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This Week on the (Dr.) OC: Nothing’s going to stop me now
Things didn’t get any immediately easier for Dr. O’C after Baby Z was born. On this weeks episode, bringing home baby… So, I am a parent – a mum. I spend the first couple days at home wondering when I...
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Sick Day
We’ve been slowly introducing Z to day care over the last couple of months in anticipation of Dr. O’C returning to work. It’s been a pretty traumatic experience for both of them from what I hear, an...
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This Week On The (Dr.) O’C: The “L” Word
You’ve got to love happy endings. In what could be Dr. O’C’s final post here on A Free Man, we get just that… At some point my attitude to motherhood started to improve. I don’t know when that...
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Will winter pull us through?
Father’s little helper and I are grateful that the weekend’s upon us. It means a brief reprieve from ten plus hour days. Here’s hoping that this weekend’s also free from flat pack furniture. Damn...
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I’m goin’ down to St. James Infirmary
As a first-time parent there is a whole series of “firsts” – first time the babe rolls over, his first bottle, first time he crawls, first haircut, first steps, first words, an on and on. And then...
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Laughing
“Lighted in a room, lanky room Lighted, lighted, laughing in tune Lighted, lighted, laughing…” What better way to start of a Friday than this. Nothing warms my heart more than hearing and seeing Z...
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Walkin’
There are still no sign of teeth, but just shy of a year old the boy’s taking to his feet. The days of lackadaisical parenting are near an end.
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I’m a doctor and it’s true, I’m a clean-cut kid and I been to college, too
“I said, ‘I like Fidel Castro, I think you heard me right,’ And ducked as he swung At me with all his might.” Z, at just shy of a year old, got in his first fight at day care yesterday. Unfortunately,...
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Father’s day at long last and equal time for nourishing mothers
Regular readers of A Free Man may know that one of my life long quests, much like Superman, is fighting for justice and pointing out inequity when it crosses my path. For example, the fact that Dr. O’C...
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Just so the sun don’t hurt you when you cry
Happy Birthday, Baby Z! No, Boy Z. Happy Birthday, my pea. My chicken. My monkey. Happy Birthday, Z-Man. My Super Z. Happy Birthday, Zachary P. Quack. It’s been a year, a year beyond my wildest dreams....
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