Category: Parents
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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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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 – […]
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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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Singing Ability & Parenthood
I am not a born singer but I have come to realise that parenthood changes all of that. All of a sudden your knowledge of a song, in particular the words, brings forth never before seen (in this case heard) renditions of a usually popular song. Depending on your mood, the new lyrics can be quite good […]
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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 […]
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Is he coming?
Early this morning, we phoned the hospital as we thought there may be a problem. They told us to come in straight-away. 11:16 Have arrived at the hospital, and have been hooked up to a heart and toco monitor. I had to look up what toco meant – basically it measures contractions. A little bit […]
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Headbands
If you buy those headbands with a bow on them for a girl baby your child will look like a demented Easter Egg in a nappy. ~ The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
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Breaking the News
Near the end of last month the first trimester of the pregnancy ended; up until that point we had not told many people of the news. Family was of course first, and I was actually surprised at the reaction. My birthday coincided with us starting to tell friends the news, and if I was to […]