Recently K Honey and I started talking about storing our child’s cord blood, the blood in the umbilical cord. This blood usually is discarded but with the recent advancements in science and the potential power of stem cells (which can be found in cord blood) there seem to be more and more reasons to preserve [...]

According to our little widget in the sidebar, there are less than 100 days until our child will arrive! K Honey is gettin’ pretty… pregnant. I mean, don’t get me wrong, she looks great! But it’s really starting to show and she feels more and more limited by her condition. She has trouble bending over, [...]

Last night was kind of a late night, for us anyway. K Honey and I went to a friend’s birthday party at a local club. It’s one of those mega mega clubs that can fit literally over a thousand people in it. Not our favorite place, but then again, we don’t get out much to [...]

OK, this I just can’t understand. Apparently… men can think that they are pregnant.
It’s called Sympathy Pregnancy or Couvade syndrome and apparently, men may go through all the pregnant feelings… like cravings, mood swings, and even the weight gains!
To avoid reiterating the article, which is very well written and cited, I’ll just give me interpretation.
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There’s been a bit of a delay since my last post… the response was overwhelming and I’m still responding to the comments. I’m happy to see that my blog is off to a good start
There was a lot of discussion about a father’s participation in the birth of his child. The discussion from [...]

In mid-April, the British Daily Mail published an opinion written by Michel Odent, a renown obstetrician. In the opinion, Dr. Odent argues that the delivery room is no place for a husband. Not only is the father’s presence unneeded, it also is a hinderance to his wife’s labor. As a result, a husband unwittingly [...]

At the time of writing this post, my wife is pregnant with our first child. It’s all new to us, so things can be awing, frustrating, strange, touching but usually a mix of all four.
Lying in bed on the weekend in the morning, K will sometimes place my hand on her belly. In my half [...]