My beautiful 9 day old daughter will look up at me with what I can only hope is love and adoration while I feed her and she takes a dump right in my arms.
This is fatherdom. You just don't care about the little things, like getting any sleep anymore. OK, that's a lie. I still want sleep. Badly. But priorities have been adjusted so rapidly and so drastically that I hardly remember how life was just a mere 11 days ago.
All the other parents keep telling me that this is the most wonderful, magical, and greatest thing anyone can do with their lives. I am sure with time I will agree, though now my wife and I are so sleep deprived it seems almost inhumane.
One of our friends, Hoosh, stated that "it borders on torture. Waking up every hour to either, feed, change, console, or just responding to a cry that quickly goes away."
Today, my wife let me sleep in... I got to sleep at 5am and slept till 10:30. I woke up and felt great. So weird, since I usually would try to get a solid eight hours. She on the other hand is currently passed out on the couch. Though she says she is better prepared for this, since she has had interrupted sleep for the last three months or so with pregnancy.
She also has started pumping breast milk. We received the lectures in the hospital by the nursing Nazis who informed us that if we did not breastfeed our child would most likely grow into a serial killer by the age of 9. That is, of course, if our child did not spontaneously combust which also comes from not breastfeeding. Now she has brestfed for several days, and Samantha has started drinking more, she has to pump all the time.
My wife summed it up best: "moo."
Parents/family has come regularly dropping off food/support, which is awesome.
Currently on the TV? Classical music lite. Sweet. Great. I was hoping to bone up on Salieri's Ericlito E Democrito/Overture. Our house looks like a Babies R Us threw up all over the place. But, life is sweet, since I have this to keep me going:
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My heartfelt congratulations !! And my sympathy.LOLOL
I remember those days like yesterday. My first was a Samantha as well.
My dad said to me when she was born..."well son, you'll never draw a worry free breath again."
He was right.
But what a fabulous worry to have!! I am really happy for you. You WILL love parenthood!
congratulations!!
@Bricker59 - thanks! It's funny, now I watch TV and see all the stuff I don't want my kid to see. Unfortunately it is every single show that I watch. Time to go get some (sigh) Baby Einstein.
@relaxolgy - Thanks :)
Aww, she is so adorable, and man it goes by fast.
Precious, precious! New parenthood is exhausting (I've given birth 6 times) but I wouldn't have it any other way. You'll get rest eventually.
Has it only been 9 days??? I already feel tired for you! Drew already has plans to keep the baby in a separate room so it wouldn't wake us up. Over my dead body, of course.
P.S. Your legs are hairy.
Congrats on the whole daddy thing! Who needs sleep anyway?
I'm glad you stopped by my new site. It's never that busy with comments (read: YOU WERE THE FIRST ONE TO EVER COMMENT THERE) seeing as I have all my posts upload to my facebook page and I don't write often enough to build up readers outside my personal circle.
I also found your fake Blogger "redirect-to-my-Xanga-page" page. That makes us kind of inverse-mirror images, seeing as my Xanga redirects to my Blogger.
I'll make sure to keep my Xanga so I can stop by every once in a while. I like your posts.