Nejko’s randomness

7 November was a special day for our family. Our son was born exactly at 19:58 UTC+1. He weighted 3.69 kg and was 53 cm high (long?). The birth was quite an experience for all of us, especially for my wife Mica. She had been pushing Jakob out from early morning (5:00) until evening. I was with her all that time and I realized that birth is a sum of extremes: it’s both very beautiful and quite hard.

Jakob and his parents

It was difficult for us to pick a name for our son (we knew it was going to be a boy, but didn’t want to tell anyone) because with Mica we have slightly different taste regarding names. It was a long process and we mostly made use of idle time in the car while driving, to negotiate. Jakob is a Slovenian translation of Jacob (James in English, Santiago in Spanish) and it also symbolizes our beginning as being a couple. A month after we met (in August 2004), we went on a pilgrimage (well, for me it was a more like long hike) to Santiago de Compostella in Spain. The pilgrimage path is called Camino de Santiago (in Spanish) and is very interesting and beautiful. You can see photos from our journey here.

For more photos of our newborn check our gallery at http://galerija.skoberne.net/v/Jakob.