“Our baby looks gross.” states my wife, as she squints at a photo on the internet, nostrils flared slightly in a sickly grimace. “Kind of like a deformed alien.” I look at the photo, and am inclined to agree. Although it is looking more and more like a person each day, you’d still look twice [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Week Eight: Fingers crossed…
Posted in pregnancy, tagged early pregnancy, fatherhood, first trimester, parenting, pregnancy on February 26, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Week Seven: It’s a plug, but there’s no chain
Posted in pregnancy, tagged early pregnancy, fatherhood, first trimester, parenting, pregnancy on February 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
During this week your baby has a bit of a growth spurt, jumping from 3mm at the start of the week (about the size of a grain of rice) to 11-13mm by the end. The buds that are arms and legs now have ‘plates’ at the end of them, with tiny bumps that are beginning [...]
Week Six: Oh my…what IS that?!
Posted in pregnancy, tagged babies, early pregnancy, embryo, fatherhood, first trimester, foetus, parenting, pregnancy on February 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I have some advice for you, fathers: whatever you do, try not to look at any photographs of foetuses at this stage of pregnancy. Although the fact that they are about the size and shape of a baked bean sounds cute, they sure as heck don’t look it. It sounds mean, and you mustn’t mention [...]
Week Five: Tact is the Best Tactic…
Posted in pregnancy, tagged babies, fatherhood, first trimester, pregnancy on February 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Chances are, after the initial excitement, you’re both going to begin to worry – probably about different things. You may start to get concerned about finances, whereas she is probably going to be freaking out about how big she’s going to get or the labour she’ll have to go through in eight months’ time; which [...]
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