14 February 2009 - Antheia's Valentines Baby Boy!!

**Rouge** · February 14th, 2009, 10:59 AM

Congratulations

Welcome earthside baby Orson! Sounds like an amazing birth, can't wait to hear all about it! Enjoy your babymoon Antheia! xxx

**maz** · February 14th, 2009, 11:07 AM

OMG!!! welcome earthside Little man!!!

What a fantastic birth! i cant wait to hear all the details

Enjoy your baby moon babe....

**Mum0809** · February 14th, 2009, 11:12 AM

Congratulations Antheia!!!! Welcome Baby Orson!!!!!

**Isadora** · February 14th, 2009, 11:36 AM

Congratulations, what a special day to welcome your new bundle!

**ElleJay** · February 14th, 2009, 12:05 PM

Yay! Congrats on the birth of Orson!

**AliBaby** · February 14th, 2009, 12:30 PM

Congratulations!

I bet there is a lot of love in your little family today! Enjoy those newborn cuddles!

**Arimeh** · February 14th, 2009, 12:33 PM

Congratulations!!!!

Well done honey!!

Welcome to the world little man. xx

**MistyFying** · February 14th, 2009, 12:36 PM

Congratulations Antheia. I'm happy Orson has arrived safe and sound. Enjoy celebrating his new life

**alioops** · February 14th, 2009, 12:36 PM

Congrats hun!! You couldn't have a more romantic birth if you tried

At home in the bath on Valentines Day, early enough in the morning to still have a date tonight if you wanted to!!

Welcome Earthside Orson!!!

**Mother Goose** · February 14th, 2009, 12:48 PM

Congratulations! Well done! What a great name!

**Danni** · February 14th, 2009, 01:37 PM

ETA: more info
Orson was born in caul. ( I had to ask what this was. It means he was still born in the bag of water). Midwife and doula missed it as it all happened so quick. He is feeding beautifully and Tegan is sore and in shock.

Orson was born totally unassisted. Midwives didn't arrive until 2 hours after he was born. She says she went from nothing to transition in less than an hour and he came out in 5 mins. She said she spent the rest of the time trying not to push!

**Rouge** · February 14th, 2009, 01:39 PM

Thats awesome! And very good luck. Old legends believe a child born in the caul is the luckiest child.

ETA:

Legend

In medieval times the appearance of a caul on a newborn baby was seen as a sign of good luck.[1] It was considered an omen that the child was destined for greatness. Gathering the caul onto paper was considered an important tradition of childbirth: the midwife would rub a sheet of paper across the baby's head and face, pressing the material of the caul onto the paper. The caul would then be presented to the mother, to be kept as an heirloom. Some Early Modern European traditions linked being born with the caul to the ability to defend fertility and the harvest against the forces of evil, particularly witches and sorcerers.[2]
Over the course of European history, a popular legend developed suggesting that possession of a baby's caul would give its bearer good luck and protect that person from death by drowning. Cauls were therefore highly prized by sailors. Medieval women often sold these cauls to sailors for large sums of money; a caul was regarded as a valuable talisman.[citation needed]
I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain. Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss ... and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings. I was present myself, and I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of myself being disposed of in that way. The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket.... It is a fact which will be long remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at ninety-two. (Charles ****ens, David Copperfield)
In the film Oscar and Lucinda, Oscar is presented, by his estranged father, with the caul that was upon his head at birth. Oscar has a phobia of the ocean and of water in general, linked to the death of his mother when he was a child. He carries this caul with him until he dies, ironically, by drowning.
In the play Gypsy, Mama Rose tells Louise (Gypsy Rose Lee): "You were born with a caul. That means you got powers to read palms and tell fortunes - and wonderful things are gonna happen to you."
Other legends also developed. One popular legend went that a caulbearer would be able to see the future or have dreams that come to pass.
Negative associations with the birth caul are rare, but in several European countries a child being born with a caul was a sign that the child may become a vampire. As a preventative measure, the caul was removed before the child was able to eat any of it, and then it was destroyed.
The most common portent of good luck in recent centuries is that the baby born with a caul will never drown, the second most common myth is from Scotland and that believes the child will be fey, or psychic. Another British meaning is that the child will travel its entire life and never tire.
Also an important myth hails from ancient Egypt, and that story claims the newborn baby is destined for the cult of Isis, again a mystically inclined fate.
Also if twins are both born with cauls it meant that they are marked by an angel and their souls are shielded.

**Inanna** · February 14th, 2009, 01:51 PM

Aaah the Goddess's are watching him! It's very very auspicious to be born in a caul.
Precipitous labours are very very hard work - my love to you Teagan and what an amazing Birthing Goddess you are. Rest up in the arms of those that love you - I have tears as I read the message. Sending you a cyber pot of chicken soup!