Monthly Archive: October 2011

Oct 26

The Gallery: Faces

It’s that time of the week again. Tara over at Sticky Fingers has given us a cracking topic for The Gallery: Faces. Faces are cool. Faces are the only thing you need to see to know what someone is thinking. They don’t even need to be looking at you and you can tell what’s going …

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Oct 25

Music As Therapy

Apologies for the amount of music posts at the moment. This is still a dad blog and normal service will resume, but I was kindly tagged by @SAHDandproud to do a little bitty on Music As Therapy. Although I initially thought this would be easy to do, getting it to a readable length is harder …

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Oct 19

A Gut Feeling

As you’ll know by now, Olivia has a suspected lactose intolerance or cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA). This came about more through trial and error by our GP and health visitor than anything else, but her being on Nutramigen 1 LIPIL really does seem to have completely removed the symptoms of bloating, crying, vomiting, dry …

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Oct 11

The Joys Of Weaning

It was only 5 months ago that our baby girl was yanked into this world. This blog is the record of what has happened since then. Probably the biggest milestone so far has been weaning. As I’ve mentioned previously, we started off by giving Olivia fruit purees so she could get used to the feeling …

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Oct 06

How Things Change

Not sure why this popped into my head this morning, but I remembered posting a question a guys forum about becoming a dad. Here is that post: I hope someone can help, maybe someone who has been in a similar situation. My wife and I (both 30) have recently begun discussing starting a family. Until …

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Oct 01

Daddy Day Care 2.0

It’s Saturday and I’m having lunch on my own. I’m on my own because Olivia is upstairs napping and my wife is having a very well earned Saturday out with one her friends in Glasgow. My understanding is that the lunch will involve tapas and wine. I hope she’s having a great time. I’m perfectly …

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