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Archive for July, 2008

On Мама Корова.

Posted in Babies, Childbirth, Motherhood, tagged , , on July 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »

“What colour are your nipples?” the man on the other end of the phone asked.
Which neatly illustrates something about giving birth that you should have been more prepared for after faithfully watching All Creatures Great and Small every Sunday evening* as a lass.
This series, undoubtedly the epitome of heartwarming Sunday evening TV drama, catalogues the [...]

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On firsts.

Posted in Babies, Motherhood, tagged on July 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Today the Star smiled at you.
Admittedly this occurred while you were peering intently into his face and smiling at him, and if you peer intently into his face an stick your tongue out he does that too.
Admittedly also B says he reckons he was smiling at him yesterday.
But nevertheless, today the Star smiled at you.

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On breastfeeding.

Posted in Babies, Motherhood, tagged on July 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »

One of the things that puzzled you in the run up to The Birth was the was the way that all the medical professionals you came in contact with took every opportunity they could to go on and on (and on and on and ON) about breastfeeding.
It’s not that you don’t understand the importance of [...]

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On the buses.

Posted in Childbirth, Football, Pregnancy, Public Transport, Russia, tagged , on July 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »

So the contractions you were displaying proudly for the world here on the 20th, weren’t.
They were, according to the midwives, ’tightenings’ and, officially, did not hurt. 
A comment which, by your third visit to the hospital for monitoring, after you had had a night of napping for five or ten minutes before being catapulted upright by a [...]

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