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Friday is Baby Day

This hasn’t, I’ll freely admit, been a Fun Pregnancy. But after all the trials and tribulations, the days and days of scans, the months of worries and the horrible late night hours of Very Dark Thoughts, we finally have something … Continue reading

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Dear Twin

I know I shouldn’t think of you as a person. You never were. You were never going to be. Just an incomplete bunch of bits to make a human. No head, no heart, no chance of life. I really shouldn’t … Continue reading

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The best laid birth plans

“I’ll almost certainly be a dad my tomorrow night,” I said. You’d think I’d have learnt my lesson, wouldn’t you? Thomas didn’t actually turn up until lunchtime on the day after that; and it had been, I can honestly say, … Continue reading

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The last day

When someone has a baby in the movies, it’s a pretty hasty affair. The waters break, they have a few contractions, they push and breathe in short puffs for a bit (often in the back of taxi), and then a … Continue reading

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