Good news! If you’re an adopting parent (as my wife and I will be, hopefully in 2009…), you know the high cost associated with the adoption process. Well, if you adopted this past year, you might actually enjoy your taxes this time around!For parents who completed the adoption process in 2007, you may [...]
You may fear environmental disasters, terrorist strikes, maybe even the Reaper. Me? I fear the dentist.
I have this unique condition where my lower jaw is impossible to completely numb. So all throughout my childhood – any cavity I got felt like someone was jack-hammering my molars with unmitigated malice.
Growing up, I just figured [...]
My wife and I did the whole in-vitro thing. In fact we did it four times. Three full rounds, with one round using our cryogenically frozen kidlets left over.
First round failed, second round failed, third round failed, and the fourth? Yeah, bupkis.
And then, we conceived without any intervention at all, except for [...]
Somewhat ironically, the place with the most microbreweries and, ahem, “gentleman’s clubs” per capita also happens to be the best place to have your baby, according to a recent survey from FitPregnancy Magazine.Portland, Oregon was named tops in the nation for places to have a baby. Following Portland were Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, and [...]
A growing phenomena, largely related to the dearth of adequate and affordable health care in the United States, is what has often been called “medical tourism”. People fly to India, Mexico, Thailand, etc. for all sorts of medical (and often cosmetic) issues including bypass surgeries, knee and hip replacements, dental work, eye surgery, you [...]
I recently overheard a department store employee tempting a mother to purchase one gaming system over another largely because the “extra activity of this system will burn off more energy.” Mom seemed intrigued.
Looking down the aisle, I noticed her son was a couple Oreo’s short of “husky” size. So I give the salesman [...]
Confessions of a Sleep Deprived Daddy
I’ve been doing a fair amount of research on sleep lately. I’ve done it at 2:12 a.m., I’ve done it at 4:47 a.m., or any other myriad of times that my boy is awake squawking. There’s a certain degree of irony involved when you’re doing research on sleep while [...]
Seemingly adding an interesting example to the ongoing nature and nurture debate, U.S. researchers discovered a link between IQ and whether children are in foster care or in orphanages, according to their findings from a study in Romania.
According to the study, toddlers who are removed from orphanages and placed in foster care score dramatically higher [...]
So my little boy, Gus, is an over-achiever. Okay - I just like to say that because he’s 95% in height and 93% in weight. But hey, that’s well above average right? In practicality, he’s a big, happy, vocal, very tactile guy.
But at 9 months, he hasn’t really shown any indication that [...]
Light bulbs, check.
Cordless drill, check.
Oh, and I might as well meet my biological mother whom I haven’t seen in 22 years.
Feel free to read the whole story, it’s a doozy. But here’s the summary - Steve Flaig, 22, was given up for adoption at birth. At 18, he started the investigation into who his biological [...]
