What To Do While Your Wife Nurses the Baby
You might think that the time while your wife nurses the baby is free time for new dads, where you can sit back, have a cold one, and watch the "game."Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Remember everything you were planning on getting done, but then you had to go to work or watch the baby or go to work or watch the baby or eat or sleep or go to work or watch the baby?
What are those things? Here are a few.*
-Wash the dishes from yesterday
-Fold the clothes from three days ago
-Put air in the car tires, so that warning light that came on two weeks ago will go away.
-Buy milk
-Walk the sad, sad, dog.
-50+ other equally urgent things...
-Exercise! (Just kidding! Ha ha ha ha ha ha)
What you DON'T want to do: Waste time.
Because if she has to do something - feed the kid - why do you get to relax?
And before you say it, no, "sleep" is not relaxing. Sleep is legitimate free time.
In other words, if your partner is feeding or taking care of the baby and thinks your not doing something to contribute, that could spell trouble.
Of course, you can relax ever now and then. But maybe do it when MOM is also relaxing. That way, one person won't feel like they're missing out.
And if you do try to relax while she nurses the baby, you have be be very, very slick.
In other words, when she asks, (hypothetically), "What you are doing on the computer?
Always answer, "Paying bills."
Do NOT say, "just surfing the internet," "watching YouTube videos," or especially, "writing a blog about what not to do while your wife is nursing."
You might think that last one would get at least a chuckle.
But there's really no energy to chuckle.
In other words, I gotta go.
Good luck, and get some sleep.
-ND
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* I'm not creating hypothetical errands - this is actually a list of things I should be doing instead of blogging.
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