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Category: Health

  • The First Journey

    With some trepidation the trip home approached. This would also be the first on an aeroplane for our Little Boy, and considering one half of the family suffers from bad ears on flights, it was a little worrying – especially as the flight is seven hours long. Purposely we had chosen a night flight as […]

  • Another Learning Experience

    Being new parents we, like all other new parents, seem to have a tendency to get overly worried or protective. There is nothing wrong with this of course, and it is the norm but it does cause some difficult situations. In the middle of this week our Baby Boy started to regurgitate his milk – […]

  • The Birth II

    We were lucky enough to find a superb Gynaecologist who delivered our baby. Through every step of the process he helped and guided us while still managing to instil great confidence. The day eventually came when we parted ways – a healthy Baby Boy had been born and the Doctor moved on to other patients. […]

  • What about some friendly advice?

    Dad Tip #107: if potty training was an olympic sport, it would be the Marathon, not the 100m sprint. @TomMQuinn

  • Sleeping Baby, Staring Parents

    Time spent on getting your baby to sleep can be quite substantial. So it is strange that when parents do get their babies to sleep, they then stand there watching the baby. Seeing the quirky facial movements, the half smile, the quivering lip, the big grin that seems to represent a ‘number 2’, or the […]

  • Night-time Observation

    From many people and friends I have heard of the problem of night-time feeds. They occur several times through the night, and interrupt your sleep immensely. But there is a piece of information missing, and that is the length of time for the actual feed. To be woken at 1am, and then 5am sounds bad, but not necessarily […]

  • The Umbilical Cord

    At the birth, I was instructed by the Doctor on where to cut the Umbilical Cord. What wasn’t mentioned, and what did not cross my mind, is what happens to the rest of the cord – the part between where I cut it, and Baby. For those not familiar, the cord is approximately thumb-like in […]

  • [dee-zhawn] [muhs-terd]

    I’m really not sure how it came up in conversation, but the midwife explained to us what a normal ‘movement’ should be like for a newborn. Without a single hesitation she described it quite simply as being like Dijon Mustard …. …. seeds included.

  • Facial Contortions

    Just over a day had passed and the decision to force our Little Boy to have his first movement was made. So a little before midnight, my son was taken away by the nurse and was screaming blue-murder down the corridor. When I got there, the nurse had stripped him and was giving him a […]

  • Beautiful Boy

    Last night we had a phone call that put back the time of the caesarian. Not psychologically the best thing that could have happened. So this morning we left for the hospital later then originally planned but no one had been able to sleep. After having been given a room, it was a waiting game […]