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Interview: DaddyNatal

May 13, 2011by Ben Wakeling Leave a comment

The other day I had a piece published on Parentdish, about a man’s view of antenatal classes. In it, I quote Dean Beaumont, who stopped whinging about how tailored towards […]

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"I can feel my waters bulging..."

Week Thirty One: Break out the earplugs, it’s going to get loud

August 6, 2010by Ben Wakeling 5 Comments

I made the mistake the other day of watching a television programme in which they showed childbirth, and now I’m freaking out. Well – I’m quite a laid back person, […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy
Mine was like this.

Week Twenty Four: No more discharge than usual, ma’am

June 18, 2010by Ben Wakeling 3 Comments

With the second trimester being the ‘easiest’ of the trimesters (I put ‘easiest’ in quotation marks so as to imply that none of the trimesters are particularly easy – although […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, Uncategorized
How I imagine my dad looked, although without the Asian-ness.

Week Ten: Breaking the news, and the cheesecake conundrum

March 12, 2010by Ben Wakeling 6 Comments

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, […]

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Figuring Out Fatherhood

My fortnightly column for Parentdish...
The obligatory birth story

Ah, the memories

I want a hold!

The fibs kids tell

A conversation with my baby daughter

A day in the life of my two-year-old son

Little Horrors

Santa's Watching You

Five Things You Will See At Every Nativity Play

Hooray, I'm Back At Work!

Is my son losing his innocence too quickly?

Do you ban your children from watching any kids' TV programmes?

20 years from now

Three days on MacGregor Ward

The horror of playgroups

Potty training: easier said than done

How fortunate we are

Things I’m Doing

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