i think congrats are in order

[leah]

to DREM on the birth of his sweet little one. mazel tov!

[Menelvir]

Congrats Drem!

[Zanchief]

Crazy, we all starting posting here as angry teenagers and now we're all older angry parents.

When's your little one due, Leah?

[leah]

what, like five years ago? i thought pregnancy was only supposed to last nine months!

[Drem]

thank you!!!! so far so good will post pictures when we go home

[Menelvir]

Crazy, we all starting posting here as angry teenagers and now we're all older angry parents.

Not all of us... My specific genetic line will die when I do.

I'm such a contrarian that it extended to a genetic level and my own genes were self-defeating.

<draws aerial hashmark>
Me: 1
my genes: 0


he said, smugly

Luckily, I feel genetically close enough (say 99.8%) to the rest of humanity that I'm not going to shed any tears over it... I'll just have to "carry on" vicariously through the rest of humanity's reproductive success.

[Ganzo]

Congrats Drem, welcome to a year of not sleeping

[Zanchief]

Crazy, we all starting posting here as angry teenagers and now we're all older angry parents.

Not all of us... My specific genetic line will die when I do.

I'm such a contrarian that it extended to a genetic level and my own genes were self-defeating.

<draws aerial hashmark>
Me: 1
my genes: 0


he said, smugly

Luckily, I feel genetically close enough (say 99.8%) to the rest of humanity that I'm not going to shed any tears over it... I'll just have to "carry on" vicariously through the rest of humanity's reproductive success.

You're one strange dude Mene.

[Drem]

i read his posts in the style of carl sagan. really fit the mormon post, hahahah

[Drem]

Congrats Drem, welcome to a year of not sleeping

yeah, seriously. already started last night. thanks!

[Menelvir]

You're one strange dude Mene.

I'll take it as a compliment.

But I think I'm a bit too self-focused for children, in all honesty -- that, and too lazy.

P.S. While I'm sure Carl had a broad diversity of interests, one of them probably wasn't muscle cars. And I'm nowhere near Sagan's class intellectually. I just overthink everything equally and try to make semi-intelligent comments on what I observe around me.

[Lyion]

Congrats, Drem. First year was a fun time for me. Then they grow up, unfortunately

[Tikker]

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[brinstar]

You're one strange dude Mene.

I'll take it as a compliment.

But I think I'm a bit too self-focused for children, in all honesty -- that, and too lazy.

P.S. While I'm sure Carl had a broad diversity of interests, one of them probably wasn't muscle cars. And I'm nowhere near Sagan's class intellectually. I just overthink everything equally and try to make semi-intelligent comments on what I observe around me.

carl was a huge stoner fyi

[Harrison]

The "not sleeping" is greatly exaggerated with most kids.

Those horror stories stem from a small portion of people who have kids who never sleep through the night until they're almost 2. After the breast feeding or every 2 hour feeding, it's a lot easier.

[Zanchief]

The "not sleeping" is greatly exaggerated with most kids.

Those horror stories stem from a small portion of people who have kids who never sleep through the night until they're almost 2. After the breast feeding or every 2 hour feeding, it's a lot easier.

Something we agree with. My kids (3 of them) were all good sleepers. Maybe I was lucky, but our trick was consistency. Keep to a schedule. All my kids slept from 11pm to 5am with an occasional feeding at night. Sleep wasn't that big a problem. More so with the last since I had to watch two kids while the wife was nursing.

[Drem]

The "not sleeping" is greatly exaggerated with most kids.

Those horror stories stem from a small portion of people who have kids who never sleep through the night until they're almost 2. After the breast feeding or every 2 hour feeding, it's a lot easier.

yeah he feeds for about 30-45 mins and passes out for four hours. so far so good. not really worried either way tho. my wife n i run opposite schedules, so someone will always be awake to watch while the other sleeps

how's your kid doin? gettin big now?

[Harrison]

We run opposite schedules too, so it was easy for us once we got out of the hospital.

He's 18 months now. Walking, talking, and great. For being born 2 months early at 3lbs 10oz, he's completely normal. He's ahead of all developmental milestones they wanted us to keep track of, even.

We're teaching him sign language alongside English. It's way more rewarding and fun once you can interact with them like this and it feels like less of a really demanding pet.

[Drem]

nice, that's awesome. i didn't even think about sign language. he will be bilingual in vietnamese and english, however

[Harrison]

They pick up on sign language really early, way before words are forming clearly.

My son asks for the things he wants with both words and sign language now, but he used to do it with sign language before he learned the words.

Milk

More

Please

Hungry

Thank you

Are all really easy for them to learn and not just mimic but actually know when to use them.

[Drem]

that's awesome. might go that route. thanks for the tip