Rejoice. A New Baby In No.10.

[ladybirder]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10291729/Carrie-gives-birth-second-baby-Boris-Johnson.html

[bednobs]

it wasn't all that long ago that people (including you i notice naomi!) were spreading sourness about another famous baby being born - lilibet

[choux]

For goodness sake. We should be talking about a family. Who would have said of poor Arthur Labingo-Hughes "Can't help but feel sorry for the wee mite with that for a father though." ?

[choux]

Labinjo ^

[naomi24]

bednobs, I beg to differ. I thought Harry and Meghan were very wrong to hijack the name, that's all.

[bednobs]

ok, but all barsel said was about the name too!
i can quite see how it's different when it's you though ;)

[Mamyalynne]

Congratulations Carrie and Boris, welcome to the World little one.

[Lie-in King]

Some happy news, congratulations to the Johnson family.

[naomi24]

bednoibs, //ok, but all barsel said was about the name too!
i can quite see how it's different when it's you though ;) //

You're quite right. It is different when it's me. Lilibet'e name was announced long after the birth - as this child's will be. I didn't make sarcastic comments on the birth of a new baby simply because I'm not the parents' greatest fan. That, in my opinion, is sour.

[bednobs]

they announced the name at the same time they announced she had been born.
On the thread relaying the announcement of the fact she was born https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1754083.html you DID make a sarcastic comment about the name, nothing nice to say, probably because you dont like the parents. Maybe not though. I mean you called it spreading sourness, not me

[Canary42]

Who's the father ?

[Gromit]

And people accuse Boris of poor planning.

Rather astute to make a baby in March, so has to keep the sleaze and cover ups off the front pages for one day.
;-/

[choux]

Too much meanness of spirit on this thread. This little girl was the Johnson's "Rainbow Baby". Have a heart.

[naomi24]

bednobs, I said naming the child Lilibet was cringeworthy - and in my opinion it was. Nothing sarcastic about that.

[barry1010]

I very much dislike the term 'rainbow baby'.

[Barsel]

What does rainbow baby mean, never heard that term?

[Vagus]

It’s a baby born after a miscarriage, still birth, etc.
It refers to a rainbow being the light after a storm.

[Barsel]

Naomi, if you come back and see this, please look at the link I put on @12.34.
It really wasn't meant to be sarcastic or nasty in any way, it was just my sense of humour.
When their first baby was born and they called him Wilfred, I immediately thought of Wilfred Pickles so I just suggested they call the new baby Mabel after Wilfred's wife.
No harm intended.

[Barsel]

Thank you Vagus, I've not heard of that before.

[pat2604]

I think it's quite a new term Barsel. I don't like it for many reasons. It's assumptive that a miscarriage is a disaster. My son would have been called a rainbow baby as would thousands of babies.

[Barsel]

Yes Lottie, I had a miscarriage between my 1st and 2nd babies which would have been 1978 and hadn't heard of it then. perhaps it's a new thing?