So for the last 9 months we’ve been telling everyone that we booked April 29th before Will & Kate did. It’s true, we announced it before they did. As much as I thought it was a little rude of them to organise their party on the same day as we were planning on having a …
Monthly Archive: April 2011
Apr 18
Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It
Now that you’re going to be a dad your mission is to act like a lion. Yes, a lion. You don’t need to sharpen your teeth and grow a mane (you can if you like, could be cool), but you do need to be the protector of wife and baby for the first few weeks. …
Apr 15
The Cat That Got The Cream
I will apologise for this post right now. I probably shouldn’t share this, but I will For those of you who have owned a cat, you’ll know all about the kneading they do when they are trying to get comfortable on your lap. For those of you who haven’t, basically most cats will sit on …
Apr 12
Overprotective Dad
You’ll get hit with a whole raft of emotions, many of which I’ve described in earlier posts. However there’s one I don’t think I’ve mentioned so far: protectiveness. You might think this is quite a broad and common emotion to experience before and after the birth of your child, however I was hit by a …
Apr 11
Alternative Labour Advice
I almost forgot to say. You’ll get a lot of advice as a dad to be, mostly from experienced parents. A lot of it will reinforce what you’ve been told elsewhere while the rest will contradict. The advice you receive will be very different to that which your partner receives. However every now and then, …
Apr 11
It’s Life Jim, But Not As We Know It
That’s us pretty much up to date now. Hopefully I’ve shared some of the emotions and processes I went through and that they were in some way helpful. We are now at the 37.5 week stage, which is classed, apparently, as full term so it’s really any day now. Am I ready? Yes, I think …
Apr 07
You’re Pregnant? Be Our Friend!
So you’ve done the reading, you’ve been given advice from friends, family and colleagues, so what does any rational parent to be do now? Try and get more information! Of course you want more information to further muddy the waters of what is proper parenting. You will most likely be told that your local NHS …
Apr 04
Daddy Limbo
Once you get over the initial excitement, you are left to carry on with your everyday life. For me that was quite hard. Mainly because you have all this excitement in the first few weeks, then the scan and then, nothing. But it’s not really nothing. You know in only a few months you’re going …
Apr 01
What’s That I Can Smell?
By this point, “morning” sickness was in full swing. The reason I put the quotes round the word morning was because it is anything but. It starts in the morning yes, but it carries on all day. So really it’d have been more accurate to call those few precious vomit free hours “moments of clarity” …
Apr 01
Are You In There?
The first scan. This was, for my wife and I, the first thing we officially did as a pregnant couple. Off we went to the hospital, thinking we knew what we were in for. I’m sure you’ve all seen the TV programs showing a baby shaped blob on screen and the background sound of a …
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