Tag: baby

• After That Everything Was Different

  I was handed a small child in a bundle. I briefly held you. Then I returned you to the midwives. They filled a small bath with water, tested it with wrist or elbow I don’t recall exactly. They then started to wash you. You cried just a little and then you relaxed. They laved you gently, picked you […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 7, 2015

  Personal

  baby, Child, fatherhood, life, parenthood

• The Child that changed Everything

  I was handed a small child in a bundle. I briefly held you. Then I returned you to the midwives. They filled a small bath with water, tested it with wrist or elbow I don’t recall exactly. They then started to wash you. You cried just a little and then you relaxed. They laved you gently, picked you […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 7, 2015

  Personal

  baby, Child, fatherhood, life, parenthood