is Eden Daisy Bernstein, born Monday at 4 am, 7 lbs, 4.5 oz, 20.5 inches long, and cute as a button. Her Hebrew name is Shulamit Fayga, after three of her great-grandmothers. I'm very proud of Mrs. Bernstein who endured--yes, that's the right word--her second natural delivery.

Apropos of recent posts by Eugene, great-grandma Salima-Shulamit got married at age 15 to her 34 year old husband, which apparently was not an unusual event in a secular Jewish family in Baghdad circa 1930.