Time to be a dad
June 7, 2022 Fashionably Late There were pros and cons when it came to the baby arriving later than the due date. On one hand, I had incrementally more time to get our place ready and familiarize myself with all the new baby gears. On the other, I had to watch my wife continuing to…
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By the time my daughter was born, both she and my wife had been through the ordeal of 3-day-long labor. Now, anything that takes 3 days pretty much has “exhaustion” written all over it, let alone labor. While it broke my heart to see my wife endure the agony, tedium, and frustration, I forgot to…
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It was a typical early morning of a mid-summer day. The coolness of the night was just giving way to the eager sun that would soon blanket the city with its scorching heat. That was when I caught myself in a delicate moment as the world outside hung in the balance between darkness and light,…
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If you know me, you probably know how much I hate guessing. And no, it doesn’t get better when my daughter’s life depends on it. So, imagine my delight as I spent much of her first month on guesswork like “Are you hungry?” “Are you sleepy?” “Do you want the ice cream in my hand?”…
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The Greater Vancouver Area is well-known for its bountiful supply of hiking trails. If you attempt one per week, it will literally take years to complete all of them. The most famous among those is arguably the Grouse Grind. The name says it all. It’s a grind so make no mistake about it. Though the…
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It sometimes helps to throw a dash of whimsy at the bonfire of chaos. What’s the worst that’s gonna happen? To that end, I’ve tried different ways to find amusement in the midst of the pandemonium conjured by my daughter. Sometimes I repeat her exact crying voice verbatim, only louder. Sometimes I converse with her…
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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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