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Nurturing Babies and Email Marketing

October 7, 2009 Email Marketing

As any of you who have read my blog know, my wife’s about to give birth to our first child (see any post about “fatherhood” from earlier). And in thinking about all of the work, sacrifice, sweat, tears, and exhaustion I’m about to endure (with more than a fair share of help from my beautiful [...]

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Acknowledging Mortality with a Baby

September 28, 2009 Fatherhood

My wife’s roughly five weeks away from delivering our first child (again, a girl, it’s our first, that’s the lowdown). Overall it’s been a pretty normal pregnancy; nothing really exciting–which frankly is a good thing. As she’s getting bigger (naturally), she’s officially to the point where she wants the baby to come out already. Her [...]

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Baby Update – Week 30

August 30, 2009 Fatherhood

My wife is now 30 weeks pregnant (plus a few days). On Wednesday we had our 30 week appointment. Everything looks good. My baby girl has a fat head and long legs (just like her daddy–cute!). She weighs 3.7 pounds already, so we’re looking at close to 9 pounds if she goes full-term. The doctors [...]

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We are prepared for childbirth (at least we think so)

August 15, 2009 Fatherhood

A large chunk of today was spent at Childbirth Preparation Class. And outside of being the only couple in the room that wasn’t a month away from their due date–a bit awkward, but my wife’s a planner–the class was perfectly fine. Admittedly, we weren’t really surprised by the majority of the information provided (again, my [...]

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The first Holy Crap realization that I’m going to be a dad

August 8, 2009 Fatherhood

When I first learned that my wife was pregnant for real (as in after the first appointment), I hand-wrote down my feelings in what was to be a journal. I haven’t handwritten anything about it since. Just too busy or whatever. But I came across that piece of paper today, and felt it would be [...]

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