• Preparing For The Birth Of Your First Child

    April 26, 2021

    Preparing for the birth of your first child is an exciting time. While you await the arrival of your new baby, it can be easy to get swept up in the preparations, and that isn’t a bad thing. You can never really prepare for how your life will change once you become parents, and on…

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  • Money Saving Tips When Having A Baby On A Budget

    October 10, 2019

    Having a baby is easily one of the biggest decisions that any couple will make in their adult life, yet strangely it’s also one of the easiest decisions to make. It’s the natural evolution of a relationship between man and woman after getting to know one another and enjoying some couple time, holidays etc. The…

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    How To Save When Expecting A Baby

    September 16, 2016

    With the help of this information, you will be able to find items and services that you and your baby need for very little monetary outlay. It is not a cheap exercise to get ready for the arrival of a new baby, but you can reduce the initial outlay if you just know the best…

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  • Another Baby? No! Well, maybe!

    July 28, 2016

    The other day I published a post called nursery is over lets have another baby. All this has got me to thinking. Do I want another baby really? Well, maybe! I have pro-recreated five times. That’s a lot in today’s world. In fact it’s double the average of 2.4 children per family so I have…

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  • Nursery is over Lets have another Baby!

    July 21, 2016

    R and M finished nursery in the last few days. The year has really gone quickly and it’s now time to enjoy summer and prepare them for their first year of full time school. Now that the twins are soon going to be going to school full-time I think it’s time we had another baby! …

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  • Our journey continues at our local hospital

    October 10, 2014

    This is a follow up from my last post which you can read here. So here we are. Our second day at our local hospital. My wife and I arrived at about 8 o’clock in the morning. We went straight to see our girls. We knew that they’d had an uneventful night because my wife…

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  • The first day at our local hospital

    October 6, 2014

    Following on from my last post, we arrived at our local hospital. When we arrived we were shocked at the size of the neo-natal unit. It’s a big hospital anyway, but when the reality of being there sunk in my wife and I felt emotionally battered. We were had two very tiny babies. One of which…

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  • Our time at the first hospital comes to an end

    October 4, 2014

    Following on from my last post, my wife and I felt much more settled. Knowing where we would be sleeping every night made a huge difference. As did being close to our girls. We could be with them 24/7. It was very comforting. The hospital arranged for my wife to have free food in the cafeteria…

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  • Special Care: The next few days

    October 2, 2014

    This is a follow up to my last parenting post, which you can read here. So, after a very uncomfortable nights sleep in a chair – which didn’t really matter when you consider the grand scale of things. I mean along as I was close to my wife and our girls that’s all that mattered.…

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  • My first few hours in a special care unit

    October 1, 2014

    So the girls have been moved to the neo-natal unit. Before I continue let me just tell you now that nothing could have prepared me for what was going happen next. R was born first weighing 4lb and 3oz. Two minutes later, M arrived weighing 2lb and 11oz’s. I felt lost and helpless. The responsibility…

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