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BABBY FORMED BY METAFILTER

Specklet — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:09:43 -0800

BABBY FORMED BY METAFILTER

It all started with an innocuous comment on MetaChat almost six years ago. One thing led to another, and now I'm very pleased at announce there is a whole other person on the planet! This is Henry, the first baby (I think) born to folks who met on MetaChat. More pics here. He was born via a dramatic emergency c-section on August 24th at 3.11 PM, 6 lbs 5 oz. If there was no MetaFilter there would be no MetaChat, so thank you, MetaFilter, from proud parents Specklet and TheDonF!

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:13:27 -0800

Welcome babby! Welcome to the longboat!

By: dabug

dabug — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:13:29 -0800

Yay congrats!

By: SweetTeaAndABiscuit

SweetTeaAndABiscuit — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:14:07 -0800

So, so beautiful. Big congratulations to all of you and I'm so glad all the drama had a happy ending!

By: lakersfan1222

lakersfan1222 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:20:46 -0800

What a cool story, and he is absolutely beautiful. Welcome, Henry! May his birth be as much emergency drama that your family has to experience together.

By: Egg Shen

Egg Shen — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:22:04 -0800

I now have an idea for a book: Baby's First Plate of Beans

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:23:21 -0800

Congratulations! Henry is super-cute. I hope the birthing process wasn't too prickly! ;)

By: roomthreeseventeen

roomthreeseventeen — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:25:22 -0800

Congratulations!

By: Danf

Danf — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:26:58 -0800

Hey iconomy, have you seen my sugar gliders?

Well it was worth a shot. . .

By: zarq

zarq — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:28:23 -0800

Yay! Congratulations!!!! :) :)

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:29:18 -0800

Happy new baby! Welcome to the world, Henry!

By: greycap

greycap — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:45:06 -0800

Congratulations! I remember that MetaChat thread, it's wonderful that it led to such great things.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:45:46 -0800

This is so exciting. Mazel tov, and thank you for making a new person.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:48:14 -0800

Congratulations!

All babies are beautiful. And I know you're supposed to say that all babies are cute. But, objectively, that's not always true, even if it's not polite to say so.

But gosh darn that is one cute freakin' baby!* Like "makes me ignore my 'babies for you = none' wiring for a surprising number of seconds" cute. I keep wanting to link to my favorite picture but I love them all.

* language cleaned up because swearing about babies seems weird

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:52:09 -0800

You guys took 6 years to make babby and it's only 6 pounds?!!?!??!

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:59:17 -0800

Cute burrito babby! Congratulations guys!

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:04:20 -0800

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:09:04 -0800

Should this go into the "projects" section?

The whole idea of a group weblog eventually leading to procreation (dating sites aside) is sort of amazing, really.

By: carter

carter — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:09:25 -0800

Congratulations! Cute looking kid!

By: shothotbot

shothotbot — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:09:27 -0800

Hey Don, have you seen my sugar gliders? They're a lot of work, but otherwise fit your bill.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

By: dirtdirt

dirtdirt — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:14:01 -0800

Yay! Happiness! Babby! Sweet!

Have you "seen my sugar gliders", indeed.

By: onlyconnect

onlyconnect — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:24:19 -0800

Oh my gosh! Those are really some of the most adorable baby photos I have ever seen! So much expression in one little face!

Congratulations on your wonderful baby and all the best for Your new parental adventure! (fwiw, NortonDC and I met at a MeFi meetup, got married, had a baby, and just today took our girl, now 3.5 years old, to her first day of preschool. It goes by so fast! All that sweetness and cuddling ahead of you! I wish you the best!)

By: bedhead

bedhead — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:25:51 -0800

Babby is beautifully formed! Congratulations!

By: asnider

asnider — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:41:28 -0800

Should have named him MetaHenry, in honour of the place his parents met.

Seriously, though, this is a pretty cool story. Congrats on the new addition!

By: Think_Long

Think_Long — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:47:52 -0800

Hey Don, have you seen my sugar gliders? They're a lot of work, but otherwise fit your bill.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

God dammit, I was gonna make that joke!

By: exogenous

exogenous — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:56:41 -0800

phunniemee: "How many formed-by-metafilter couples are there? This is a statistic I'd like to know."

