Glad we cleared that up. It was the 15th August 2009 when my wife, Jess, came up to me and announced she was pregnant. We’d been trying for a baby for eight months with no luck, and had almost come to expect that the little reading on the pregnancy test would be negative – so [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Week Four: a stick, some urine and a little blue cross
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Week One
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…or is it Week 4? I can never get my head around this, and I don’t think anyone really understands it, even the people who made it up. My wife has tried to explain it to me; it’s something to do with the first day of their last period, or the last day of their [...]
Foreword
Posted in pregnancy, tagged baby, childbirth, expectant parents, fatherhood, pregnancy, pregnant on January 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I once read somewhere in the nether regions of the internet that the first known contraceptive was cow’s dung, employed by the Egyptians back in 2000BC. I’m thinking that’s probably got to be the most effective contraception ever. I have no idea how it was used, where it was slathered, or how it worked, but I [...]
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