Adventures in new fatherhood

[FirstAidBrewing]

My sympathies mate, my wife and I just had our first. He decided to come a month early and spent a week in the NICU as a result.

He is quite the personality and 'sleep' has turned into a mythical thing that I once had heard of.

My real wonder is when I will get another 6 hour block to me another batch of beer.

 

[andrewmaixner]

I picked up an ANOVA cooking water heater thing to move my mash water heating to (slow) automatic electric and cut my brew day time expenditures. Estimating it will take me down to only 3 hours of actual time spent, since I won't have to monitor strike water heating, for 10 gallon batch, not counting the few minutes of setup a few hours earlier.

I'll see how this setup works on my next batch. (Might go get a piece of styrofoam insulation board and cut it to fit exactly around the unit also)

 

[Roadliner]

Still waiting... Hope she comes soon

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

I'm already the father of two girls, age 4 and 2. The wife and I are expecting the arrival of #3 and #4 with twins (Boy and a girl according to the ultrasound) sometime towards the end of July. Hopefully before then we'll be moved into a bigger house and I can manage to grab a few hours of free time to actually do some brewing.

 

[mattsearle]

Got our first arriving in November, so working on getting the pub shed built asap to allow me some respite. Something tells me it will gradually become nothing more than a toy storage facility/ play room though !

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Still waiting... Hope she comes soon

Is he or she here yet?

 

[GotPushrods]

I am now 33 days into fatherhood. My wife had the perfect pregnancy (never sick once) that makes other women want to murder both of us and had our daughter 1 day before the due date, induced due to slow leaky water. We took her for the 1 mo checkup today. Everything is amazing and I wouldn't trade it for the world!

But it will be funny when I see this thread later in my subscriptions and can't remember typing this. The mind is a strange thing without sleep.

 

[Roadliner]

Is he or she here yet?

Yup! She came on the 4th... Almost the 5th. I got to be home for it, so I'm a pretty happy Daddy. On my way back to the sandbox for a few more months and then home with her for good.

 

[unionrdr]

I'd been transferred to Cincinnati while my wife was still up north at our old house having our daughter. Damned boss at Ford down there wouldn't let me go home, as I'd just been transferred & was on probation. So I know how that feels.

 

[Rivenin]

Man oh man it's fun reading this thread...

I have an almost 20 month old (i'm stopping that crap after 2 years...) and another one due in just over a month. I have absolute love for the new kid and will not regret any part of it... but i'm so worried about taking care of a kid who takes one nap a day and sleeps at night when i'm going to be so exhausted.
At least the wife is a "Stay at home mom" and i'm the only one working.... So at least that makes it easier.

 

[Beernik]

FYI: never throw baby food bowls away. They are the most useful sized dishes ever and virtually indestructible.

 

[Roadliner]

Wife sent me this pic, and I think it's adorable.. so I give you the little one I was waiting so impatient for.. My little Alexa

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Very cute!!

 

[azscoob]

Babies are soooo cute when they are in the people-shaped gooey blob stage, once mobile they loose a bit of the luster, but that returns when they learn to speak and comprehend what you say, then all turns awesome again.

 

[fj605]

I became a first time dad on Thursday to a little girl. When she falls asleep in my arms, I forget about the lost sleep. Hopefully this feeling never fades.

 

[andrewmaixner]

Yes. Baby #2 (10 months old) just went from getting up once or twice a night to eat, to getting up 6+ time a night and not going back to sleep after 6AM. This has been going on for a week straight now. That's not cute, baby

No mistakes made yet in this current phase of sleep deprivation.

 

[Beernik]

I can understand a 10 month old not going back to sleep after 6am. Maybe a nap or two sometime during the day. But waking up every hour through the night is unusual. I think I'd call the pediatrician or talk to him about it at the next checkup.

