So You're Going To Be A Dad [antikvár]

AUTHOR'S NOTE You know when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on the roller-coaster up down up down Oh, what a ridel Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around nothing. I like the roller-coaster. You get more out of it. Helen Shaw (Grandma), Parenthood It is impossible in a book like this not to speak in generalisations. Every pregnancy is different. No labour experience is the same. Each baby is unique. Doctors' views differ. Hospital policies vary. Averages, are just that — averages. Some of the items I have covered here in a casual aside are the topics of 300-page books. So whatever you do, don't memorise this book as though it were a detailed, Sinai-delivered blueprint customised for your particular situation. You can't use this book for fathering by numbers. It won't work. I have written it merely to give you a little information, raise some issues for you to discuss with your wife, and stimulate thought regarding what it means to be a Dad. In talking about the female person who will form the other half of the parenting team in your family, I have used the word 'wife' instead of 'partner'. Yeah, yeah, I know that not every guy who reads these words will be a 'husband', but I had to choose one of them and I like the sound of 'wife' rather than 'partner'. It sounds more relationy, if you know what I mean. And anyway, it's my book so I can do anything I damn well like. In referring to the baby in the book, I have called it either 'the baby' or 'it'. I know it sounds impersonal and dehumanising, but I just couldn't make up my mind. So there. o