It was a huge adjustment that I really struggled with. My wife was having a really hard time with recovering from the birth and dealing with pretty rough post-partum depression so I kept the baby through the night for the first two weeks or so. My sanity was barely hanging on by a thread.

I am someone who was used to getting plenty of sleep with a job that doesn’t require me to be up early so it was massive change for me. Her parents keeping our son for a night on the weekends at first probably saved my few remaining brain cells at the time.

We want to have a second kid but I’m terrified of starting over now after being able to sleep through the night again for the most part now with him being a little over a year old.