So I have been a father now for a little more than two days. 1 I am really tired, and 2, I don't know how it is done without a partner. I mean unless I adopt I would not even have the kid, there is 9 months of eating and caring for the kid already. But I am really surprised with how much stuff I had to do.
Here is the list.
Hold Moms hand during pushing.
Cut the Cord.
Within 5 min of cutting the cord the nurse weighed and cleaned baby, then was like you want to put on the first diaper. Boom done.
Hold baby and calm them down while they are finishing up on wife.
Get wife water, and bring over baby to be feed and get skin to skin time.
Notify waiting Grandparents and uncles on what the status is.
Pass out Pink bubble gum Cigars.
Listen to doctors on what to do.
This is where it gets real, once everyone leaves. Help Mom in and out of bed to use bathroom etc.
Make sure she is eating and drinking enough for milk production.
Make sure to hold and burp baby after eating.
Change baby again.
Talk to all the nurses so mom can sleep.
Get mom up and hook her back up after the bathroom. Due to the wife having a blood clot issue, she always has to wear the leg compression machine in the hospital.
Help her feed baby, take baby so she can sleep.
Really I became the personal assistant, but if you are a single mom you have no time to rest. I only slept for 2 hours the first 36 hours of our babies life. Not that she was really crying, but just there is that much stuff to do. Make sure both of my ladies were getting what they needed food, water, diapers, love, ice packs, and snugs. Okay snugs and love are close to the same thing. But I am impressed that one person could do all that, especially after giving birth. I could not imagine how exhausted they would be.