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Fatherhood²: Guest Post – The Joy of Twins, Part 1

Posted on April 10, 2012March 1, 2018 by Henry Elliss

‘I’m still funny. I’m still creative. I’m still kind of hip. I’m still sane.’ This is the mantra I have been repeating to myself for the past three years. The past three years have seemed long and short at the same time. The day they were born was the best and most stressful day of…

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Fatherhood²: V-BACk to That Old Chestnut Again…

Posted on March 15, 2012March 1, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Back in June 2011, just one week before Freddie was born, I wrote a post about the curious subject of “VBAC” – aka “Vaginal Birth After Caesarian. If you didn’t read it back then, you might like to quickly now before I go on, as things have taken an interesting turn this week: Fatherhood²: “VBAC…

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Fatherhood²: “VBAC for good” and other strange things

Posted on June 24, 2011January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Today was our 38-week hospital appointment – the (hopefully) final appointment before baby arrives: an appointment which we never got to in Robert’s case. As far as I can tell, the only thing they actually did – after almost 90 minutes of waiting and 3 different medical professionals – was check Sara’s urine sample and…

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Fatherhood²: T-minus 2 Weeks and Counting

Posted on June 18, 2011March 3, 2018 by Henry Elliss

At 38 weeks, this week marks the time in our first pregnancy when Robert was born – so anticipation is running fairly high in our house at the moment. As with most pregnancies, Sara is looking a little bigger this time around (supposedly the muscles having relaxed more during the last pregnancy causes more “expansion”…

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Fatherhood²: The Madnezz of baybee naming in 2011

Posted on March 31, 2011March 31, 2011 by Henry Elliss

So I was planning to write a blog post about the waxing and waning of popular baby names, but I’ve been a little derailed… Sara and I are still 3 months away from the arrival of Baby 2.0, but we’re obviously now spending a bit of time thinking about baby names. I personally quite impressed…

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Fatherhood²: Guest Post – Thoughts on the arrival of baby no. 3

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Henry Elliss

Historians will be pleased to know that I kept a record of events leading up to the birth of our first two children in the form of a baby diary that I used to publish on a long forgotten family website. As these were written seven and five years ago respectively, reading them again gave…

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Fatherhood²: Things I’ve learnt along the way – Midwives

Posted on January 20, 2011February 3, 2011 by Henry Elliss

One of the original reasons I wanted to start blogging about fatherhood was the experiences Sara and I had when Robert was first born. As well as being born by emergency caesarian (an impressive 3 hours between waters breaking and the cutting of the cord!), Robert was just 6lbs 2oz at birth, and also had…

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A few photos from my slightly hair-raising morning A few photos from my slightly hair-raising morning walk. Some lovely sunrises, lots of ice on the canal and a couple of rivers and lakes that were quickly merging together, at the expense of the newly-laid track. At least my wellies stayed strong!
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