I think NortonDC (of "we have cameras" fame) met his wife at a meetup here in DC several years back. She has an account but I don't recall her username.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:02:12 -0800

How many formed-by-metafilter couples are there? This is a statistic I'd like to know.

When you consider the number of MeFi widows (my wife) and the people that have been DTMFA'd by AskMe the net impact of Metafilter on couplings is an extremely negative number, Baby Specklet notwithstanding.

Mefites, it's up to you to restore the balance and get couplin' up. I'll count you off: 1,2,1,2,1,2...

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:02:53 -0800

Welcome to Earth, little Henry!

Congrats, Specklet & TheDonF!

Glad you made it through the hard transition, all!

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:09:18 -0800

Congratulations to the meta-couple and welcome to Henry. Does Henry have a screen name yet?

By: maqsarian

maqsarian — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:24:56 -0800

Hey, that's great. Congratulations, you guys.

I like TheDonF's comment that prompted the sugar gliders response:

I need a pet, something small and cute to play with and that would be good company.
posted by TheDonF 13 November | 17:47

So, mission accomplished, then.

By: Miko

Miko — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:31:10 -0800

My boyfriend is a mefite, and we met at a metafilter meetup. And I believe the Chicago crowd has at least one more mefimance aside from us. How many formed-by-metafilter couples are there? This is a statistic I'd like to know.

A goodly number. And many on MetaChat as well - maybe even a higher proportion, given the smaller size of that site - some that have lasted, some that have not. I met my partner on MetaChat but so far we have produced no babbies.

Speck's lil child is indeed a nubbinly one. Congrats again!

By: Phire

Phire — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:34:34 -0800

Hurray! Congrats, Specklet! Mini-Specklet has awesome parents indeed.

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:47:01 -0800

Internet-assisted reproduction! Truly, we are in the future!

Congratulations, and hello, babby! Make your folks get you an account ASAP.

By: jessypie

jessypie — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:48:37 -0800

Hooray! Congratulations!

By: pracowity

pracowity — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:06:07 -0800

I like the look of that kid. He's already got character.

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:14:24 -0800

Mazel tov!

By: maryr

maryr — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:19:27 -0800

It is depressing how pleased I would be if I could just find a mate via Metafilter.

By: maryr

maryr — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:19:36 -0800

MateFilter?

By: zizzle

zizzle — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:20:40 -0800

Oh, hi, baby!

Welcome to this great big wide awesome world!

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:33:33 -0800

Hurrah, Henry!

He's a handsome fellow. Takes after Spcklet's side of the family, i see.

MetaChat is a groovy place to meet hot chicks and/or righteous dudes, IMO.

By: misha

misha — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:37:30 -0800

Happy Belated birthday, Baby Henry! Your Mom and Dad will have a really cool story to tell you one day about how they met each other!

Emergency C sections are not the most fun happy way to have babby, though. Hope you are doing well, Mama! If you ever want to vent about it, or if you are concerned about anything during your recovery, feel free to Mefimail me!

I had two C-sections, and one was an OMG,YOU ARE EIGHT CENTIMETERS AND THE BABY IS FOOTLING BREECH WE HAVE TO DO THIS NOWNOWNOW! emergency.*

*That baby is 6'4" tall now. So, fair warning!

By: darth_tedious

darth_tedious — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:47:47 -0800

Congrats!

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:57:47 -0800

NOW BEGINS THE SELECTIVE BREEDING PROGRAM

By: Dasein

Dasein — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:11:28 -0800

THIS IS NOT A BOOB WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TRYING TO FOOL HERE?

By: Panjandrum

Panjandrum — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:22:14 -0800

Congrats! This was obviously destined to happen, given that you also laid down some solid child-rearing advice in that same original MetaChat:

They eat a special mixture consisting of honey, various kinds of baby food, instant rice cereal, wheat germ, vitamins, etc, as well as a daily serving of fresh veggies, fresh fruit, and live meal worms.

They need quite a lot of attention, and quite a lot of patience. They are wild animals, and although they will bond with a human very strongly, it takes time and diligence. I've had mine for two months now, and we're only getting to the point where I can pick them up without them getting defensive/nippy.

