how were your experiences with your first child? how much sleep did you get? how much time did you have for your partner or your hobbies?

I have to say, I'm glad that I don't have to work now and can focus on my family

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Forget sleep. It was just a dream.

sleep or the time with your kids?

It's all an exhausted blur until they hit 5th grade, or so. 😂

i still have my rose colored glasses on 🤣🤣🤣🤣 the little one slept 2 hours then 4 hours and 2 hours on my belly last night

Oooh, it's so adorable when they do that. 😊

yes, but it feels a bit unfair ... my wife has to feed the little one and i get to cuddle her

Too hard to relay, that close to the food.

Relax. 😂 I'm on Nostr so much that my spellcheck has been mistrained.

Sleep? I think I averaged 5-6 a night but my wife didn’t get as much. It really changed once I could take the 3am shift with a bottle.

I had enough time to get a 20-30min workout in but hobbies (besides listening to podcasts or audio books) pretty much fell off.

Looking back on it, it was all kind of a sleep-deprived blur for six-ish months. We’re about to have our second so my baby advice might be refreshed here in a few weeks 😂

at the moment i feel like a tire changer in formula 1 only i'm changing diapers 🤣

Changing diapers and cleaning spit up cloths is a hobby!

it feels like one 😄 did you work full-time with your first child?

I had two weeks off and then back to full time work but my boss let me WFH which was nice. My wife has 12 weeks off which is great!

do you live in the usa?

that's one of the good things about germany my wife and me can easily stay at home for a year or more without losing our jobs.

Ich weiß noch, dass meine Frau sich öfter die Nächte um die Ohren geschlagen hatte als ich.

Einer muss ja fit sein, um das Geld zu verdienen.

😉

Mein Tipp ist, dem Baby nicht alles unterzuordnen.

Auch übertriebene Rücksicht 'rächt' sich irgendwann.

Will sagen, wenn man es vermeidet bloß keine Geräusche zu machen, wenn das Baby schläft, dann kann es irgendwann auch nur noch schlafen wenn es ganz ruhig ist.

Wir haben uns da langsam rangetastet, am Ende konnten wir neben unserer schlafenden Tochter staubsaugen, ohne dass sie aufgewacht ist.

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Das sind echt gute Tipps 🙂 momentan ist die kleine total unempfindlich suf Geräusche

Ich fand es erstaunlich mit wie wenig Schlaf man über längere Zeit auskommen kann. We are made for having kids.

Läuft erstaunlich gut, es gibt natürlich auch mal Nächte die nicht so optimal sind aber im großen und ganzen lässt uns unser Sohn ganz gut schlafen. In seine Hobbies muss man seine Familie einfach integrieren, mein Sohn wächst quasi an der Rennstrecke auf, wenn wir nicht gerade zu Hause sind 😅.