Every guy will tell you how great it is, because he wants to feel like he's Father of the Year. But in private, most guys that you're close friends to will be a little more frank about it. I don't let my friends smoke & mirrors me on the topic, so they speak frank around me.


The guy who said he's in month 2 and "wouldn't trade it for the world" is more full of shit than the diaper he's changing.

Nice to know that you speak for every guy out there. Dipshit.

What if his wife chooses to breast feed? That got me out of those 3am feedings. :)

All you need is .45 and a shovel

:eek:

I grew up on a farrow to finish hog farm. Our neighbor ran a dairy, and I would help out once in a while there. My best friend grew up on a farm, and once again I helped out there. Later in life, me and my old man raised a number of horses. I've spent a good number of years of my life around livestock. In any case, baby shit has a way of burrowing deep into your nasal cavity, unlike most anything else.

You see the black sticky stuff at the hospital and its gross, but its expected, and you have that new-baby euphoria and nothing it does is bad/gross/horrible. that marconium goes away, and even then its not too bad. You've got this. And then the bacteria in the gut changes somehow. And one day, your little darling will shit its pants and all you can say is "Oh dear Lord". You'll want to blame your wife for eating a rotten corpse ass-end first, but she didn't. Good news is, your nose becomes calloused and you eventually aren't bothered by it. That's what they tell me anyway.

Wow, just wow. You only mention the not so pleasant things. And even some of those really aren't as bad as you make it sound. There are way more good things that outweigh the difficult parts of parenthood. If you truly feel that way about your kids then I doubt you will be having that beer and life discussion with your son in 20 years. He will probably go as far away from you as possible.

The wife and I were totally against cloth diapers. They'd leak, stink, and generally be a pain in the ass. However after two months of paying out the ass for diapers, we did our research and took the plunge. A $200 investment netted us 30 diapers and inserts. We do diaper laundry every third day or so and saw a slight increase in water consumption. You can seriously tell a difference between a kid's ass that's been clothed in chemically laced material and the cloth diapers. Don't get me wrong, we use disposables in some situations, but 90% of the time we go cloth. It was well worth the investment...

Heh...touché wifeykins, get yer ass up!

I'm full of shit on a lot of things, but that's not one of them. I'm actually pretty candid about the things I don't like, but again, I wouldn't trade this. I'm actually kind of sad for you, and that doesn't happen often.

My kids know they have an honest father, not a fluffer like you.

I enjoy my kids much better now that they're older. But I point out to expecting fathers the reality of the situation so they don't feel guilty about the feelings they are going to experience. It's really hard for men and women to become 1st time parents. Honesty is a good thing - you should try it sometime.

Thanks for being that spokesman.

Congrats!

w00t!! PBJ

An old creole sergeant I knew in the Army said when his daughters turned 9 he bought them each a Rottweiler puppy so that when they were dating age those dogs were good and old and cranky. Said he never even had to do the greeting the kid at the while door polishing a gun trick. They had to make it past the dogs first.