Time to be a dad
Few things in life challenge the definition of “normal” than newborns. In fact, the most frequent response we received from nurses and midwives was, “That is normal.” I was utterly surprised by my daughter in so many ways which turned out to be normal that I doubted if I was normal. “Does everybody know this?…
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You are right, I think too much. Had I bitten the bullet for the past 6 weeks and kept biting on it to the point of chewing it through and through, my life could have been arguably more tolerable. After all, doing takes less work than doing plus thinking, right? But that ship has long…
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Tummy time… This has got to be one of the most promoted activities for newborns with close to political vigor. Having read a few posts from Google on this topic, I am getting the feeling that if I fail to put in enough tummy time for my daughter, she will never graduate high school or…
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I’m beginning to think a formal introduction between my baby and me could have been a profoundly constructive thing to do. Why the formality (or absurdity), you ask? When I dove into this dad thing head first, I began with an implied expectation for a certain closeness between us, as if our relationship must hit…
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I always had these questions before about newborns, but never had a chance to find out for myself until now. So here goes a Q&A on the first month: Q: What does a newborn feel like?A: A sac of potatoes. Q: What does a newborn sound like?A: Fire truck. Oh, you mean when she’s not…
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The Calm and the Storm The moment I had my very first skin-to-skin time with my daughter, the whole world quietly froze into a surreal crystal of happiness and bewilderment. The preceding fast-paced, cross-functional, everybody-was-an-expert-except-me-and-I-was-trying-not-to-get-in-anyone’s-way experience in the OR came to a screeching halt when my daughter and I were left to ourselves in the…
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