G'day, my name's Leon, and this is my blog. I'm a 30 year old guy who lives in Perth, Australia, with my wife, Robyn, and our almost-two-year-old son, Oscar. We're all what I consider to be pretty normal - we live in the suburbs, have normal jobs, do normal family things and enjoy the company of family and friends (normally).

Then last Saturday, things got flipped around a bit. Robsey went into labour, ultimately giving birth to our second child on Tuesday, 24/1/12. Normally, this wouldn't be terribly remarkable, I mean, normal families from the 'burbs have kids all the time. The kicker was that Robs was only 24 weeks pregnant when labour commenced. Consequently, our little one popped out weighing 680 grams and is looking at a 4 month stay in the Neonatal ICU at King Edward Memorial Hospital before she can come home and meet her big brother, sleep in her own room, have a shower with Daddy and do all those other normal things. So now, I suppose, the situation we find ourselves in would not be considered so normal.

Now I'm not a great fan of repeating the same story over and over to people when I'm connected to a story that aforementioned people like to ask about. At the same time, I understand the inquisitive nature of people that compels them to ask the how/what/why questions about events considered to be newsworthy. To that end, I thought it best that I publish the answers to all those questions in one place. Sanity preservation would be a nice side effect for yours truly, too.

My intention is to update the blog with reasonable regularity. Time will tell whether good intentions result in this simple goal being realised, but for the time being, be prepared to catch up on what it's like to be the father of little Lucy Renae Wilson.

Check out time for me now. Time to lay on the couch and absorb a bunch of relatively meaningless information relating to American sports courtesy of the talking heads on ESPN.

L