Huzzah!
Welcome, Anya!
Congrats to the TokyoFamily! She’s beautiful.
Congratulations!!! The pictures are beautiful, your little girl is beautiful, Anya-Mom is beautiful (and tired) and I wish you and your family all the joy in the world.
Take good care of your girls, TP. 
Wow, look what you guys made! She’s adorable. Congratulations to you both!
Congratulations! She’s adorable!
Many blessing to your growing family. Congrats!
Gorgeous!
“Would the father like to hold the baby?” naively asks the woman in white. First things first. After the checkup, and all is fine. After the mother is recovered, Anya is here. Just right away, she takes to the breast. Hungry and healthy and healthy and hungry. She drinks! She rests. She sucks again and again, until exhausted with the work, she falls asleep, a few hours into this world.
“Would the father like to hold the baby?” asks the nurse. No, the father does not just want to hold the baby, the father wants to cuddle her forever. Never let her go. Never lose her from his sight. If he holds her hard enough, long enough, she will be real. No, she already is real, here in his arms.
Fingers tingle, and the chest shakes. This is how to love a child. born to live. This is how to hold a child who can be held.
She cries, and I laugh. So sweet to hear your child’s cries. So sweet to hear your child’s sighs.
Ten fingers and ten toes. Healthy lungs and a beautiful nose. She lives! She cries! She kicks and she sleeps. She’s a baby, a healthy living baby. She’ll stay. She’ll be with us.
How many nights did I wait for her cry? How many days did I listen for her laugh?
A girl. My girl. Our girl. The mind spins. She is here. She’s healthy. She’ll live.
“Would the father like to hold the baby?” asks this, a new nurse, but not the second one, who knew us from our last stay. She knows. She knows that this father will never let go.
Aw, dang it, you just made me cry.
She is absolutely gorgeous, and I know she will have the happiest, most loving life in the universe.
:: must not cry at work ::
Felicidades!!
Congratulations! She’s beautiful and strong, and with you and the missus as her parents, she will be anything she wants to be.
Congratulations! All the best to you, your wife and wonderful baby.
Dagnabbit, Tokyo, you made me cry. Beautiful baby girl, beautiful mama and proud papa.
Wonderful family. And how wonderful and bittersweet that one of the nurses gets to share with you this story as well as the last one.
So glad for you and yours. Welcome Anya!
To your wonderful girl-child, I give the blessing expressed by Ben Okri, in his stunning and extraordinary book “The Famished Road”:
Congratulations!! 
CONGRATULATIONS!
Welcome Anya and best wishes for all three of you.
Thank you for the pictures. She’s a cutie.
:Crying:
She’s so beautiful. You’re all so beautiful!
What a darling family! On behalf of the many (many!) SDMB lurkers who have been following Beta-chan’s saga with entirely too much emotional investment… HOORAY!
Weft
Congratulations!