My little 2-month-old recognized me yesterday. He’s been pretty interactive lately, smiling and cooing for the past couple of weeks. And he loves to be stimulated to giggle and laugh. But yesterday was different. I had put him down for a nap, and, as he is a cat napper, after about 25 minutes, I heard […]
Fright? or Flight?
Yes, I know it’s commonly known as the FIGHT or flight reflex. But I seem to have a mutated reflex that I call “FRIGHT” or flight. That is, if something startles me, I either freak out, go into self-paralysis and then start screaming:Fright. Or I run away (also screaming): Flight. Our baby may look like […]
DAD’S LOG: Baby Science 101
I never expected our baby to know science so early. Now, if you ask him a question…he will simply either stare at you with a blank look…or smile with that “your Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me” look…or he will simply grunt and soil his diaper! (hmm…maybe that is his answer?) Either way, he […]
Baby Buggy: Baby’s First Outing
It’s SOP to record all baby “firsts.” This post is a bit late, but… I wanted to make good on Baby’s First Outing. Now, I don’t mean to say that our baby has been an agoraphobe all his short life and never left the house. But primarily his outings have been limited to Target, BabiesRUs, […]
6 Ways New Moms Can Take Care of Themselves
Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. ~ Ann HeckerlingEveryone warned I would be “tired.” They did mention “work.” And I heard the admonition “sleep when the baby sleeps” ad nauseum. Did I heed? Not really. The scope of the advice did not sink in until after baby […]
Safety Pins No More!
Everyone thinks I’m crazy. Well… they pretty much did anyway, but now that I’m going to go the cloth diaper route, they actually come out and SAY I’m crazy! It’s okay – being crazy is kinda fun most of the time… But this begs the question of why do I have to defend my diapering […]
DAD’S LOG: Name Bracket-ology
Some people say that having a child is a big decision. I say naming the child is even bigger! Although there was time for me to think and reflect about names, I soon learned of my glaring deficiencies. You see, my wife had spent some “time” thinking about names too. If you call developing and […]
What They Never Tell You About Breastfeeding, or, Why I Have Grated Potatoes In My Bra
Okay – the pictures in the books and magazines have it all wrong. The peaceful mother, serene of face, warmly wrapped in a fuzzy robe with shiny hair cascading gently down her shoulders is gazing lovingly down at her babe-in-arms, who nuzzles contentedly against her, calmly feeding in that “au naturale” state – breast-feeding. Supposedly, […]
DAD’S LOG: A Dad Ramble
Dad…the final frontier…this is the continuing voyage of And Baby Makes Three: Dad’s Log. Had to throw out a little homage to Star Trek, the real one. Not that the others were bad, but James Tiberius Kirk is the standard. As a matter of fact, Tiberius was a top name choice…….I wish, never saw the […]
Getting to know you…
Jeremiah 1:5 – …Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee… Shortly after our little boy was born, as most new moms do, I experienced that rush of emotions which inevitably leads to inexplicable bouts of tears and weepiness. One of the strangest things I found myself crying over was the fact that […]
