I don't recognize, but it feels great to know that AT is such a large community, and we've all been waiting breathlessly for the arrival of little Baby G-R.

We're quite an international group!(from Bombay to Montreal to Switzerland and all the points in between). To all the above congratulations I add this heart-felt one from Thailand.

Congrats Maxwell and SK!! You've created something magical ...in your own lives, as well as in ours.

Congratulations on your wonderful news! Best wishes for all the wondeful stuff that lies ahead.

Congrats!!!

Christine/DC, I am glad to see you. I wondered where you were.

Maxwell, Sarah Kate, and baby bird:

Congratulations to you all on your first collaborative design!!!

Congratulations!!!

I have to add my congratulations to the rest -- the best of best wishes to the three of you!

welcome, baby girl! i think you'll find most of the natives are pretty friendly.

Wonderful news, congrats.

simply wonderful. congrats maxwell and sk.

I was out of the country, so I am just learning of the happy news today.

Congratulations!

yay! congratulations!

just had a lovely chinese dinner to celebrate the first birthday of my grandnephew. he has just visited niagara falls and can sign two words:

-- MORE
-- WATERFALL

he giggles like the quadruplets laughing over on YouTube when you say POOF. i mean, he laughs a lot.

babies make the sun rise and set. enjoy.

life is pretty damn good.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5_ARBWKpfA4&mode=related&search=

Congrats!

My heartiest congratulations!
I wish you may have lots of rest and quiet together. This is a magical time....

congrats!!
(+ at risk of terminal mush, to baby SK/MGR, in echoing the lyrical sentiments of Colleen + asli, a most happy "Desiderata..." to you)

YAY! What a lucky baby!!!!!!! congratulations!!!!!!