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		<title>A letter to Nelson: month four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Nelson,
Unbelievably, you are now four months old, and what a month the past one has been.
There have been a couple of major achievements this month, which make your father and me justifiably proud.
1. The sleeping through the night thing.
The other morning I woke up wondering why the birds were singing at 3am. In reality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=42&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/a-letter-to-nelson-month-four/</link>
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		<title>A letter to Nelson: month three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Schmoo,
I am struggling to believe that next week you will be three months old. Something strange happens in adult brains, I think, when it comes to time and babies. The hours when you scream your displeasure at how tired you are seem to drag on forever. And yet it feels to me like only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=38&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/a-letter-to-nelson-month-three/</link>
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		<title>A letter to Nelson: month two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear son,
A-ga-ga. A-goo-goo.
Last week you turned two months old and overnight became a new baby. One day you were a squished up little red thing, and the next you had discernible facial features and a newfound ability to talk back to your parents, a fact that continues to delight all three of us.
In the past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=37&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/a-letter-to-nelson-month-two/</link>
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		<title>The sleep monster, junior + senior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, Number One Son has been having sleep troubles. And, also not surprisingly for a newborn baby, he&#8217;s taken to crying as if it&#8217;s a national sport.
After spending 10 months in a nice, warm dark place with meals on tap, being rocked gently to sleep when one feels like it, I&#8217;m not surprised, really, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=36&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/the-sleep-monster/</link>
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		<title>That whole birth thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Number One Son doesn&#8217;t leave me much time for luxuries like writing, eating, or sleeping these days, so I won&#8217;t be banging on in great detail about how the kid eventually got born. I will bang on a bit about some of it, though, thoughtfully organised into procedure, followed by commentary. 
1. Membrane sweep: did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=35&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/that-whole-birth-thing/</link>
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		<title>The aftermath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The danger of expectations &#8230;
What I was expecting, part 1:
A earth mothery, waterbirth with minimal pain relief, definitely no epidurals or surgery, lasting under 24 hours.
What I got, part 1:
A 36 hour labour that never progressed past 4 centimetre dilation, a membrane sweep, three applications of cervix-softening gel, artificial rupture of my membranes, followed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=34&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/the-aftermath/</link>
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		<title>A letter to Nelson: month 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear son,
This Wednesday you turn a month old, a fact that amazes me given that I&#8217;ve read *this* many manuals about parenting, but I am still hopeless inept at the job. I am getting much better as the days pass, however, at blaming my farts on you.
In the past month we have weathered many storms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=29&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/a-letter-to-nelson-month1/</link>
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		<title>Week 41.5: V Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[V-Day to me usually means rolling out the usual answers to questions about whether The Beloved and I actually give a shit about a day nominated by a card company to make them more money than usual.
This year, V-Day took on a different meaning altogether. This year it became VAGINA DAY, and forever shall be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=27&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/week-415-v-day/</link>
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		<title>Week 41: the waiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feb 5. Official due date according to the dragon midwife (now sacked) and own calculations. Get very excited at one sign of vague stomach ache at about 3.30pm. 
Feb 7. Official due date according to the dating scan done when sproglet was 12 weeks old. This is the date, according to Dr Budgie, fabulous GP, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=26&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/week-41-the-waiting/</link>
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		<title>Week 40 and a bit: where are you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear pikelet,
We were just wondering, your parents, why you have decided to be late. given that your parents are consistent over-estimators when it comes to working out how long it takes to get anywhere, and have been late for a sum total of about ooh, three things in their whole lives, our question to you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sprogblog.wordpress.com&blog=1223766&post=25&subd=sprogblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://sprogblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/week-40-and-a-bit-where-are-you/</link>
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