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ACCORDING TO (BIRTH) PLAN

Posted on 05 August 2009 , under Dad-To-Be

I have to admit that when I first heard about the notion of birth plans that like most new dads-to-be I conjured up images of scented candles and whale music – how wrong I was, well kind of.....

Birth plans play a pivotal role in the act of child birth. There are choices, decisions (and positions!)

FIRST TRIMESTER

Posted on 02 March 2010 , under Dad-To-Be

It 'ALL' starts when one of your sperm burrows into her egg. It will hopefully end with the birth of your progeny. The nine month journey between these moments is an incredibly complicated process, and over the course of three articles we are going to try and simplify it a little - there are three articles as pregnancy is divided

SECOND TRIMESTER

Posted on 01 April 2010 , under Dad-To-Be

The second trimester runs from weeks 13-26, and during this time your partner is going to start looking more like a pregnant woman, and the realisation that you are actually going to become a dad will become more difficult to ignore. The risk of miscarriage is much lower once you have completed the first trimester, and a lot of

READY STEADY LABOUR!

Posted on 01 June 2010 , under Dad-To-Be

Is it Starting?

It is quite common that your partner will have some contractions over the last few months of pregnancy. These are known as Braxton Hicks contractions, are more uncomfortable than painful, are not regular and do not gradually increase in intensity. The pains in labour will occur with increasing frequency, and become gradually longer and

DAD DONORS REQUIRED!

Posted on 02 August 2011 , under Health

In April 2009 we discovered that my wife Susan was pregnant, we had three boys already, all had been fairly routine pregnancies and, as this was number 4 we were relaxed and looking forward to another arrival in November.

The first hint that this would be a different experience was at Susan’s 20 week scan. The sonographer

AFTERBIRTH ANTICS

Posted on 01 March 2011 , under Dad-To-Be

It is true to say, as so many of us men do, that ‘my wife is going into labour’ – for labour consists of various stages that pregnant women must go through before they get to cradle their new baby for the very first-time.

The first stage consists of the early, active and transitional phases. The