Thanks for that. I'm getting so many different opinions, from "You'll be the first man your daughter loves, so set an excellent example" to "Your daughter will hate your guts as soon as you indicate limits", to (my wife's aunt) "talk to them calmly as you would adults and see" (and her three kids are super, super well behaved it is uncanny).

Mine is in the "oral phase" - I walked with her in my arms outside earlier and she 'tongued' my hoodie, was a massive wet splotch after lol. I just love cuddling her. She has started sleeping a lot more - last night it was 4-4-2 (hours, the hyphens denote a <5 minute wake, short feed and back to sleep), which helps. My wife of course carries most of the responsibility here since we're doing 100% breast feeding (direct). I can't wait for the little one to sleep the night through - for my wife's sake. She deserves it!

Oh, the losing hair thing with the women is uncanny - I hadn't realized how long it had been since I woke up with her hair in my mouth lmao.A neighbor was walking with her son - I'd say he was around 5? And he was running ahead of her down the block going "HELLO!!" to every person he saw - was hilarious, lol.

She is 2 and has an almost 100% success rate. There is virtually nobody who will not wave back and say hello to a 2 year old.

I know what started it: video conferencing. I used to sit her on my lap during meetings and everybody would wave and say hello to her.

I hadn't had much kid experience before. I "read" to a friend's 2 year old daughter last Christmas - she'd point at a book and I'd read, then she'd point at another one lol. But now with mine I get randoms just yelling out (in NYC...) "hey congrats man!!!!" lol. Or people in cars waving etc.

Just seems like ever since I became a parent I was welcomed into this 'parent club'.

Your brain rewires itself so that you notice kids. You will find that you yourself notice other people's kids a lot more when you are out, and the same applies to them. They wouldn't notice you if you were on your own, but their parental instincts go all spidey sense when there is another kid without 100 yards.

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I agree with Legzz. My oldest daughter is turning 15 shortly. She a little sassy sometimes, but is mostly respectful and every night when I say "I love you" she responds with "I love you too daddy". The relationship really just depends on the parent and the kid. Teenage years have been really good for us overall. They do have to start dealing with more stress - friends, school, whatever, but they are more capable, too.

My baby girl (who broke her leg a week and a half ago) turned 5 today. Just finished cake and ice cream.

@duracellbunny - I'd definitely wave back.

I was already 'spidey-sense' alert walking around NYC, even more with my wifey (I always 'scan', she's somewhat oblivious). Now with my baby it's in hyperdrive. And I see it with other folks' kids, was at an outdoor market and a woman was letting her kid crawl around on the floor among the people and I couldn't help but want to pick up the kid off the floor. I didn't, and she did after, but when people were walking over/around the kid I was kind of going 'wtf'.

How did she break her leg? Mine is in rapture watching me eat, and smiles when I go 'mmm!' haha.

I hear you on the relationship between the parents and the kid, that's what I was getting at in my previous post. But then again, 'a kid is born with its own character' and all that, so we'll see.

She was playing with her 7-year-old brother. She was kicking a foam football in the basement (which they aren't supposed to do) and kicked the floor instead, we think. My wife and I were gone, my teenage kids were home in charge. It's our second broken bone, the 7-year-old broke his collar bone last year sledding. Kids are pretty durable and heal up pretty good when they do break. It's a wonder we haven't had more trips to the emergency room over the years though.

Sorry to hear that, but glad they have healed alright. I only ever fractured a bone once, many years after childhood lol.

Even the names took us some time to agree upon, and luckily when she was born the name still fit haha.

Coming up on 4 months. Heading to Central Park for a family picnic.

It still feels odd how people just come up beside me if I push the stroller and are so "familiar", but it is that parental thing I referred to earlier.

Feels like she's changing every few days - her face too. With me sometimes I get home from work and she sees me and sort of hides behind her hands and that huge smile spreads across her face haha.

Wonder if/when that "cute" feeling will fade srs.

It's so fun watching her play - she'll touch my coffee cup sometimes and smile at the temperature change. Same with bits of snow.

She tastes bread now also, still growing like a champ.

And we're still discussing a second oneThe feels, mane.

Wait until she discovers animals. Mine won't eat her breakfast until her puppy has hadherbreakfast and won't go to bed without saying goodnight to her.

Re snow: she didn't really like it the first time she experienced it.

It is certainly possible. We don't believe in "sleep training", though some parents do.

When she wakes up during the night my wife quickly starts feeding her and after a few minutes she is asleep again. So of course waking up repeatedly at night isn't great, but seeing your happy healthy baby smile at you makes it all worthwhile.

Solid food is slowly starting. Once that kicks in more she will sleep longer. We are using the "baby led weaning" principle here.

Similar to what we did, our little dude eats everything possible now lol

That's wild. We took her to this organic farm during Christmas vacation where they had animals there. She stares at them and will reach her hand out to touch them if I hold her close. But I also hope we'll make that move, and get a puppy to grow up with her. I still remember my first dog when I was just a young kid. I used to ride our German Shepherd around (she'd carry me laying on her).Das it mane. Can't wait to cook for her, though I bet the first time I make her my lasagna she'll mash a lot of it around on her face and such, lol.

The first time she tasted bread she kept doing it until it turned to mush. Smudged it everywhere. Was so cute

TFW she says 'ba ba' the first time, looking up at you

She can crawl easily, but seems to get bored and sits there. If I offer her my hands she can lift herself up holding them, and walks if I slowly pull my hands forward.

The feels, brehs.

Seeing "recognition" is so incredible.

We have taken her to this farm, where she kept stating at the animals moving hah. She can play with other babies - passing toys around, she crawls and can pull herself up easily next to something.

To the "soon to be" parents commenting on my CP or DMs - good luck! Get some extra sleep now, haha.

congrats man

Thanks breh. Hoping other brehs here know those feels soon, especially the ones who have contacted me privately saying their wives are expecting