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- Chickenpox vaccine ‘will overload children’
Even though doctors have said that the chickenpox vaccine is critical for children, campaigners feel that there just too many vaccines that a child needs to take before they turn 18. In the UK, there are as many as 17 different injections that a child has to take as part of a national immunization program. Well, for me, I’m also worried about the number of jabs that Matthew has to take since he was born. While I agree that immunization is critical to his general well-being, there are just too many. And we even got a letter from the Health Ministry to remind us to send Matthew for his ‘Measles, Mumps and Rubella’ jab. However, we have read about the possible linkage to autism and bowel conditions. And it seems like his body refuses to take the jab as every time we want to bring him for his jab, he will fall sick and we have to wait for him to recover fully.

- 30 Tips for New Dads
Parentwonder.com has provided a lovely list of things a dad can do before, during and after delivery.
(via Inside Fatherhood)

An interesting article, by Dr William Sears, in the Parenting section of CNN Health about how mummy can help daddy and baby bond.

Personally, I feel that I am quite close to Matthew from the time he was born and have bonded quite well. Sure, I was afraid to carry and hold him in his first month because I felt that he was so fragile and I wasn’t that gentle of a guy. But from the second month onwards when we didn’t have the help of a nanny, I had to help my wife take care of him. I changed his diapers (which was very often), carried him to sleep, sang to him, and woke up in the middle of the night. As he grew older, I also help feed him his milk.

Well, now that he’s 17 months old, he likes me to read him stories. Guess that’s what you call a daddy-baby connection that was built up from the time he was born.

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