In my family mothers were not around when we had our first borns as they worked in different towns to where we lived - my mother lived nearly 200 kms away and my sister-in-laws mother lived over 2000 kms away. I also was over 2 hours away from my sister-in-law so both she and I had to cope from day 1 with no mothers or other family - and we did.
Official pictures are expected shortly after midnight GMT, or around 7PM EST.
Actually they're expected after midnight, not neccesarily expected to be released directly after midnight. They're missing a massive audience if they release them at 00:01.
posts discussing the official photos taken by michael middleton have been moved to a new thread:
prince george: First official photos
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#RoyalBaby: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge write to all well-wishers via @Telegraph http://fw.to/AK7s6mS
Here is the MIRROR version: Prince George birth: William and Kate send thank you notes to every well-wisher who wrote to them - Mirror Online
OK - so we all know they had help and that the gesture is not full of meaning, EXCEPT to the people who get the cards and treasure them.
In any case - lovely manners! And good PR.
If its just about the pix of george released to date (the 2 by MM) then use that thread.
Anything about George, his birth etc is on here. At some stage - dont know when - it will merge into probably another thread.
I dont understand it either - not really. But what I have said is what I am working on
I asked the Mods - a couple of weeks after the birth. They said this will go on until some logical break (I am paraphrasing) like Christening or some other official event (multi generational portrait?) and then we will move into a W and C and Family thread. I'm assuming the EVENT will have its own thread as well.
There is no rush - apparently.