“Ada is born”
– as David succinctly put it.
Indeed, she was born on Friday night, around the time I was blogging.
The child and mother (and father) are basically fine, though they aren’t permitted to leave the hospital until Tuesday.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Some of you may be wondering why the name “Ada” was chosen. I can’t remember all the reasons. But among them are these:
(1) It is spelled the same in English and Spanish.
(2) One of David’s earliest schoolteachers was named Ada.
(3) It was the name of the distinguished mathematician, Ada Lovelace.
Unlike Lord Byron’s other children, Ada Lovelace wasn’t born out of wedlock. Her mother, Lady Byron, encouraged Ada in her studies: “An education in mathematics and logic,” Wikipedia reports Lady Byron as presuming, “would counteract any possible inherited tendency towards Lord Byron’s insanity and romantic excess.”
(I doubt whether such details influenced Ana’s & David’s choice of name.)
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
“Marie” is Ada’s middle name. It’s for our mother’s mother.
Indeed, she was born on Friday night, around the time I was blogging.
The child and mother (and father) are basically fine, though they aren’t permitted to leave the hospital until Tuesday.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Some of you may be wondering why the name “Ada” was chosen. I can’t remember all the reasons. But among them are these:
(1) It is spelled the same in English and Spanish.
(2) One of David’s earliest schoolteachers was named Ada.
(3) It was the name of the distinguished mathematician, Ada Lovelace.
Unlike Lord Byron’s other children, Ada Lovelace wasn’t born out of wedlock. Her mother, Lady Byron, encouraged Ada in her studies: “An education in mathematics and logic,” Wikipedia reports Lady Byron as presuming, “would counteract any possible inherited tendency towards Lord Byron’s insanity and romantic excess.”
(I doubt whether such details influenced Ana’s & David’s choice of name.)
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
“Marie” is Ada’s middle name. It’s for our mother’s mother.