Mind sharing any piece of advice that you felt particularly useful? Thank you in advance. I’m so excited!

  • databender@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Congratulations! If that kid is asleep you should be too, at least for the first few years.

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      11 months ago

      I’m really sorry, but I hate this advice. If I’m sleeping when my baby is, when am I doing the laundry? having a shower? relaxing and watching TV with my wife? ect.

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        11 months ago

        Agreed, “sleep when the baby sleeps” is the advice we got the most, but doesn’t really hold water.

        With our first, my partner and I took turns napping or doing chores while the other was on baby duty. When the second came along, that advice was a joke, it was more like one parent per child and shower after the older one goes to sleep.