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Guest Blog from Michael Henry

I recently ran a dad competition to give the winner a chance to guest blog on my page. The guest blog today is coming from R.Y.O.D a.k.a Michael Henry. He is going to give his very interesting insight into parenthood which I'm sure you will all find inspiring . Hope you enjoy his journey that he is sharing.

Hi my name is Michael I’m 30 years old and I’m engaged to be married to my fiancé Rebekah and I’m also the father of our incredible beautiful son Mikah. 

My views on being a father are simple - I believe it is so easy to be the forgotten person when you bring a new life into the world. We live in a society whereby fathers are seen as the ones that go to work and bring in the money for our family however I like to take a different approach, I believe that being there for my son through every step of his life is so important I made it very clear at the beginning that I wanted to be a part of every thing that he does and instead of his mother doing one part and me doing another I decided why can’t we share responsibilities and both put 100% effort in all areas which has helped massively and has also allowed us to build a stronger Family bond and unit. 
I was in shock (in a good way) the love I felt as soon as I knew was incredible, my fiancé is my queen and wow did she get treated like one. Everything was precious it was almost a surreal feeling, the one thing I told myself and my fiancé as well was that I’m going to be the best dad ever and I’m not going to miss anything. I wanted to know everything about everything pregnancy related and baby related. I read a book which I call my bible called ‘The expectant Dad handbook’ which taught me sooooo much it was incredible. I certainly did not want to miss anything and wanted to make sure I was completely clued up. 

For me the pregnancy was an incredible time all of the trimesters had there own unique spell to them. We went to hypnobirthing classes together so many antinatel classes and again the book I was reading allowed me to stay one step ahead of everything. 

The birth was a rollercoaster to say the least my fiancé went through every stage you possible could until the final decision was to have a C Section which to this day I’m still so proud of Rebekah for how brave and incredible she was during the birth and then he came 8:10am December 8th 2017 weighing 7ib 10 our son was born. We were blessed with the most amazing gift ever and I can say that watching him grow during these first 8 months has been the best experience of my life, I still sometimes sit and wonder how we ever lived before without him in our lives. 

What I will finish with is this -  my life has changed so much and this feeling of being a father and patenthood will never leave me always make me want to do better and strive for my son and my future wife. 

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