They're adorable, though, and once bonded to you will climb all over you, play with your hair, and sleep in your shirt.

By: ramix

ramix — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:22:51 -0800

Oh noway!! Wow!! I didn't know there was a babby on the way!! Congrats sweetie! He's a cutie!

By: Houstonian

Houstonian — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:22:54 -0800

My favorite is the yawn. Adorable!

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:25:32 -0800

Congratulations on your additional Netizen!

By: infini

infini — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:33:54 -0800

*big wide grin*

*nods and smiles and grins goofily at it all*

*hands over flowers and candy*

By: orange swan

orange swan — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:36:34 -0800

Congratulations on the birth of your adorable little MeChazen, Specklet and TheDonF.

Ten years as a MeFite, and [sniffle] no one has ever invited me to see his sugar glider.

By: MT

MT — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:44:17 -0800

Beautiful!

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:45:54 -0800

This is lovely and your baby is lovely and you guys are lovely.

By: SuperSquirrel

SuperSquirrel — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:52:56 -0800

Welcome to the world, young sir!

By: item

item — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:14:43 -0800

Even though I'm in my 30's and in pretty much the apex of happy/healthy/worthwhile relationships - indeed, the best in my life (for 3 years to a stunningly beautiful gal who'd no doubt produce stunningly beautiful kids - and is a Mefite to boot) - babies still freak me right out. Eep. It'll happen someday, though so I suppose all I can do is enjoy it while I can.

I do remember y'all getting together back in my Mecha days, Speck, and damn that's one fine little booger. I wish the tyke all the happiness that somehow missed me as a youngin'. God I'm such a downer.

By: Renoroc

Renoroc — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:25:23 -0800

Congrats!

By: bquarters

bquarters — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:29:47 -0800

1. You are a very cute family.
2. I must immediately figure out how to 'MetaChat'.

By: rabbitrabbit

rabbitrabbit — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:30:09 -0800

Yay, congrats! He's gorgeous!

By: Jofus

Jofus — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:32:55 -0800

They need to do a way instain mother. \o/

By: safetyfork

safetyfork — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:41:51 -0800

Huzzah! I'm so happy for the three of you!

By: KathrynT

KathrynT — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:44:18 -0800

Wow that is one seriously perfect and gorgeous baby. Hopefully your Exciting Drama with him will all be front-loaded. Congratulations to you both!

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:55:28 -0800

My goodness this is exciting news! Congratulations to specklet and TheDonF on your beautiful babby boi!

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:47:36 -0800

Awwwww. Congratulations! The hair! Those cute cheeks! Welcome, Henry!

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:54:03 -0800

But who was phone?

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:14:40 -0800

Yay Henry! Yay Specklet & theDonF! Now go sleep while the baby sleeps.

By: mckenney

mckenney — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:30:38 -0800

We're ignoring the most important question: what happened to the sugar gliders?!

By: triggerfinger

triggerfinger — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:44:22 -0800

Aaaw, congrats! He's a gorgeous little guy!

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:53:27 -0800

Congrats parents and welcome to the light, Henry!!

I met my husband on Metafilter and we have a very promising young spawn.

By: box

box — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:57:33 -0800

Congratulations!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:57:45 -0800

These sugar gliders, are they hard or soft core?

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:58:10 -0800

[and congrats!]

By: ambrosia

ambrosia — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:23:00 -0800

beautiful baby! Congratulations.

By: jquinby

jquinby — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:44:20 -0800

Huzzah!

By: smirkette

smirkette — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:01:19 -0800

Woohoo! Congratulations!

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:36:00 -0800

Henry is gorgeous. He is a handsome little man.

I both do and do not envy you the next three months of your lives. Congratulations on having made something so wonderful.

By: 26.2

26.2 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:52:47 -0800

Yippee for the new family! That rocks.

By: cmyk

cmyk — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:58:36 -0800

Yay for Specklet and theDonF and Henry! Yay for sugar gliders!

It is with some sadness that I say this though, as I will miss the hilarious Twitter adventures of #PREGLOR.

By: schmod

schmod — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:08:20 -0800

^

Sorry. I've been writing lots of regular expressions today...

