In case anyone was wondering, I’m not going to go into any of the gory details of the actual birthing. That’s the kind of fun you’ll just have to experience for yourself (or possibly watch your significant other go through).
I just wanted to relate my experience of the paperwork that was needed to register baby [...]
I often get asked about my experience of having a baby in Dubai: What was it like? Is the medical care any good? Does my child have UAE citizenship?
I’ll tackle the last question first. No, baby HB does not get automatic UAE citizenship. It’s near impossible to do so if a child is born from [...]
My little one was born December 20th at 7 lbs 4 oz and 21.26 inches. For you metric people, that would be 3.29 kg and 54 cm.
Here he is at 2 days old:
Here he is at 6 days old all curled up in his daddy’s hand:
Obviously I didn’t do so well in my attempt to post every single day. My goodness, I even skipped an entire month! Ah well.
Today is the baby’s “official” due date but he seems to be showing no signs of wanting to come out just yet. I have an induction scheduled for Dec 20th [...]
Okay, I swear I meant to post the below yesterday! But for some reason my picture upload function wasn’t working on Wordpress and I tried 2 laptops, Firefox, IE, Chrome but nothing seems to work! When I click the upload button, there is supposed to be another window that pops up for me to choose [...]
So it’s been more than one month since I’ve returned to Dubai after summer vacation spent in NYC, Chicago, France, and Switzerland. And what have I got to show for it?
Nada.
The baby room is still completely empty (well, we did buy a rug for it…but then decided to keep it for ourselves so moved it [...]
4 months since my last post – wow – I am such a bad blogger. I could tell you how I was busy with work, friends, family, etc but the truth is…that…I…just…didn’t…feel…like…writing. Could this be writer’s block? No, because writer’s block is where I sit in front of a laptop with a blinking cursor staring [...]