baby and parenting

In case of an emergency, are you prepared?

November 3, 2011

“Is he breathing?” This is a question I never, ever, want to ask about my child but found myself doing so just recently to my husband. “Check if he’s breathing!” Please say he’s breathing. Please. Please. Scotch finally replied that our son was breathing. Thank you Powers-That-Be! I tried to turn my attention back to [...]

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An Indoor Kids’ Picnic & Drinks to Beat the Summer Heat

July 8, 2011

Summer in Dubai usually involves hibernating indoors to take refuge from the desert heat and humidity. Although I’m sure our children wouldn’t mind being outside all hot and sweaty, it’s us adults that don’t want to be running after them dripping in sweat. Unable to gallivant at the beach or at the park, I had some of Wee [...]

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Wee Scotch Turns One Year Old!

February 22, 2011

What? Wasn’t he born in December?! Yes he was. But I’m just now getting around to posting his birthday photos! The above collage shows his three birthday cakes that were specially baked for him. The top-right was from my friend Ruth – it was a textured and moist carrot cake and she used vanilla frosting [...]

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Having a Baby in Dubai – Part 3 of 3

October 12, 2010

So I have not been posting as I have been dreading Part 3 of this series. In my head, I felt like this was going to be a long and drawn out post and after many months of putting it off, I am going to be very lazy and simply post (verbatim) a slightly edited [...]

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Having a Baby in Dubai – Part 2 of 3

June 10, 2010

In case anyone was wondering, I’m not going to go into any of the gory details of the actual birthing. That’s the kind of fun you’ll just have to experience for yourself (or possibly watch your significant other go through). I just wanted to relate my experience of the paperwork that was needed to register [...]

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Having a Baby in Dubai – Part 1 of 3

June 5, 2010

I often get asked about my experience of having a baby in Dubai: What was it like? Is the medical care any good? Does my child have UAE citizenship? I’ll tackle the last question first. No, Wee Scotch does not get automatic UAE citizenship. It’s near impossible to do so if a child is born [...]

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Introducing Wee Scotch

March 31, 2010

Scotch and I welcomed our little one into the world in December 2009. He was 7 lbs 4 oz and 21.26 inches. For you metric people, that would be 3.29 kg and 54 cm. Here he is at 2 days old: Here he is at 6 days old – all curled up and asleep in [...]

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Happy December and Baby Update!

December 10, 2009

Obviously I didn’t do so well in my attempt to post every single day. My goodness, I even skipped an entire month! Ah well. Today is the baby’s “official” due date but he seems to be showing no signs of wanting to come out just yet. I have an induction scheduled for Dec 20th but [...]

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