Being woken by some noises can be quite nice. Rain, bird song, room service delivering your luxury breakfast. Your wife being sick isn’t one of them.

I’ll admit that the category introduction for the pregnancy category isn’t really what happened. This however is. It was late August and Fiona had been feeling under the weather for a couple of day. She was feeling tired, her muscles ached and she generally wasn’t feeling herself. My initial thoughts when she started feeling like [...]

Carrying a baby around in your belly for 9 months can’t be easy. But neither is getting the nursery ready, especially if you are as crap at DIY as I am. We have been modernising our house over the last few years. We fitted a new kitchen, re-plastered our living room, purchased a new corner [...]

We had seen our baby on screen and as an ex scout I know it pays to be prepared. Lets get some names. Well at 12 weeks a doctor can’t tell the sex of your baby from a scan so we (and 90% of other parents to be) decided to finalise names for a boy [...]

Finding out I was going to be a dad was scary enough, but when complications lead to a trip to A & E, things suddenly come into perspective.

Cravings are a part of pregnancy. Some women get very strong cravings that last throughout their pregnancy, others get none or very short lived cravings. Up until now choosing what to have for tea was a case of looking in the fridge, cupboards and freezer. Now it’s a bit more random. “Can we have chicken?” [...]

Unlike prams, we only really looked at 2 or 3 cots. For a start we went to Mamas and Papas to check out what posh people would buy. I must admit there is some very nice children’s nursery furniture in Mamas and Papas although it comes as a price. £800 for a children’s wardrobe, £600 [...]

Man I was excited. Not only was it 3 days till Christmas but I was going to see Spud again. The 20 week scan is a big deal. Firstly most couples say that 20 weeks is the safe point. Passing 20 weeks means you can breathe again and even maybe start buying clothes if you [...]

3 wheels, 4 wheels, black, blue, red, heavy, light, twin turbo, 18” alloys buying a pram can be on par with buying a car especially if you want to look cool when pushing your new born. Pregnancy holds a lot of choices some of which are harder than others. I honestly had never thought much [...]

There are many pinnacle moments for a dad during pregnancy. Finding out your going to be a dad is amazing but seeing your baby moving around on the screen for the first time truly rocks your world. And yes I cried again. After an initial rocky start the next 6 weeks have flown by. Today [...]