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The iPhone Baby Arrives: Introducing Madeline Mirai Horwitz
By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLoungeGoogle+
Published: Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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Yesterday, at 3:23PM ET, we welcomed Madeline Mirai Horwitz into the world. Weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces, and measuring 20 3/4” long, Madeline is the little girl whose pre-natal days were chronicled in The iPhone Baby. The feature article is especially fun to look back on at this point; yes, we did use the iPhone as a stopwatch, and sent her first pictures via the hospital’s Wi-Fi and its camera.
Special thanks to our readers and those in the industry who have asked about the baby; Madeline and mom are both doing great. No gifts, please, as we cannot accept them—she’s apparently not old enough yet to sign up for an AT&T contract—but the thought is appreciated.
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Welcome to the world, Maddy!
Posted by Galley in Greenville, SC on July 8, 2008 at 6:58 AM (PST)
2
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Welcome to the world!
Posted by bluazul on July 8, 2008 at 8:43 AM (PST)
3
mazeltov
though if she’d arrived a few days later she really would have been an iPhone baby (well 3G version!!)
Posted by yinyang on July 8, 2008 at 9:33 AM (PST)
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Congratulations Horwitz family! And, through a peculiar quirk of fate, I happen to know that Mirai is Japanese for “the future.” A particularly apt middle name for the iPhone baby.
Posted by Penner on July 8, 2008 at 1:00 PM (PST)
5
Madeline is just beautiful. She is loved by so many already! Congrats to the new mom and dad!
Posted by houseofbest on July 8, 2008 at 9:04 PM (PST)
6
Congratulations on your new born. And Madeline…welcome to the world.
Posted by Dan Nicholls on July 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM (PST)
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Congratulations!! It is the best thing in the world isn’t it? We just had our “little guy” in May and it gets better everyday. The sleep part sucks, but enjoy every minute of it….......MADDIE RULES!!
Posted by funkgut on July 11, 2008 at 5:24 AM (PST)
8
Congratulations ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Posted by gonzalo on July 14, 2008 at 8:24 AM (PST)
9
Awee she’s so sweet ! Welcome to existence Madeline, may God’s and my blessings always be with you ! I’d have perhaps gone berserk if I had a baby *and* an iPhone 3G the same day. But look at her, she came to this world alone, and like everyone else, she’ll go back alone. iPhones and everything else materialistically nice would stay back on earth. Its a beautiful lesson for mankind !
Posted by Sayambhu Choudhury on July 19, 2008 at 12:57 AM (PST)
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I just welcomed my 2nd child (but first since I got my 1st gen iPhone) and my iPhone was also amazing helpful in sharing the good news…taking pictures to post to a web gallery and sending a precomposed email to my friends within minutes after she was born. And the best part was that my wife didn’t even get mad at me for using it!
Posted by TosaDeac on February 4, 2009 at 10:00 PM (PST)