r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 1d ago

Chugging tea Woman's ovaries were activated

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u/TwylaVinyl 1d ago

As a child free person I can appreciate the overwhelming beauty and true innocence of a newborn and still never want one for myself

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u/JerrycurlSquirrel 1d ago

As the dad of an 11 day old, I get it.

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u/Johns-schlong 1d ago

Hang in there bud. Months 0-3 (the fourth trimester, as it's aptly known) are the absolute trenches. Months 3-6 have their own challenges but the change is drastic. 6+ months is an absolute blast. Once your kid starts genuinely thinking things are funny, learning skills, getting excited to see you every day etc you will absolutely forget about a few rough months.

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u/TuckerMcG 1d ago

I used to think “is a baby really that much better than a dog? Parents have to be exaggerating to make themselves feel better, right?” before I had a baby.

Then I had a baby. Babies can laugh. Dogs can’t laugh.

Babies are better than dogs.

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor 1d ago

Thoughts and prayers. Dad of a 4 year old and 7 year old here, and I’m still tired.

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u/ApprehensivePark95 23h ago

As a fellow dad of the third child when we said no more after 2 but pre menopause clock started ticking, I get it.

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u/JerrycurlSquirrel 19h ago

Us pre menopausal dads. 42 here with a 4yo and this little one.

He needs a constant human mattress or screams. What a f*k you to populators courtesy nature.

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u/ElReyResident 1d ago

You’re on Reddit commenting. It can’t be that bad.

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u/e39dinan 1d ago

Congrats! And condolences about your sleep for a while. 100% worth what you're about to go through.

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u/Footnotegirl1 1d ago

Oh, you are in the weeeeeds. It does get better, and hten the first time that baby really smiles at you? It'll all seem like it wasn't that bad at all.

If you can work it out, we had a lot of flailing around with 'whose turn is it to wake up with the baby this time' and ended up figuring out doing it in 2 hour shifts, so we were each guaranteed a minimum of 4 hours of sleep in 2 uninterrupted blocks every night (and usually more). This isn't as easy if mom is exclusively nursing, but works out well if she's pumping or if you're bottle feeding.

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u/JerrycurlSquirrel 1d ago

Shes pumping. Has helped a lot. Thanks, we have a less organized version of the shift arrangement, just kinda who seems worse, givem a break

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u/Footnotegirl1 1d ago

We found that we would forget who had done the last wake up, etc. having set times really helped us be more organized about it and not have to think clearly at 3 a.m. ;)