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

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[–] databender@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tagger@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] mercator_rejection@programming.dev 3 points 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.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 3 points 11 months ago

That's the neat part, you don't!