New parents and our journey of discovery with our little Sprout, Aaron

Feeding tip to keep mom sane

Ok, here is a little tip we find handy.  First, moms should think about expressing at least 1 bottle a day.  There is a good reason for this you see.  Dads can take that bottle and administer to junior at 3am and give mom a decent break of 5 to 6 hours in between the […]

Aaron sleeping

I thought I’d capture this video of my little boy sleeping this morning …
Aaron sleeping from Paul Jacobson on Vimeo.

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Stem cells

We decided to harvest stem cells from Aaron’s umbilical cord and have them placed into storage should we ever need them. The company we went with is Netcells and although our hope is that we never need them, we are really glad that we have them. There has been quite a controversy over […]

Growing like a bean sprout

Well we just got back from a checkup and Aaron is doing great. He has put on close to 300g since birth and has grown about 4cm. The sister was very happy with his growth so even with all the spitting up and curdled milk vomiting, he is doing just fine.
The sister told […]

Baby wipes drive me nuts

Ok, so we have Pampers Baby Wipes which are essential (at least to us) for cleaning Aaron when we change his nappy. They are terrific and I couldn’t imagine an easier nappy change without them. The problem with them, though, is that whenever I pull one out, I get 2 or 3 instead […]

Babies should come with subtitles

Aaron has started to spit up some of the milk from his feeds from time to time. He even vomits the stuff up (Gina says the while stuff that looks like curdled milk is his vomit). Now 3 weeks ago I would have run for the hills at the sight of baby spit […]

A moment…

Life is filled with them, that short space of time when you realise something special has just happened, a moment in time to treasure.
That’s what I experienced at 1:45am last Monday.  A moment of pure light when I realised that our son would soon be born.
Since then I have experienced more than my fair share […]