{"id":47018,"date":"2020-07-17T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47018"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:10:55","slug":"new-father-brogging-014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47018","title":{"rendered":"New Father Brogging, #014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2.5 weeks vs. 16 weeks<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been a few weeks since I wrote one of these, not that I had any real intention of making this a regularly scheduled thing by any stretch of the imagination.\u00a0 But for my own sake of remembrance and for those who want to kind of live life as a new dad with me, I still feel like writing these posts every now and then, so I can one day look back and see where my head was at during this time of my life, as well as hers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Plus I occasionally fantasize of my daughter one day as an adult, reading my life\u2019s blathering, and if she\u2019s anything like me, getting teary-eyed at dad\u2019s own words back from when she was but a mere infant.\u00a0 But that\u2019s completely contingent on the brog still being online 19-22 years from now, as well as her being remotely interested in what _dad<\/em>_ has to say about things in life and the world.\u00a0 However, in regards to the former, considering I\u2019ve been brogging for quite literally 20 years, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that much of a stretch to think I couldn\u2019t keep it up for another 20.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, to those new dads out there who feel like their worlds are becoming microscopic in the sense that you have absolutely no time to yourself, I can officially vouch for the notion that things to get easier in time.\u00a0 Believe me, I\u2019d gone through my period of feeling like my world was the size of a lima bean and I\u2019d wonder just how long it would be before I could have 30 minutes to myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

But over the last few weeks, mythical wife and I have been attempting to do some sleep training with our little infant child, and trying our best to establish a general routine of feeding times and naps, to maximize her growth as well as buy us some bits of time throughout the daytime where she\u2019s sleeping and we can do our own things for 30-50 minutes at a time.\u00a0 And honestly, so far, it\u2019s going fairly satisfactory, but knowing my mentality, we may have just jinxed it by acknowledging it, and next thing I know, she\u2019ll be going through some other sleep regression stage, and then I\u2019ll be back to being frustrated and fried all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Regardless, we\u2019ve been working on a general six-feed + four nap schedule, with her going down for the night by 8 pm, and what it\u2019s been able to do for us, is that not only does it buy us periodic breaks throughout the day time, mythical wife and I are getting nearly 3-4 hours a night where we can actually unwind from parenting and relax for a little bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Granted, most of this time is her working on another degree, and as for myself, as mentioned, I\u2019ve been painstakingly and only something I would do, restoring my website\u2019s old content onto the rebirth of totfc.net, because my content means the world to me, and I can\u2019t have my brog if I can\u2019t have the six prior years\u2019 worth of posts along with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s what I want to do, and I\u2019m taking great enjoyment out of going through memory lane, looking at the old shit I\u2019ve written in the past, and anticipating the time when I get caught up to where my site was last live, to where I can start retroactively posting nearly five more years of unposted content, and reading through what bullshit I\u2019d written in that window of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, the point of these posts isn\u2019t about my own affairs or the things my wife is doing, they\u2019re supposed to be about my precious little daughter, and what\u2019s going on in her world, and the world of fatherhood for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

At four, nearly five months old, she\u2019s right at double her birth weight, and the last time I measured her, she\u2019s nearing ten inches longer.\u00a0 Mythical wife and I have some staggering to us comparison photos of her in the Snoo<\/a> bassinet (above) days after bringing her home compared to four months later, and we\u2019re now wondering if she\u2019ll even make it to the supposed six-month window in which kids graduate out of the Snoo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, she\u2019s long past grown out of newborn diapers and clothing, and we\u2019re actually getting to the point where the size 1\u2019s are becoming suspect at efficiency, and she\u2019s beginning to show some strain to the 0-3 and 3 month clothing we thought she\u2019d have a little more life with, considering she was a premature baby.<\/span><\/p>\n

And with each outfit we have to \u201cretire,\u201d my heart swells a little bit and I feel melancholy in one hand because my little girl is growing up so freaking rapidly and she still hasn\u2019t been able to meet anyone in my family because fucking coronavirus, but mythical wife reminds me of the wealth of new and fresh adorable outfits that she\u2019s on the cusp of graduating towards, and it\u2019s excitement in the other hand.\u00a0 But still, it\u2019s a little sad knowing she basically wears some of the cutest stuff in the world only a handful of times, and next thing we know all that\u2019s left of them are the iPhone photos and the memories.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It also appears that teething is coming into play, as we\u2019ve experienced a few instances where our child has been mysteriously fussy, and we know it\u2019s not fatigue because she\u2019s still well in her awake window and we know it\u2019s not food, because she basically eats as soon as she wakes up from a nap, and it can\u2019t always be a growth spurt every single day.\u00a0 But introducing teething toys and seeing her find seconds of reprieve, from jamming icy cold objects into her mouth leads us to believe that it appears we\u2019re entering the window of teething, and my mind is blown yet again at the thought that my little baby is getting ready to start sprouting teeth and becoming closer to being introduced into solid foods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still though, it\u2019s always the worst feeling in the world when your kid in pain, and there\u2019s no real way to make it go away.\u00a0 Teething aides work so well only for moments, or we\u2019ve yet to find the magic jesus teething ring or something, and the sounds of her cries and discomfort still leave me feeling helpless and like an incompetent father.<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, to end on a positive note of being a new dad, my daughter has begun laughing, which is basically the greatest music to my ears on the planet.\u00a0 And because she\u2019s my daughter, she seems to derive a tremendous amount of humor out of poop jokes and for whatever reason, Hulk Hogan.<\/span><\/p>\n

While preparing her for a bath, we swaddled her in a yellow blanket, which she promptly ripped out, where I remarked she was just like Hulk Hogan, busting out of a yellow shirt, which was immediately met with raucous laughter from our daughter, bringing both surprise and joy to our faces, at her reaching this milestone human capability in her development.<\/span><\/p>\n

And to prove it was no fluke, I made it happen again several other times, to which simply talking about Hulk Hogan elicits a lot of laughs out of her.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why Hulk Hogan makes her laugh so much, but then again, dad too finds a lot of humor in just the sheer existence of the Hulkster, so this specific apple most certainly has not fallen far from the tree.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a few weeks since I wrote one of these, not that I had any real intention of making this a regularly scheduled thing by any stretch of the imagination.\u00a0 But for my own sake of remembrance and for those who want to kind of live life as a new dad with me, I … Continue reading New Father Brogging, #014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,179,192],"class_list":["post-47018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dad","tag-hulkamania","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47021,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018\/revisions\/47021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}