bomberpunk's Blog

Congrats. She looks wonderful.

Awwww…

 

You live in Southern California perchance? Because being late to pretty-much-everything is the norm here.

Congrats!

 

An epidural is a pain-killer injected into the spinal cord. It's a fairly common pain management technique for childbirth.

 

My 3 pieces of advice for a new father:

1. If possible, mommy sleeps when baby sleeps and mommy only worries about baby. You don't have the equipment for 3 AM breast feedings, but you can do the housework :-) (and maybe change a diaper or two).

2. If you haven't already, don't spend any more than necessary on baby. They will grow out of anything you buy faster than you can imagine and they don't care what brand of sleeper they are wearing or how ornate the crib is.

3. Look into cotton diapers. I used a flat-rate diaper service for the first year-ish. No extra charges for each soiled diaper. They'd pick up the dirties every week and leave clean ones. Because cotton isn't as absorbent as Pampers, you change more often (thus the flat rate) and avoid diaper rash. You'll still want Pampers for when Mommy & baby go to the mall (plus a few in the diaper bag).