Proudly introducing...Ciara

Great news! Ciara (pronunciation [kira] was born yesterday at 6:07 pm. She weighs 3 kg 580 grams and is 50,5 cm long. Get out your calculators to convert that to inches, stones, Watt and degrees Fahrenheit! :)

Mother and daughter are doing fine and send you peace and blue skies from Belgium.

Ciara (IPA: /ˈkɪərə/) is a popular Irish language female name and was tenth on the list of most popular names given to baby girls in Ireland in 2006. It is the feminine version of the name Ciarán, meaning "black" in Irish Gaelic, and was also the name of Saint Ciara, a seventh century Irish saint venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. The name's spelling has occasionally been Anglicized as Keira or Kiera.