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Three weeks into fatherhood

August 13th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

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 [...]

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Baby in Progress - Meet Rikuto!

July 23rd, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

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 [...]

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Baby in Progress - Two weeks to go!

July 19th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

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 [...]

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Baby in Progress - Rikuto at 35 weeks

June 29th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

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 [...]

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Baby in Progress - Rikuto at 34 weeks

June 24th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

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 [...]

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Baby in Progress - 9 months pregnant

June 15th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

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 [...]

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Baby in Progress - Rikuto

March 23rd, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

It’s been a month since Mami last went to the maternity clinic, but she went back today for another check-up, and everything is fine. I wish I could have gone with her, but I can’t deny my students their weekly English class! Nevertheless, I got to see the latest video of Rikuto, the baby formerly [...]

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Baby in Progress - It’s a boy!

February 24th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Since I found out that I’m gonna be daddy, I’ve been posting pictures of the progress Peanut has been making. Today, Mami and I found out that Peanut is a boy! Neither of us minded either way, but I’m quite excited about the prospect of teaching him to ride a bike and play soccer.
We got [...]

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Me British, baby Japanese?

February 8th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

With Mami four months pregnant, we have been thinking about which nationality our child should be. It’s really not a hard decision to choose Japanese as Peanut’s nationality since he or she will be born and raised in Japan and take Mami’s family name.
However, I’ve just been reading about birth registration on the British Embassy’s [...]

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Baby in Progress - 4 months pregnant

January 24th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

It’s been four months now since Mami became pregnant and I’ve been posting each time she’s come back from the clinic with a new photo. If you missed the previous posts, here are the photos so far. It’s fascinating to see how ‘Peanut’ has grown. We started at six weeks with nothing visible except for [...]

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Baby in Progress - Week 9

January 1st, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Mami is in her third month of labor now, and ‘Peanut’ is making some great progress. You can now clearly see his or her head, hands and feet! It’ll be another month before Mami goes back to the clinic so I can’t wait to see how much Peanut will have grown by then. Stay tuned!
Peanut [...]

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I’m gonna be a daddy!

November 18th, 2006 by Nick Ramsay

I’m not sure how reliable these pregnancy tests are, but it looks like I’m going to be a daddy!

What with the news yesterday that our mortgage request has been approved and now the likelyhood of Mami and I becoming parents next year, it’s been quite a weekend!
Sure, it could be a false alarm, but the [...]

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