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Originally Posted by Zulu29
I guess all I'd add is take the initiave. I'm proud that I gave my daughter her first bath and changed her first diaper. It's the little things you do initially that will make you tear up later...
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This. Don't hang back and leave your partner to do the child care heavy lifting. Get stuck in right away. We didn't have any choice, as my wife had a c-section and we had twins. Those first 8 hours when it was just me and the newborns, with my wife zonked out after the surgery, threw me into the deep end. But it was the best thing that could have happened. I did the first changes, the first swaddling, etc., and it gave me the sense of being just as capable and responsible for the children as my wife.