Week Thirty Seven: Not that I ever massage children, mind you…
Mental note: apparently, “Sucks to be you” is not an acceptable response after your mrs grumbles about how uncomfortable she is. You may feel I’m being harsh, and I probably […]
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Week Thirty Two: “He just slipped out…honest.”
This week we attended an antenatal home birth class down at some Quaker centre in the local town. Jess had concerns about being the largest pregnant woman there, and rightly […]
Week Twenty Nine: All she needs now are the tiny little arms
You know when you’re sat on the loo after a particularly challenging steak the night before, and you know it’s going to be a big one, yet you also know […]
Week Twelve: Yeah, that’s probably just sweat…
Many of the pregnancy books that I have read and the articles I’ve skimmed through on the internet talk of a “pregnancy glow” around this time. As I look up […]
Week Eleven: Butterflies
Jess is not feeling too great at the moment. The vomiting seems to have stopped, but she’s feeling generally rough; she looks it too, although I wouldn’t tell her without […]
Week Ten: Breaking the news, and the cheesecake conundrum
They’ve all gone to pot, our timescales. I don’t know if I’m coming or going. I spend my minutes in a wide-eyed stupor as I look fleetingly around the room, […]
Week Nine: Rainbow yawns, and a hole in my wallet
The morning sickness has now struck Jess with aplomb, causing her to blow chunks on a regular basis right in the middle of a weekend visiting old family friends (I […]
Week Eight: Fingers crossed…
“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 […]
Week Seven: It’s a plug, but there’s no chain
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 […]
Week Six: Oh my…what IS that?!
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 […]
