My Own Big Baby

wow, congratulations big daddy!

Congratulations! Enjoy her while you can. They grow up awfully fast.

Hey Jeff,

Congrats on your daughter! I know the feeling as my first child is approaching 1 years this month (born last thanksgiving day!). Since you mention the WNBA, you may be interested in this quick video I threw together of my daughter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbREHaBhN8.

Best wishes,
John

congratulations Jeff – must just be overwhelming… should be a hectic few weeks, best of luck!

Congrats, Jeff! My daughter was a big one too, 9lbs, 5 oz. She is 15 now and hates sports!

Again, congrats and good luck.

Confucius say Nothing more helpless than a new-born father.

Congratulations!

My daughter turned 30 yrs old last month…trust me,you’ll change your tune a few thousand times between now & then…HA!!!!!…congrats….now start concentrating on #18

I had my first child, a daughter as well, 16 months ago. I had many people tell me what a blessing it was, etc. I didn’t get it. Sure it was pretty intense watching a bowling ball emerge from my wife (and my favorite body part of hers). Even at that moment people call a miracle, I remember thinking…‘that can’t be good’. I still say the real miracle is the female bodies ability to ‘spring back’. Really quit phenominal. But I digress.

Alot of people, mostly guys, say the right thing. We have been taught, from a young age, that saying the right thing is very important….“tell your mother how nice she looks” type comments. But I have to be honest when asked if I was bonding with my daughter the first couple of months, the answer was no. I didn’t NOT like her…don’t get me wrong. But I didn’t have this huge emotional bond that I anticipated, or that my wife talked about having. I loved her, of course, but more on a responsibility level, on more of an intellectual level, not so much an emotional level. Let’s be honest, for the first few months she layed there, almost lifeless. Pooping, crying, eating….staring into space. Barely a look of recognition in her eyes.

It wasn’t until somewhere between 9.5 and 10 months that it hit me between the eyes. One day I came home, she looked up at me and said “da, da” and walked across the room and hugged my leg. The life….the excitement in her eyes seeing my. Maybe I am slow, but I think it was the first time I realized that she was a little human. The interaction with the world she has now is just shocking and amazing. I wasn’t real impressed with the physical abilities she developed…because let’s be honest, even dogs learn to walk. But watching her learn and talk is absolutely crazy. To watch her personality take shape infront of your eyes is amazing.

I just throw it out there because I felt strange and wrong for not having this emotional bond right away. It isn’t a bad thing…and if you were like me, just wait. That little girl will have you wrapped around her finger very shortly.

Anyway, hope someone understands what I mean and it helps….good luck Jeff.

Congratulations Jeff that is great news!

Congrats to you and your family, Jeff. My daughter, 13, has become a huge Celtic fan thanks to years of brainwashing by her dad. She even hates Kobe.

Congratulations Jeff!!!

My oldest son turns 11 Monday and I can remember every detail like it happened yesterday. It truly is an indescribable experience. Enjoy every moment.

Kira, eh? Couldn’t sell your wife on ’Red", eh?

Here is the single best piece of advice I can give a new parent. Remember sleep? Glorious sleep? 8-9 hours at a time? Well, cherish those memories and let them go.

You need to think of sleep as a series of naps. 20 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours… Whatever you can get, it’s all good.

If you do that, you will be ok. If you hang onto the idea that you need 8 hours of uninterupted sleep a night, you’ll have a, um… difficult time.

Good luck!

congratulations many times over.

Congratulations to the Clark family.

When, and if you ever have a boy, you have to finagle it so you can name it after a favorite Celtic, but without your wife learning of it (and throwing the kibosh on it). For someone like me, with no obvious connection to the Celtics, it was easy. My son’s now 25, and my wife has still never caught on. But for you, Jeff, it’d be harder to pull off.

God Bless both of you new parents, I know you will have a loving time. We had three girls and a son what a blessing always and now like starting again with two granddaghters. Yes they all love the Celtics!

Congratulations

welcome to our world kira lilian clark

Congrats! As the father of a 2.5 year old, my best advice to you is to sleep whenever you can. Do not think that, “She’s asleep—now I can get some work done.” That way leads to madness and total exhaustion. Sleep when she sleeps and in a few moths you’ll start to excavate out of the pile of work your under. All the best from a grateful ex-pat fan stuck in Georgia who has really appreciated having this site to go to for the past few years.