Instinct? Love? Both?
My profession or area of expertise is not fatherhood. But, in just 48 short hours (wow, Asher’s 2 days old!) I’ve done some things that amaze me. Nothing profound or revolutionary in the way of parenting but simply amazing none-the-less.
Over the past two days, I’ve discovered how Asher likes his pacifier given to him; the best place, so far, on his back to pat for a very quick and painless burping; to do a 2-minute successful diaper change; to thoroughly cover my shoulder with a burp cloth with one hand while adequately supporting him and his head in the other arm. There are quite a few others but I won’t go on.
Pro? No. Student? Yes, because I’ve already had a few what do I do? what do I do? what do I do? moments while Dana’s looking at me like, “Do something!”
All worth it. Besides, who needs more than 3 hours sleep in a 24-hour period anyway?!
March 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
It sounds like you are an excellent student. When Julia was born, I had only held one baby, one time, briefly in my entire previous life. (And I held that baby at arms lengths while saying “No, take him, no!”. Keep us the good work. Knowing that you don’t know is an important piece of the puzzle.
Julia was a screamer, non-sleeper from day one. I finally decided that I was being hardened to sleep deprivation so that when I was tortured by the Anti-Christ I would be able to resist recanting my faith. Yes it was that bad.
May God bless you all.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
i can’t wait to see more photos as the days go on.
sure love your little family…
-a