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:22:58 -0800

Congratulations! What a handsome little guy.

By: amanda

amanda — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:47:05 -0800

Henry is so very adorable! Congratulations!!

By: daniel_charms

daniel_charms — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:54:55 -0800

Congrats, Speck and TheDonF!

By: TangerineGurl

TangerineGurl — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:17:01 -0800

Welcome, Henry! Welcome from the Blue Nowhere!

By: a humble nudibranch

a humble nudibranch — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:12:03 -0800

That photo of the upside down Specklet with Dad and Henry is the sweetest new babby photo I've ever seen. Much happiness MetaFamily!

By: taz

taz — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:12:10 -0800

AWWW. Babby is instainly adorable!! And I'm internet godmother, right?

Hugs and congratulations, you two, you make such beautiful things.

*´¨)
¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨)
(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Welcome, Henry!*´¨)

By: Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:22:05 -0800

Such a cutie. Congratulations!

By: undue influence

undue influence — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:06:22 -0800

So cute. Congratulations!

Metafilter: best (babbies) of the web.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:03:10 -0800

Congrats you crazy kids!

I think NortonDC (of "we have cameras" fame) met his wife at a meetup here in DC several years back. She has an account but I don't recall her username.

Her username is onlyconnect.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:18:19 -0800

I met my SO via MeFi, too. Over four years ago! Best. meetup. ever. (I was such a newb.)

By: terrapin

terrapin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:54:41 -0800

Yeah, and I nearly called the police on not_on_display when he popped into an IRC chat, asked me if I knew jessamyn, and then said "I like jessamyn" :P

By: gauche

gauche — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:09:12 -0800

Hurrah! Late to this party but thrilled to welcome a new baby Mefite into the world.

By: TheDonF

TheDonF — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:56:17 -0800

Yay! Thanks for all the wonderful comments :) Although we met on MetaChat, we almost certainly wouldn't have been on that site if it wasn't for Metafilter. Strangely, we signed up for accounts here within three days of each other back in 2004. I'm sure Specklet will comment in here later, but she and Henry are fast asleep at the moment. I wish I was as well, but work—augmented by large amounts of caffiene—is calling.

And, taz: yes, internet godmother :)

By: jourman2

jourman2 — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:04:01 -0800

Congrats and all, but the kid pays $5, same as in town.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:17:17 -0800

Thanks everyone! You are all sweet and amusing!

And taz, YES, you are totally Henry's internet godmother!

By: chowflap

chowflap — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:14:19 -0800

Yay! Congrats to you all! That's a lucky babby, to have y'all as parents.

By: St. Alia of the Bunnies

St. Alia of the Bunnies — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:47:25 -0800

Congratulations!

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:11:33 -0800

Strangely, we signed up for accounts here within three days of each other back in 2004.

Well, that was when the doors were opened for $5 noobs, so it's not that surprising. But now look what happens. You should make Matt his godfather! Or is a new term required - webfather?

(eep. i just realised that would make lil ubu's webfather Mark Zuckerberg. cancel that)

Cute babby, by the way - congrats & enjoy the ride!

By: Anything

Anything — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:58:30 -0800

Hooray for all three!

By: TomMelee

TomMelee — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:25:04 -0800

Awesome and congrats! I really feel like MeFi helped put me in a good place when our wee man was born 21 months ago! (wow it goes fast...savor it.)

Hopefully none of the super cheery folk from this thread decide to poop on your party.

By: epj

epj — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:32:31 -0800

Hooray for babby!!

By: Wilder

Wilder — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:11:17 -0800

late to the party but delighted for you guys, he looks sooo cute!

By: leslies

leslies — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:25:03 -0800

What a darling! congrats! And heal fast - emergency c-sections are way too exciting.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:23:34 -0800

congrats!

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:35:03 -0800

Congratulations to all! Welcome, Henry!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:45:41 -0800

I am very happy for you guys and your family.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:10:52 -0800

Thanks again, everyone!

By: BlueHorse

BlueHorse — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:49:50 -0800

Neat story!
Congratulations.
Henry's a charmer.

I met my husband on Metafilter and we have a very promising young spawn.
posted by thirteenkiller

Ah ha! There's another tale.