Colin Dullaghan

We’ve learned a lot over these past ten weeks since Veda’s birth, to say the least. And not just vocabulary expansion, either. (Though I’ll admit that terms like Meconium, Vernix, Boppy, Bumbo and Receiving Cloth were certainly new to me. Still not clear on what Thrush or Brickdust are, and not inclined to find out [...]

The little one learns her best trick yet: smiling.

Early this morning, as happens most mornings, Lope woke me up to tell me something about Veda. Usually it’s that she’s hungry, or fussy, or needs to be changed (Veda, not Lope), so this time I figured was in one of those categories too.
This assumption turned out to be greatly helpful to me, since Penny [...]

You get a lot of printed materials in the birthing classes for first-time parents, all of it filled with helpful and instructive — and often extremely opinionated — information.
We left each week’s class clutching a new folder of photocopied data on why we’d be dooming our daughter to a life of squalor and dereliction if [...]