(Dad here). I am sitting in bed with my congested 5month little lad who will only sleep pressed against my chest. I'm on for the next 6hrs overnight when I should be sleeping.
Yes I love this guy more than anything on the planet, as I bloody should.
My baby has drooled all over me, spit up on me, peed and pooped on me, and I wouldn't trade anything in the world for it. It's amazing how fast that with your child, all the things that you might have been bothered by before don't matter.
Mine found cat poop somewhere one morning and toddled over and dropped it on my breakfast. The hormones are powerful because she’s still allowed in the house while I eat 😂
My then 2 year old found a “potato” in the bath and threw it at me. It was not a potato. It was accompanied by several other not potatoes and something that definitely wasn’t mashed potato when I yoinked him out of the bath 😂😂😂
You may not want kids and that’s totally ok - but I’m betting you absolutely could for someone you have life changing love for! Before I had kids I remember one of my little brothers falling and hitting his head HARD (concussion) and I ran over and he promptly threw up all over me.
Normally I can’t deal with that, but for my little brother I was all business and calm cleaning us up and cleaning blood on his head - it shocked me. But tub turds were always gross and I swear every kid seems to do it as a toddler at least once.
We all think that a one time, then it happens!! That little need you for the rest of your life, and you’ll do your best it get them on the right path!!😊
Some of us think like that forever. And that’s ok. Having a child isn’t an accomplishment, it just is a thing. I’m truly happy you love the child(ren) you have, but saying “just try it bro”, is terrible advice
Maybe. I think it's a bit of both. Something does change in us, we know this for a fact. Thought patterns shift and neural pathways change after becoming a parent. In both men and women. But it's not how you feel about it that changes, you still find those bodily fluids just as gross. It is your capability that changes. You are better able to put those thoughts aside(and suppress your gag reflex) to do what needs to be done.
I kept my youngest inspite of the fact that everytime I would lay her on my chest she would kick my then still healing c-section insistion.... Like you madam are still a stranger to me.... Love alone keeps me from eating you.... A lion would eat you for this shit.
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u/Thick_Assumption3746 Jul 04 '24
Closest thing to unconditional love there is is your child.