Galaxy Origins
Why the birth time matters
Most birth prints use the date. We use the minute: the sky turns about a degree every four minutes, so the time on the hospital band decides which galaxy was at the very top of the sky as they arrived.
Give us the date, that time and the town or hospital. We find the catalogued galaxy nearest that point and frame its telescope photograph, with their name and up to sixty characters beneath.
For the nursery, and long after
- Isla Rose · 6 lb 2 oz · Royal Infirmary
- Welcome to the world, Arthur.
- The sky the day you made us four.
It is a framed artwork rather than a nursery print, so it moves with them to their own room, then their own house.
When to give it
The first weeks bring a flood of baby clothes that fit for a month. A framed piece usually lands better a little later: at the first visit with a meal, at the naming day or at six months, when the parents finally have a moment to put something on the wall.
If you are not sure of the birth time, wait until the parents have shared it. It is on the hospital band and, in Scotland, on the birth certificate.
