Michael Psellos congratulated Konstantinos, nephew of the patriarch Michael Keroularios, and his second wife, on the birth of a child, especially as it was a son. Psellos imagined the scene after the birth, remembering family life with the vestarches, his son-in-law. Psellos was susceptible to natural events like childbirth, though being tough, "Scythian", in the rest of his life ... he was not a single, monotonous note, but could play a variety of different tunes