Somehow I thought Godzilla was a woman?
Archive for April, 2007
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A model father
My wife was reading the recent Time Magazine and read an article to me about the outsourcing of breast milk? The outsourcing of nursing? Well - I paused and thought about the ancient practice of wet nursing. I am all for breast feeding, except for the fact that your wife will likely not let you near her breasts during this time…but the idea of cross nursing? The article describes neighbors in my home town of San Jose, CA who cross nursed with her neighbor. Ok…I can understand the need for nutritional help but to make this a social activity with the neighbor? Well, back the main topic of this as a lucrative job. The article writes that wet nurses or those that are hired for pay to nurse your children, earn about $1,000/week. My wife was amazing to have nursed both of our kids for about a year. She pumped and banked milk for bottle feeding when she had to travel or was just to tired to do it anymore and me bottle feed them. A friend nursed her twins like a machine for months - what a task. I just can’t imagine hiring a nanny, nurser and housekeeper. I guess in our day of outsourcing this concept should not be so odd? What are your thoughts?
A clip from the new ABC comedy - Notes from the Underbelly. You have to live it to get the jokes. This show is dead on!
Welcome to the birth of our blog. I call this our blog because it is for dads by dads. Having 6 years of being the only dad at the park, birthday party or doctors appointment got me thinking about our lonely daddy existence. The piles of magazines, books and parenting podcasts are all about the mama. Well - there is a reason for it - with the trauma of the mama and the openness of the dialogue they share. What was there is there for us - the babies daddy? We are left to make the gear decisions, push the stroller and change the diapers. If you are a hands on dad like me then share and come back for the stories. If you are a daddy to be then come and ask questions. If you are a hands off daddy then what are you doing here?
I am collecting the stories, advice, reviews and media from friends and strangers that like you and I are the babies daddies. I will have a regular podcast and vodcast along with the posts to hear the stories from dads like us.
