Fatherhood Is All About Embracing The New

A Baby Does Change Everything 

Here is the fact that every experienced parent knows and new parents find out soon enough. Not all of it is good. There are some major changes that need to be made in your life as it starts to revolve around your baby.

Going out to dinner is just not about deciding what kind of food you want to eat but to make sure that the place is not too noisy in case we take her along, not too far for home in case we need to rush back and of course any excursion needs to be done with a completely packed baby bag with for any and all situations that might arise!

The relationship between me and my wife has also changed. We have less time for each other than we used to since all our time seems to be around our baby. It is not something that either of resents but it is the little things that we used to do with each other that are put on the backburner whenever there is any conflict of time.

Both I and my wife love to travel and we decided that having a baby would not change this one thing. In fact, we decided to take a trip across the world to the US when our baby was 4 months old. It was a fun trip no doubt, however, traveling with a baby is very different than traveling alone!

I think we both underestimated the toll travel takes and so we had to cut back our in-country traveling by a lot. It is just another small change and we will plan better next time around.

Every Day Is A New Experience

The one thing that I have learned over the last six months as a father is that I will never be fully in control of every situation anymore. There is no way to predict how a baby is going to behave with certainty and she just might decide to go along with my plans or not. There is nothing I can do about it!

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Every single day I feel I learned something new about her behavior and feel better equipped be a father although not everything I thought I learned turns out to be very useful!

Patience with your baby, with yourself, your partner and those around you is key to getting through the times when everything seems to be getting out of control. Take a step back, relax and look into your baby’s eyes. Everything will be okay.