Category: Parenting
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Hello world
Apart from not knowing what day of the week it is, and from almost burning down the house because I fell asleep while sterilising things the old fashioned way (we have since purchased an automatic steriliser), Naomi and I are settling in to parenthood very well. Our son is 8 days old today, and the…
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And people keep on giving
I have to word this very carefully so as not to get the kind people in trouble. At an unnamed hospital yesterday where I’m looking to purchase some unnamed maternity things, an unnamed senior staff attending to me apologizes for not having any of the things for sale because of stock issues. She then whispers…
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Parenting tips with your trim and wash?
It’s like this cult of parenting, this club of happy enthusiastic people who’ve been so nice and welcoming to Naomi and I ever since they’ve known Naomi was expecting. There have been random acts of kindness and completely unsolicited advice from complete strangers – “this baby nail scissors is really good, you should get it”;…
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Pregnancy brains
No, I’m not talking about Naomi and her pregnancy hormone induced faux pas. Because even if I did and she read it here, she would have killed me so it wouldn’t be funny anymore. It’s the waiting staff at restaurants in Singapore. They keep asking if Naomi (who is now 8 months pregnant) would like…
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Reason to try to smile
My father doesn’t smile very often these days. It takes an effort because Parkinson’s makes control of your muscles, including the facial ones, difficult, and the sufferer becomes withdrawn and unsocial because of his inability to interact in the ways we normally do. Conversation is also a strain because of the difficulty in controlling the…