Pre-Daddy Ditties

Okay we are now into week 19. Here is a short summary. Jooae is eating better and this weeks food is dumplings. She’s eating Korean, Chinese, steamed, fried, anything wrapped around a delicate flour wrapping. She also is less nauseous which is always a good thing. She thinks that maybe, [...]

So, I have decided to include, amongst my little ‘observations’ of pregnancy from the man’s perspective, weekly updates of what is going on with Jooae and the baby - especially now that things are getting more interesting. Therefore every Monday will be a recap of the progression of the pregnancy. The first thing [...]

I would do anything: including getting pho - you know, Vietnamese beef noodle soup - 5 times in the last week and a half. It seems my dearest one has moved from PB&J (see last post) to craving this soupy, noodley goodness. I try to ply her with other possible foods, but now [...]

Okay it has been a month since I wrote the previous blogs and Jooae is pretty much out of the ‘morning’ sickness stage. She is still not crazy about food (and forget about vitamins). Since we have now gotten to this place, I want to give a shout out to something I couldn’t have [...]

We had our first ultrasound today. Once again I was armed with only the knowledge gained from TV (see ‘Morning’ Sickness is a Lie) about ultrasounds. On TV they are these fuzzy pictures that no one can really decipher except for the doctor. Armed with this incredibly sound knowledge, I went into [...]

FOR MEN
Okay, I am speaking to you guys here. You know how we complain about going to the doctor and getting that ‘look-right-and-cough’ exam with our pants pulled down to our knees? Stop whining because it is nothing like what women have to go through at their female doctor visits.

OKAY WOMEN CAN JOIN [...]

I discovered, while still in the midst of Jooae’s ‘morning’ sickness, that I have a new job. I am a short order cook. Ding-ding now open for business. With food in general and vitamins in particular causing Jooae such pain, it has been a challenge to find things that appeal to her. [...]

As previously mentioned, Jooae is not a happy camper in her first trimester since the, mis-named, ‘morning’ sickness has taken over (please let it end after the 12th week). I am now in a very interesting position as the husband. Up to this point, we have always had a division of labor around the [...]

Jooae was doing great that first week we found out she was pregnant. We were reading online about what to expect and everything was on track. We told our families and were generally feeling right as rain. Oh how that changed in the next week - the sixth week of pregnancy. Now [...]

I was slumbering as only one does on an early holiday morning - deeply. I groggily realized that Jooae was standing over me waving some contraption in the air and being all giddy-like. Before I was fully with it, she was declaring that she was pregnant. I realized the contraption was a [...]