“I’m going to be a Dad”

These words are enough to stir more emotions in a man than he would normally express in a whole year. Even though he had hoped for and anticipated the moment, when his partner told him she was pregnant, Pól Ó Conghaile went into shock. Would he be able to give his child the best opportunities in life? What if something went horribly wrong? And, God forbid, what if his child didn’t “get” The Simpsons?

To help sort through the chaos, future father decided to write a weekly letter to his baby-to-be. Over the course of 33 letters, as baby stretched from 8mm to the size of a butternut squash, so did the author’s sense of himself as a Dad.

That’s My Baby! ends before the parenting begins. But the journey is filled with love, life and laughs enough to sustain mums and dads, potential or otherwise, for a long time to come.

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