ALT-2 Great Fathers Day Gifts for first Time Fathers
Being a first-time father brings many mixed emotions with it. Everybody goes on about the new mother's welfare, her tiredness, her sore breasts, her post-natal depression. Well, I must pose a question here. How would you feel if you were loved and adored getting all the companionship, adoration, love and sex from a beautiful woman. Then one day this woman goes into hospital gives birth to a miniature human being who is wrinkled, yells loudly, poohs on himself and appropriates every former position you ever had in your wife's life? Wouldn't your life quickly unravel? Suddenly your sleep is constantly disturbed, and not by your amorous wife wanting some loving in the middle of the night.Could you fetch the baby for me please.You make your way groggily to the cot , place him next to your wife and watch him greedily attach himself to your wife's breasts, the ones you once had more than a nodding acquaintance with. You fall asleep and next thing you are dreaming about being caught in a warm shower of rain. You wake abruptly to find the nipple has slipped out of the baby's mouth but your exhausted wife has fallen asleep and the stimulated breast is shooting a sprinkle of warm milk all over the bed. There's some on your face too! You put the offending breast away in the thick maternity bras your wife has taken to sleeping in and pick up the miniature human being and return him to his bed.
Then you find you are wide awake and your mind is spinning madly. Out of this morass of sleeplessness you have a thought. What do you really want for father's day? And it strikes you that what you want will not cost money. Here's your list, new father.Patience , to be able to accept that everything concerning a baby really happens at the baby's pace.Acceptance , that things will never be the same again, that you will be second in your wife's life for a long while, at least as long as the baby needs the intense care she has to give him.Courage to help your wife face the challenges brought about by this new being in your life.Wisdom to know when to help your wife and when to back off.Humor , to laugh about the fact that you have been undone by a little person.And most of all The Realization, that you are privileged to be part of the miracle of creation, that this time will never come again and that you will live fully in the moment enjoying this yelling, wrinkly, phooey human being whom you love more than your own life.Happy Father's Day DAD.
