Category: Observations
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Wrenching
You hear about it, you see it in films, read it in books, but nothing prepared me for the feeling when I had to leave my wife and son back in Europe and head back home to work. I’m not unemotional, but I was completely taken aback by how powerful the feeling was when it […]
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Boys Outing
Today, Father and Son headed out to the shops on our own. For the first time. The shops are literally a five minute drive, and before we had even arrived we had received a message asking “All ok?”. 15 minutes later we had another asking “When we are coming home” – I think Mummy […]
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Angel Spotting
There is nothing much to look at on the ceiling in our apartment, or on any other ceiling usually. So what do babies look at? At first we thought he was looking at the light fitting but he wasn’t. Followed by laughing and chuckling as though he might be conversing with something, or someone. We […]
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A Tale of Colic from a far-off-land
In Kenya, Gusii babies get a condition called Enyancha (The Lake) in which their genitals are supposedly disturbed by the wind moving off Lake Victoria. Deborah Jackson
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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[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.