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Category Archives: fatherhood
Picking my battles
Pat… pat… pat… f#$%&g pat… pat… pat… f#$%&g pat… The red digits on the clock have just changed for the 84th time. That’s one hour and twenty four minutes that I have sat beside the cradle patting my 7 week old … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Dad, fatherhood, Tips for new Dads
Tagged child safety, conscious parenting, Home, Parenting, Sleep, Trampoline
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Top 5 reasons I’m glad not to be a mum
It starts with a quiet, insistent licking of lips. I can hear her at the end of the bed. Her head rubbing against the sheets and she moves from side to side, quicker and quicker and then, the first “uh!”. … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Dad, fatherhood
Tagged Breast feed, Breastfeeding, Family, Fathers, humour, Infant, Infant formula, Mother, parents
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Newborns are boring
For the aspiring father-to-be the birth of your child represents the culmination of months of effort. Assuming that conception is relatively simple (and spectacular – obviously) you’ve spent the last nine or so months preparing bedrooms, choosing prams, picking names … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Dad, fatherhood, Tips for new Dads
Tagged Breastfeeding, Family, Father, Infant, Parent
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It’s “guess the baby stats” time
I suspect the hope that Mrs II has that the latest twinge is a signal of labour starting has nothing to do with wanting to gently stroke her new borns forehead, to hold the wrapped infant as it nuzzles her … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Dad, fatherhood
Tagged Birth weight, Brie, Childbirth, health, Infant, Pregnancy and Birth
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My (very) pregnant valentine
2 weeks to go (roughly) 2 weeks until you swap the pain in your back and cramping for the muddled fog of sleep deprivation that will come from a helpless, hungry new-born sleeping beside us. Which is why I’m proposing … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Dad, fatherhood
Tagged Family, Home, Parenting, pregnancy, Sleep deprivation, Valentine Day
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Here we go again: A fortnight of contradictions
I am living in a house of contrasts. Well, I call it contrasts, my wife calls it you-have-no-idea-what-I’m-going-through-growing-YOUR-baby. I’ve just spent the last two weeks at home being a full time dad, and loved it. My wife has spent the … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Dad, fatherhood
Tagged Australia, Family, Fear, Home, Peppa Pig, pregnancy, Prenatal development, Wife
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Teaching giving to a toddler
If ever there was proof of the change in modern parenting techniques, it has to be my daughter, sitting on the toilet, swiping through photos on my iPad. She’s moved past the “passively watching” stage and now turns it on, … Continue reading
Sometimes it all just works
Like many bloggers, I’ve used my inability to predict, understand or control the actions and thoughts of the bundle of excitement that is our 2.5yo daughter as a rich source of material to write about. Writing about my parental failure … Continue reading
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Read me in four months…
Kev, If, through your haze of sleep deprivation and bewilderment you remember to read this when your supposed to, you’ll have recently become the proud father of your second child. By my rough calculations you’ll have just bought said child home from the … Continue reading
the illiterate infant 