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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
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.
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Umm. Yeah. We want the kid. We understand it is a ****load of work and way more responsibility than we've ever had combined. But bringing a life into this world certainly offsets the bad stuff in most cases.
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Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop
All you need is .45 and a shovel
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Backhoe.
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Originally Posted by Pestilence
I have a 6 year old daughter and twin 3 year old daughters.
**** my life.
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You are a far, far better man than I.
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Originally Posted by ndws
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.
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Originally Posted by Red Beans
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...
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We have a friend that went that direction. It is certainly something to consider. Problem is the kid is going to be in daycare during the school year, and I doubt the provider we have lined up would be up for that, but we'll see.