I HAD a baby six weeks ago, and I left the hospital days later feeling well-rested, basking in a newborn glow and in the possession of a free manual and guidebook telling me everything I could ever need to know about the feral little creature I now needed to keep alive and teach to be a good person.

I didn’t actually have any of this.

Well, I did have a baby six weeks ago, but photographic evidence of his trip home two days later shows a tiny little creature with two exhausted, shell-shocked and terrified adults, who seem both very in love with the creature and completely flummoxed as to what they’re actually meant to do with him.

It’s lucky I have this evidence really, because the whole thing was a slightly out-of-body experience for me, which passed in a blur.

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Concerned Protestant voices should be heard over Drumcree - The Irish News view

Before you have a baby, everyone tells you that being a parent is the hardest thing you will ever do. And if you are anything like me, you respond by thinking “Well it can’t be that hard. I certainly will not find it hard, at........

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