 

[phug]

Could be a growth spurt. Feeding at every waking? Or teething? Try some infant Motrin, lasts. 8 hours

 

[andrewmaixner]

I can understand a 10 month old not going back to sleep after 6am. Maybe a nap or two sometime during the day. But waking up every hour through the night is unusual. I think I'd call the pediatrician or talk to him about it at the next checkup.

Could be a growth spurt. Feeding at every waking? Or teething? Try some infant Motrin, lasts. 8 hours

Oh, we have talked to the doc, used NSAIDs, benzocain, fermcap oral (gas drops). Eating at every waking.

We got lucky on the first kid generally sleeping very well, and we are probably just making up for it now.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Well... the little buzzard has an ear infection. First one baby in the nannyshare had one, then his best buddy got one, and now he has it. While taking care of him over the past week he's been pretty tough, but still... well... he's 1 year old with an ear infection.

Here's where something nice turns bad. We have been teaching him to share. He's a sweet kid, so he has been handing things over to us or his friends... including his binky. In between crying fits I was holding him and he decided to share. He popped his binky in my mouth.

I now have a cold and a sore throat complete with green throat pus. Only one who has it worse is his mom, who is in bed with the fever shakes.

Maybe kombat was right...

Nah.

 

[phug]

They bring home everything. Just wait until Pinkeye does the rounds of your house.

last time, the 4 year old brought it home, the newborn and my wife contracted it, I was the only one unscathed.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Look out. Hand, foot and mouth disease seems to be going around. That one is supposed to be miserable.

 

[TX_Brewing]

Look out. Hand, foot and mouth disease seems to be going around. That one is supposed to be miserable.

Yup, this sucks, all 3 of mine have had it at 1 point or another.

 

[phug]

Had to postpone my parents meeting my daughter for the first time for a bit. The day they came back from my sister's out west, there was a note that came home from my niece's daycare saying that Hand Foot and Mouth had been confirmed at the daycare. Did not want to risk a newborn catching that.

 

[Rivenin]

Well, here is my 4 day old daughter.... We didn't find out the sex with her or her brother. She has been an absolute delight! First day I got 8 hours of sleep... That was crazy as my boy I think I foot 4 hours in 4 days!
But here is Violet and my son Bjorn the first day she was home.
Its totally cute, he will not stop giving her kisses and hugs and holding her hand during diaper changes, and he is only almost 2. Love this so much...

 

[Rivenin]

Although this picture was taken right after thry first met at the hospital. The expressions of each are priceless...
"What is this? And what is that sound?! It's staying here right?! " - Bjorn
" someone feed me! Why is that young man poking me?! " - Violet

 

[chisena]

My second son is coming August 24th and I have been in the midst of a brewing frenzy. Given that I won't be brewing for a stretch, I've got a sour, stout, IPA, and Oktoberfest fermenting [emoji51]

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[CreamyGoodness]

Sunday evening just after dark, we (perhaps unwisely since it was after bedtime) took him to the local park to see a movie (the parks commission set up a big screen and played a movie, with free popcorn). We sat with our friends on a blanket, and SG was fidgetty but not too bad. Directly in front of us was an African American couple (this is only important later) and their son, who we came to find out was 2 years old. He saw SG, smiled wide and toddled over with his Spiderman pillow. Looking at Mrs. Goodness he said "do you think he wants to play with Spiderman and me?"

Cutest thing Ive ever seen, easily.

From that point on until the end of the movie the two of them were instant good buddies, and both of them wound up crawling into the opposite mom's lap at some point.

This is what I'm learning about kids, and I'm loving it... at that age its not that they dont notice race (they arent idiots), and they might even bring it up as a matter of curiosity... they just couldnt care less about it.

 

[Inkleg]

Kindness is kindness, regardless of color.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

SG woke up literally 6 times Saturday night. He wound up going back and forth between our bed to get him to go back to sleep to his crib, and since my wife's back is hurting it was on me to bring him. I'm not proud of it, but the last time she shook me awake to bring him back to the crib I snapped at her pretty good. Im really surprised Im not in the doghouse, when she tried to argue I hit her with "just go the hell to sleep".