I've learned about:
- Swaddling and my complete inability to master it
- How, for the first three or so months of a person's life, getting up at midnight, 3am and 5am oddly becomes expected. However, despite what anyone says, it's never pleasant. You adjust, you adapt... you gain more and more appreciation for your wife who takes all this in stride.
- How, when in pre-natal classes and the teacher informs you that you will at some point have a urge to shake your baby and you think that seems harsh, you understand with full clarity at 4am
- The first time your baby grips your finger, it's the coolest thing
- You're often tired and can't remember not being tired... and this is with your wife doing yeoman's work during weekdays so you can sleep and be somewhat alert for work
- Babies come with stuff, lots of stuff... you go somewhere, you've got a lot of stuff to bring/carry
- My job is to carry stuff
- Thinking of yourself as a parent takes a while... it's fun to say in the abstract but it takes a really long time to really think of yourself as one.
This was going to be a lot longer post but it took me roughly 2 months. I'm working on doing this better... blogs and parenting!
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