Our beautiful daughter
Claudia Rosalind
Rogerson McHarg
was born at 3am on August 6th 1998.
Weight 3.195 kg (7oz 0.8 lbs)
Length 49 cms; Head Circumference 36 cms

Smiles from the pram - late October 1998 at the Beamish Outdoor Museum near Newcastle, England

Melbourne Central - December 1, 2001. Download a jigsaw of this image (300k executable file) (added 21 December 2001)

More about Claudia:

• See the earlier (pregnancy) web page
• See more pictures!!!

Details Details Details ...

• Read Fraser's description of the birth
• The first month
• The second month
• Claudi's Grand Adventure - our trip to England with a 7 week old baby
  • Part 1 - London to Dover
  • Part 2 - Roaming the South Coast
  • Part 3 - Bristol and Beyond (Finally added 11/01/2000!)
  • Part 4 - A Little Bit of Yorkshire (Finally added 11/01/2000!)
  • Part 5 - Yorkshire and Home - coming soon
• [big gap which will one day be filled in]
• November 1999 Update (15 months old) - written to accompany a home video
• December 1999 Notes for babysitters (16 months old)
• January 2000 Update (17 months old) - written after 3 1/2 week break from creche
• March 2000 Notes for babysitters (19 months old)
• October 2000 Update (26 months old) - letters to Auntie about Claudi's linguistic & cognitive skills
• May 2001 Photo Gallery (photos from January to March 2001) (Claudi is now 33 months old)
• June 2001 Photo Gallery (photos March to May 2001)
• August 2001 - 3rd birthday Photo Gallery
• More August 2001
• August (Grandad's 70th birthday) through October 2001
• October through December 2001
• Melbourne Museum: June 02, 2002 (added 03 June 2002)

Other Links we Like

• The Interactive Pregnancy Calendar shows the stages of the pregnancy - wow!
• Websites of People Due in August 1998 (like us!)
• It's Just Another Baby ... or is it? Follow first-time father Chris Rywalt & his wife Dawn through their first pregnancy. The best pregnancy resource on the Net
• August '98 list members will be familiar with Bob Berry's The Baby Project - which I highly recommend.
• While we're on the subject of dads, John Scalzi is a stay-at-home dad who writes a weekly column - The Daddy Track - about life with baby Athena.
• Will baby be a boy or a girl? We asked Dr Jeanie not to tell, but the Gender Determination Interactive Test got it right!
• Fertility UK have tips to help you monitor your fertility. It's interesting (if at times somewhat icky) stuff.
• Hopefully not something we will need for a while yet, the Application for Permission to Date My Daughter is good for a laugh - but will we still be laughing in 15 years' time??? Fraser is glad he didn't have to fill in one of these!