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Personal news about my family.
It’s been an experience like no other, but three weeks after Rikuto’s birth, I’m slowly adapting to fatherhood. Here are 10 observations from a new father: Rikuto loves his dummy (or pacifier for my American readers), but when I can’t find it, I let him suck on my knuckles! He doesn’t notice the difference. 😉 Rikuto is very aware of sounds, particularly ice cubes and the sound effect from my […]
With all the excitement of Rikuto’s birth, I completely forgot about our second wedding anniversary! Mami and I tied the knot two years ago today, so I thought I’d take a little trip down memory lane and tell you about how special that day was. We officially registered our marriage on the 22nd, now Rikuto’s birthday, but had the ceremony on a warm, slightly overcast yet otherwise perfect Sunday in […]
Friends, family, and first-time visitors. After blogging about my wife’s pregnancy for much of the last year, our son, Rikuto, was finally born at 9:25am on Sunday, July 22nd 2007, at the prefectural hospital, Gifuken Sougou Iryou Center. I rushed Mami to the maternity clinic at 5:30 in the morning, and it wasn’t long before the doctor realized that her unusually high blood pressure and still too-narrow “escape route” would […]
July 31st is the due date for our firstborn child, Rikuto, and that date is getting very close now. With less than two weeks to go, I thought I’d take a video of my wife’s tummy, so you can see the baby move around for yourselves! You may have to watch it a couple of times before you notice the movement, and I couldn’t catch the best of it on […]
Today was the first day I was able to join Mami at the maternity clinic. Usually when she goes, I’m at work, and it has been very difficult to find a time that suits us both. So, with just over four weeks to go until the baby is due, I was quite excited about our little trip today. The clinic is a very modern looking building with plants everywhere, a […]
I’m writing this post using Windows Speech Recognition so I don’t have to touch the keyboard to write what I want to say. Isn’t that great? Anyway, today I have a great photo of Rikuto from outside his mother’s tummy. Mami is now 34 weeks pregnant and looks it! Since she finished working at the hospital, she has been very busy working around the house. She’s been gardening, doing the […]
When does human life begin? Is it at conception or when a baby is born? If you believe life starts when a baby is conceived then that makes me a father already, so happy Father’s Day to me! In fact, Mami got me my first ever Father’s Day present which you can see me modeling in the photo. On the subject of Father’s Day, I’d like to take his opportunity […]
It’s been a while since my wife and I got a decent picture of our baby boy from the maternity clinic, but now we finally have one that doesn’t look like a cloudy bowl of miso soup. In my post “Making the Baby Bed“, I talked about how pregnancy in Japan lasts 10 months, so although Mami is nine months pregnant, she’s actually only in week 33, with another six […]