Oh, baby!
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Our Boy
Taken on a third-class ultrasound machine in a first-rate clinic out in the countryside of a third-world country The Yoshida name lives on!
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23 weeks
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Slow Emergence
So I have a big confession to make: I quit smoking on New Years Day. It’s been a week, a busy week to be sure. Getting up the nerve to quit was a very difficult thing to do, because I enjoyed smoking so much. I was addicted to the act of smoking more than I was to the nicotine. I pretty much proved this by quitting cold turkey with a pack of nicotine gum in my pocket – I never used it, but it was there in case the nicotine withdrawals got in my way at work or something. The physiological effects that nicotine withdrawal had on me were extreme…
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20 weeks
Excuse me, the baby is hungry. //////////////////// Previous progress photos: 15 weeks
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Strange baby products (part 1)
So people are starting to send me strange baby-related links, which is pretty cool. G sent me the first link: If you haven’t given birth yet, the Zaky is great to bring to the hospital when your baby is born. Scent it with your own scent beforehand to help your baby when he/she is in the bassinet next to you or give it to the nurse when your baby is taken to the hospital’s nursery. This way you give your baby “your hand” with your scent, and the nurse can use it to support and position your baby. Also, because your baby smells and feels something constant from birth, the…
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15 weeks
I was going to send this out by email, but Nam said she didn’t mind leaving it as a record up here. She eats often and in respectable quantity, and she says it’s my fault since the baby has my appetite. OK.
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First Glimpses of Posterity
Here is little Fetus swimming about like a tadpole at six weeks: And here’s another shot, as well as a closeup at 8 weeks: The doctor couldn’t get the right angle for the latter shots and at first thought Fetus was actually a pair… TWINS!!! What a scary thought! The world is not ready for Yoshida twins! (The doctor was wrong, though.) ////////////////////////// If Fetus grows up and is freaked out by reading this blogpost, please remember Daddy did this with you in mind. This whole blog, in fact, is a record of who made you. It is only natural that you become the centerpiece.
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Songs in the key of fetus
Somebody at work gave Nam a Mozart for Babies type CD (perhaps this freely downloadable one) – and I cannot state this lovingly enough – but it’s driving me fucking insane. It’s basically Mozart on Valium, and I didn’t exactly start out a Mozart fan anyways. Nam plays it on the Pioneer system I have next to the bed every night, and it’s so babyishly cute I want to pour baby powder in my eyes and watch Happy Tree Friends reruns all night. On the flip side, though, maybe the baby will be a genius, so I guess it’s worth a try. Still, maybe I can convince her to switch…
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T-minus eight months and counting
This post is basically an errata for the due date I wrote in the comments a couple of posts back. The actual due date is May 11 (not May 15). I have been mind melding with the baby in between introducing it to Crowded House and Jack Bauer, and his (her?) Majesty says he (she?) will accept the following as gifts, in order of preference: – 1967 Fastback Mustang – 1978 Chateau Margaux – A hundred fawning nursemaids bursting with milk The only problem is, I don’t know which are genuinely his (her?) ideas, and which are mine…
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Who’s your
Took Nam to get blood tests (all good) and find our “steady” obstetrician today. Found one of the only females in the business in this area, and she tuned out to be solid. Only thing is, she called me “daddy” in Thai (as in, “what does daddy do for a living?”). This is the first time I’ve been called that in a non-joking context my whole life, and it felt weird. But she’s right – I’m gonna be a daddy, and it feels good. It just felt weird to be called that. Just between you and me, though – when the hell did I get so old?
