Beautiful !
Congratulations to the parents, and welcome Tracy!
The word congratulations applies to your family of course, but also
typifies the tradition here in France.
Usually fathers start celebrating while the young mother and child are
at the clinic; champagne more often than not, under the viligence of his
mother, or of his mother-in-law or, which may sound worse, of both, who
may have come down to take care of the elder children.
Then, when the young mother and child return home, visitors bring
presents, and keep drinking champagne or whatever the aforesaid father
has left, with the aforeaforesaid father.
Some time later, if the family is religious, the kid gets 'christened',
and it is another opportunity for celebration, champagne, etc. Presents
are offered to the child, such as gold coins - just in case there should
be another war - silver spoons or tumbler - because he must face germs
very early in life - on top of the usual blue cardigan to a female baby
with an unknown first name, or of a much too large pink wooly that will
be out of fashion when HE has grown large enough to wear it.
In short, it is all about rejoicing as in any country I guess, and
rightly so.
Enjoy your baby, they grow up so fast, and these are treasured moments.
Keep clicking.
Philippe, a father of three, aged 15 to 25.
PS: the Elmarit works fine, is it an R on Oly? Or M on M?
Michael Wong wrote:
>A new member was born in my family. The baby is a girl & her name is Tracy.
>In Chinese society, there is a celebration for the new born baby upon the
>baby was born for one month. Family members would go to a small party for
>celebration. How's the western countries to celebrate a new born baby?
>
>http://images1.fotop.net/albums6/MichaelWong/Tracy_20090821/IMG4024_Elmarit90.jpg
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>Michael
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