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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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I’m going to be a father? How’s that work?

July 28, 2009 Fatherhood

My wife is now 26 weeks pregnant. 6 months pregnant pretty much on the nose. So she’s showing quite a bit, and this whole father thing is slowly becoming more real. Is this the way it’s supposed to happen? You tell me. Anyway, let me give you a little background. It’s our first kid, it’s [...]

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