Yesterday I replied on a comment on this blog and I suddenly realized that I hadn’t even mentioned on this blog the fact that I became a father again. So here it is: on May 15 my wife gave birth to a healthy daughter. Her name is Esmee. 
I had announced her birth on Twitter, I even mentioned briefly that we were on the way to the hospital because my wife was going into labor. To which @soniasimone quickly replied that I had to get off of twitter 
In fact I didn’t see that tweet until after Esmee was born.
Esmee is a little over a month old now, and she’s been giving us a hard time. She cries a lot! And although the start was quite different than with our son, her crying behavior grew into something similar as what we experienced with him. So we’re already working to find out about possible food allergies or intolerances. It’s heartbreaking to see a little baby experiencing so much intestinal discomfort.
But due to this, both my wife and I spend a lot of time and energy comforting her, trying to get her to sleep, struggling to get some sleep ourselves and making sure that our 2 year old son gets enough loving attention too! It took up so much time, that we’re having a hard time doing anything else really. In my spare moments, I try to find a job, connect with people on LinkedIn, write for the blogs or answer my email. Oh…and learn some PHP and MySQL on the side. And I have been thinking a lot lately (what else is there to do when you have to walk around carrying a little one?).
One of the things I hadn’t even mentioned before on this blog, is that I have started writing on a Dutch blog as well. It’s called De InspiratieKamer (The InspirationRoom) and it’s a multi-author blog (there’s 2 of us for now ). The blog is focused on developing creative and presentation skills for people in educational and entrepreneurial organizations. The web presence of De InspiratieKamer at this point is only a blog, but we’re working on expanding De InspiratieKamer to a full set of services, both online and offline.
So if you speak or understand Dutch, please hop on over and take a look! I’d love to hear what you think. And if you like what you see, don’t forget to subscribe to De InspiratieKamer by RSS, email or twitter.
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Congratulations…
And that twitter outburst was a gimmick… Din’t ur wife give u a hard time abt it ?
Pass my *wink* to the baby.
Regard.
@Pratik Saptarshi – Thanks! Actually she hasn’t given me a hard time about it…after all a small message is sent in just a couple of seconds and there are always are some spare moments to find. Even when you’re about to give birth to a baby
Oh yeah, even with my ‘quickest’ delivery (7hrs) – there was downtime when you’re just kind of waiting around.
CONGRATULATIONS to you and your wife! Esmee is just beautiful! (And so is her name!)
My kids all needed soy milk the first year. One time I was hospitalized, and someone had given my daughter regular milk – and when they brought her to me to visit – I did not recognize her! She was puffy and red all over – it was awful. And I had another friend who’s baby had to have Nutramigen, the most expensive formula at the time. It is definitely heartbreaking when they are suffering and it’s hard to fix it.
I hope things smooth out for all of you!
@Lisa Marie Mary – Thanks again! I’m quite familiar with Nutramigen and the follow-up formula Flexical. Jesse, our first, had to have those formulas during the first 2 years or so. Esmee also needs special formula, but luckily she seems to react better to food than Jesse, and we’re not using Nutramigen right now. Still breastfeeding and the occasional bottle of formula. It is hard to see those small babies having so much trouble with something as basic as food.
Did you kids grow over the allergies? So far it looks like our son is, thankfully. He’ll probably always needs to maintain a varied diet, but that would be beneficial for most people, right?