Tag: Parenting
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Baby Kai’s Day Out
OK, it was our day out. Having stayed home for almost a month (trip to Mum’s house for celebration not counted), Naomi and I thought it’d be good to get out and let Kai announce himself to the world, H1N1 notwithstanding. And announce he did, with big, heartfelt cries when it was feeding time when…
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Living at The Meconium
A friend commented on the baby jargon we’ve accumulated over the past 9 months, but I’m sure it’s the same with all new parents. One of the things that we’ve learned is that baby’s first few poops are a sticky greenish-black substance called “meconium”. That sounds more like the name of one of those modern…
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Kitting out baby
I’ve not been too busy to blog, and I blame Twitter. Even then, I’ve not been twittering properly either. But with that out of the way, we have been busy getting the house ready for our still nameless baby, who arrives in 7 weeks. We’ve been shopping around but not necessarily buying, and putting things…
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Halfway there
One of the funnier moments in the last 20 weeks was comprised of me, sitting in the ob-gyn’s office, reacting to the ob-gyn’s indicating on the ultrasound that Naomi and I would very likely be having a baby boy instead of a girl which I had so confidently predicted previously “because I can just feel…