A couple of days ago one of the staff in the village (who, four years ago, was one of the NHCC children who I knew really well) went into labour and after a quick dash to the hospital in Phnom Penh gave birth to a baby boy. I had been having discussions with her and her husband about names, and they wanted me to give him a foreign name, but I didn’t feel right naming their baby for them, so I said that I would write down every boys name I could think of and they could say yes or no. After much shortlisting, the four favourite names were David, Henry, Julian and Jerry (yes, I had been thinking of Tom and Jerry). I got a phone call from the hospital just after he was born and they had decided to call him Julian, so I can sort of say that I named a baby (though just for the record it is not a name that I would have picked, but I have grown to quite like it now!) I got to see him when he was two days old, making him both the youngest and the smallest baby I have ever seen and here he is.........
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