Guess it's time for me to grow up...

• sherm03

  

  Baby Sherm is due 2/25. So I'm sorry everyone. There will be another Notre Dame and Reds fan in the world early next year.
  
  For those of you that have kids, what was the moment it all sunk in that you were having a kid?
  
  For me, it was about week 12 of my wife's pregnancy. We had seen the heartbeat on the sonogram at Week 6. And that was pretty amazing. But at that point, it's just that little flutter on the screen. But at Week 12, my wife thought she had lost the baby. We went down to the ER, they did an ultrasound and said the heartbeat sounded fine and that she experienced a threatened miscarriage. While they were checking everything on the ultrasound, the baby started moving around and that's when it all hit me.
  
  We go Monday night to one of those 3D sonogram places. They said they can tell the gender at 16 weeks and guarantee it or double your money back. So instead of waiting another month, we'll find out what we are having Monday night.
• Ironman92

  

  The moment she told me she was pregnant changed my view on priorities immediately. I was in college half assing it and working maybe 15 hrs a week. I wasn't worthless but I wasn't too far from it. My 2.9 went to a 3.4 and my 15 hours jumped to 40.
  
  Don't blink man.
• Ironman92

  

  sherm03;1749988 wrote:Baby Sherm is due 2/25. So I'm sorry everyone. There will be another Notre Dame and Reds fan in the world early next year.
  
  For those of you that have kids, what was the moment it all sunk in that you were having a kid?
  
  For me, it was about week 12 of my wife's pregnancy. We had seen the heartbeat on the sonogram at Week 6. And that was pretty amazing. But at that point, it's just that little flutter on the screen. But at Week 12, my wife thought she had lost the baby. We went down to the ER, they did an ultrasound and said the heartbeat sounded fine and that she experienced a threatened miscarriage. While they were checking everything on the ultrasound, the baby started moving around and that's when it all hit me.
  
  We go Monday night to one of those 3D sonogram places. They said they can tell the gender at 16 weeks and guarantee it or double your money back. So instead of waiting another month, we'll find out what we are having Monday night.

  Congrats indeed.
  
  Boy or girl won't matter at all. I'll be rooting for perfect health
• MontyBrunswick

  

  sherm03;1749988 wrote: guarantee it or double your money back.

  well that's weird.
• sherm03

  

  MontyBrunswick;1750005 wrote:well that's weird.

  I laughed about that as well. It's one of those for-profit ultrasound boutiques. But they say their technicians are so well trained that they can guarantee they are correct as early as 16 weeks. But if they happen to be wrong, they'll refund double the cost of the appointment. So I figured why not go and see what they say?
• sherm03

  

  Ironman92;1749999 wrote:Congrats indeed.
  
  Boy or girl won't matter at all. I'll be rooting for perfect health

  Thanks! That's how I'm feeling as well. I think there's a part of every guy that hopes for a boy. But I just want the baby to be healthy. Whether it's a boy or a girl, I'll still teach them how to throw a curve ball.
• like_that

  

  sherm03;1750014 wrote:Thanks! That's how I'm feeling as well. I think there's a part of every guy that hopes for a boy. But I just want the baby to be healthy. Whether it's a boy or a girl, I'll still teach them how to throw a curve ball.

  If it's a girl make sure she still does boys chores (i.e.cutting the grass) and shit. We are all about gender equality these days, right?
• like_that

  

  Ironman92;1749998 wrote:The moment she told me she was pregnant changed my view on priorities immediately. I was in college half assing it and working maybe 15 hrs a week. I wasn't worthless but I wasn't too far from it. My 2.9 went to a 3.4 and my 15 hours jumped to 40.
  
  Don't blink man.

  Didn't know this, but reps. It's a shame a million other fathers aren't like this.
• GoChiefs

  

  sherm03;1749988 wrote:For those of you that have kids, what was the moment it all sunk in that you were having a kid?

  When I decided that I was going to propose to my wife.
• Ironman92

  

  like_that;1750016 wrote:Didn't know this, but reps. It's a shame a million other fathers aren't like this.

  It was seriously automatic...didn't know I would respond that way.
  
  I'm not very damn old to have a kid in grad school lol.
• sherm03

  

  Ironman92;1750029 wrote:It was seriously automatic...didn't know I would respond that way.
  
  I'm not very damn old to have a kid in grad school lol.

  I understand exactly what you mean. When we found out, I immediately realized that just about everything I thought was important in life didn't mean shit. It was an immediate shift in priorities and all of the other bullshit fell away.
• sleeper

  

  sherm03;1749988 wrote:Baby Sherm is due 2/25. So I'm sorry everyone. There will be another Notre Dame and Reds fan in the world early next year.

  Son of a ...
  
  Anyway, congrats man. Hopefully he/she will grow up to be a comedian who is actually funny.
• adog

  The moment when I received the paternity test results back
• friendfromlowry

  My daughter was born 13 months ago. Our families came to the hospital to see her and celebrate. When they all left for the night and it was just my wife and I with our daughter in the hospital room, then it sunk in.
  
  It'll all be very stressful and overwhelming at first, but you'll get the hang of it quickly. My wife and I had zero experience with babies, but you know right away when they're hungry, tired, teething (the worst), etc.
  
  I wouldn't worry about furnishing the room with a crib and what not right away. You'll probably want the baby in a bassinet near you initially.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  The first night you're home and your baby wakes up every hour or so. It'll sink in then lol
• hasbeen

  

  My daughter just turned 7 months. It sunk in when I was putting the crib together, painting her nursery, putting the nursing chair together, etc. Putting all her stuff in her room and it hit me pretty good.
  
  No feeling like seeing your child for the first time, for sure.
• Ironman92

  

  And fuck that Kenny Chesney song lol
• Con_Alma

  ...when I dropped her off at college. Everything else was easy and relatively inexpensive up to that point.
• friendfromlowry

  By the way, try like hell for your wife to breast feed. Clothes and diapers aren't that expensive (IMO) but formula I think is.
• 1_beast

  

  Con_Alma;1750146 wrote:...when I dropped her off at college. Everything else was easy and relatively inexpensive up to that point.

  This. I still have 2 children at home, but dropping my kid off at college his freshman year was rough.
  Oh...and DON'T BLINK!!!
• Ironman92

  

  1_beast;1750610 wrote:This. I still have 2 children at home, but dropping my kid off at college his freshman year was rough.
  Oh...and DON'T BLINK!!!

  Dropping off to college wasn't as hard as expected but rarely getting to see her sucks...it sucks. But I know it's best for her. This was our first year of vacation without her [emoji17]
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Ironman92;1750612 wrote:Dropping off to college wasn't as hard as expected but rarely getting to see her sucks...it sucks. But I know it's best for her. This was our first year of vacation without her [emoji17]

  I'm already fretting this and my son is only 2 and daughter is only 7 months. Everyone always tells me it gets so much more fun as they get older, but I'd keep my son at 2 years old his whole life if I could.
• j_crazy

  

  It hit me when we were looking at the nursery after i had spent 2 days painting it and 1 day putting all the furniture together.