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Article: Health Zone: Parenthood - He'll only have a nap if I dance the salsa...; Mirror journalists Jon Moorhead and Jan Jacques are now three weeks into life with baby Alfie.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2000
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Jan's Diary
REMEMBER that feeling when you ventured out alone in the car the first time after passing your driving test?
Multiply it by a thousand and that's what it's like to be in charge of a new baby. No Jon. No relatives. No one to tell: "You hold the mirror to his face to check he's still breathing while I get my eyes level with his chest. Yes, it's going up and down, he must be asleep."
Does every woman feel she'll never measure up, or is it just me? Alfie is now three weeks old and while pretty tolerant of his ham-fisted mother, he still ...