Most newly dads feel completely overwhelmed the little screaming creature dwelling in a cot Cots - where your baby sleeps?   in the marital bedroom. Why did not anyone warned that now you can not sleep for more than fifteen minutes at a time? Be sure with time will be easier, but first you have to go through the first six weeks. This will require patience, perseverance, sense of humor and a few sleepless nights, but you, your spouse and the monster that appears from her womb, be sure to survive this time.

Learn the skill of a short sleep

People who say they sleep like babies usually do not realize that this expression really means. There is a chance that your newborn baby is never in the night will not let you sleep, so it is important to learn how to fall asleep at every opportunity and at any time. You may be able to sleep during the last quarter of a football game that you watch on TV, or take time off from a hobby, until your child is a little older and starts to require a little less attention. (And, perhaps, that this would have to wait thirty years.) In the first days after birth the dream is of great value, so some sleep at any time and in any place where it is possible.

Practice selfishness

In the first weeks after giving birth you probably will besiege all your family and friends, and if you want to boast addition to the family, first of all, take care of yourself and the baby's welfare. If necessary, be a little selfish and refuse to receive visitors when very tired. If relatives or friends still looked to visit you, feel free to load their affairs. Every time they come to you, ask them to bring a freshly prepared lunch or invite the parents of the second half to come in and help you with chores around the house. And even before you practically did not communicate with them, you will be able to look at them in a different light when they are on their knees to scrub your bathtub.

Wean from cleanliness

While all repeat the miracle of birth, it can be called a miracle that creature with a stomach the size of a large pea defecates almost like an adult. Whatever the angel did not seem your baby, the contents of his diapers have to clean long enough. And of course, children's bowel movements - this is only part of the problem. You should prepare for the fact that you will describe ten times a day. And when you humble yourself to this inevitability, you will be much happier father.

Since babies are often not only write but also constantly vomit, you should stock up on plenty of cleaning products. You can use soap and water, but with their help you will not get rid of the odor, so it is best to always have a special cleaners. All pharmacies offer a wide range of such products, effective and non-toxic cleaning the home, which will live your newborn baby.

Filter information

As a newly father you probably fall a steady stream of advice and recommendations from relatives and friends. But, despite the fact that they genuinely want to help you, should treat their advice is critical. In the end, what helped your grandmother during the Second World War, can be useless for you. You know your child better than anyone else, so trust your parental instincts.

Get ready to become an errand boy

The child spends most of his time with his mother, so you have to take all the hard work. Get ready for what will have to forget about his male pride and every day to go shopping for diapers, pacifiers and children. And although you may not burn with the desire to leave the house, a short walk daily can radically change your mood and health. Fresh air and a small exercise stimulates the production of endorphins in the body, and they make us alert and focused.

Be self indulgent

Do not scold yourself that something is not as you expected. You do not have to all be able to know and the first weeks after birth. In fact, many of your relatives and friends still can not get over it, learn that you are generally able to conceive a child. The main thing - it's calm approach to the solution of all the difficulties and try to be a good parent at every stage of growing your child.

As a newborn baby will try your patience, especially important to maintain a sense of humor. Laugh at the situation, you will find the strength to move on, and when your baby will welcome its first birthday, you will probably agree with the words of the American psychologist Charles Osgood: "Children delivered more trouble than you think, but happiness give more than you can imagine imagine". Remember these words, when your baby srygnet on the third clean set of clothes in five minutes.

Our children

Although newborn babies make our days are shorter, the nights longer, thinner wallet and sex life altogether non-existent, they also make our families happier and more meaningful life. Enjoy life!

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