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		<title>Christmas 2010: Truman&#8217;s Traumatic Travel Diary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Hey y&#8217;all, it&#8217;s Truman. I had the day off from school Thursday, so I was going through my Dad&#8217;s bookmarks and stumbled onto this blog. I can&#8217;t believe Dad is exploiting me for a few cheap laughs. Actually, yeah, I can totally believe that. Never mind. Anyway, I thought this would be the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=176&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The times they are a-changin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleaning out the ol&#8217; inbox this morning and ran across a BabyCenter newsletter about the things that change when you have a baby. Pretty good list, but it&#8217;s sort of the Disney version, if you will, so I decided to add some levity &#8212; and a dose of reality. Enjoy. Or recoil in horror. Whatevs. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=173&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Long time, no blog&#8217; or &#8216;Four months of figuring out fatherhood&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So…long time, no blog. As you might imagine, I&#8217;ve been kind of busy for the past four months or so with this whole being a parent thing. And that&#8217;s exactly what brought me back to this little corner of the interwebs. I wanted to tell y&#8217;all that we&#8217;re actually doing it &#8212; we&#8217;re parents. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=166&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the call of (diaper) duty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t count the number of times I&#8217;ve thought about sitting down to write this post, only to be pulled away by one thing or another, usually the persistent call of diaper duty. I&#8217;m not gonna lie, I had some major anxiety about the whole diaper thing, never having changed one, unless you count the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=163&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for the right words &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Truman arrived a little more than two weeks ago, I&#8217;ve been contemplating my next blog post, but it has been extremely difficult to find the time to write it and even more challenging to find the words to do it justice. A friend once told me the greatest writer in the world could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=160&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inching (but not yet centimeter-ing) toward go-time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since the make-sure-he-is-still-there ultrasound in what seems like a previous lifetime, my stomach was churning on the drive to the doctor&#8217;s office this morning. Even though our last visit just nine days ago yielded little or no progress toward Baby O&#8217;Clock, there was this strange feeling in my gut as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=156&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A non-update update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A non-update update from the 38-week doctor&#8217;s appointment Wednesday: Effacement? Nope. Dilation? Nada. Numbers that don&#8217;t really mean anything to me? He&#8217;s minus-2, which I excitedly assumed to mean he&#8217;s going to be a very good golfer, but it apparently has something to do with how far his head has dropped in the pelvis, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=154&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re ready &#8230; He&#8217;s going the distance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nursery is complete. No, seriously, we have photo evidence. The hospital bags are mostly packed. All the essential items, as far as we know, have been purchased, with the notable exception that we still don&#8217;t have one of these, greatly reducing the odds he will grow up to be a cage fighter. We are, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=151&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We now resume this hostile takeover already in progress &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many warnings I have received from other parents about what to expect when the baby arrives, one is really starting to hit home. You cannot believe how much &#8220;stuff&#8221; a baby requires, they told me. No kidding. He isn&#8217;t even here yet &#8212; though he should be within the next four weeks &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=145&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned At Baby School, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, thanks to the warnings of our friend Allison, I was denied the awkwardness of attending breastfeeding class &#8212; and subsequently felt like a jerk when only one other husband was absent, and he&#8217;s deployed by the military, but I digress &#8212; so the What I Learned At Baby School series has been reduced by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sympathyfatigue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11334333&amp;post=139&amp;subd=sympathyfatigue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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