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Please, don't turn your kid into a car bumper

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:13:53 -0500

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Circumcision: Please just get me a lollipop

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:09:55 -0500

Disclaimer: Included in this post is discussion of foreskin carving, head cheese and Charms blow pops. If you're sensitive to this kind of thing, please keep on reading. But be prepared to squirm.

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The Moro reflex, aka, The Chuckle of the Holy Spirit

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:48:25 -0500

I have heard the sound of God laughing. It is the sound of my child jerking awake just as he is about to fall asleep. It is the Moro reflex.

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Baby strangling stations in San Jose

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:26:37 -0500

So I'm in San Jose, Calif. for a few days for work, staying at The Fairmont, which is a nice hotel. This morning I had to use their lobby restroom and noticed this picture attached to the handicapped stall:

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Two stories of sleep deprivation

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:48:09 -0500

I remember the good old days, when I used to think I knew what sleep deprivation was. Back then, sleep deprivation was cramming all night for a final, or going on a bender over the weekend. But here's the thing about that kind of sleep deprivation: You could always catch up the next night.

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6 Useless baby products

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:24:15 -0500

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Delivery, or: How my son was playing Mardi Gras with his umbilical cord

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:06:35 -0500

Though I skipped a few posts, let's go back a few weeks to the end of Bea's delivery of our son, Matthew. Mainly because it was so much fun and stress-free.

Last I wrote, it was 9:30am and Bea had her bag manually broken. A nurse had already asked her if her pain was "acceptable to her," which garnered some glances to one another from Bea and me, and we had other women arrive later and deliver earlier than us, which was a joy.

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Funny looks from the Walgreens cashier

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:07:25 -0500

Last week my wife asked me to pick up a couple things on my way home. My son Matthew seemed a little warm to the touch, and we thought that he might have a fever.

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The obligatory, cheesy Father's Day post

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:36:28 -0500

There was a column in the Chicago Tribune recently defending the necktie as a good Father's Day gift. Hogwash.

It's true that when fathers are asked what they want for Father's Day, they'll probably say nothing. That could be because they think you're asking what material thing they want. And as for material things, most fathers couldn't really give a damn.

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Thanks Billy Crystal: some notes (literally) on labor

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:44:47 -0500

As your or your wife’s pregnancy nears the finish line (to the right is Bea about 9 months in), you’ll want to come up with a list of things to bring to the hospital: clothes, toiletries, a digital camera. I brought a book, I guess thinking that in the two minutes between my wife’s contractions, I’d have time to sit back and read James Joyce’s Ulysses.