Do I Look Like a Daddy to You? - A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers

Zusatztext "An honest romp through the vicissitudes of the most important job of your life." -- Dr. Drew Pinsky! host of the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline Informationen zum Autor Quinton Skinner Klappentext It takes a baby to turn a guy into a man. Hard-won lessons of a first-time father — the good! the bad! and the big-time changes. "When I used to see a father holding a baby! I thought he was either a poor sap or else an übermensch possessed with talents and levels of forbearance that I would never attain. Now I live on the other side. I'm someone's daddy! and it's the best thing that ever happened to me." From pregnancy and childbirth through the whirlwind first year of fatherhood! Quinton Skinner shares the adventure of a lifetime: becoming a daddy — and loving it. Nobody said it would be easy. But if imminent fatherhood made Quinton sit up and take notice! baby Natasha's arrival was the making of the man. Here! with the infinite wisdom of hindsight! is his survival guide for first-time fathers everywhere! filled with hilarious anecdotes and practical advice on how to negotiate that critical first year of your baby's wonderful life. After a year of on-the-job training! Skinner explores: • Dealing with the pride — and panic — of your wife's pregnancy (see page 7) • To be or not to be (in birthing class) (see page 57) • The moment of truth in the delivery room (see page 77) • Finding romance after parenthood (see page 102) • Being the perfect dad while spacing out in front of the TV (see page 112) • The joys of sleep deprivation (see page 192) • Becoming a baby chef (see page 177) • Avoiding the poorhouse (see page 39) The Moment of Truth: Your Transformation Into a Father-to-Be Maybe you and your partner were planning to have a child together, maybe you weren't. Some of us are somewhere in between, ready to have a baby but simply letting nature take its course. Whatever you intended, the test has come back and the results are incontrovertible: you're going to be a Daddy. People talk about remembering precisely where they were when they learned that President Kennedy was assassinated or that Elvis had died. When a man learns that he's going to be a father, it's a moment of such great impact that he'll remember it forever. Everything in his life changes in an instant. And it's just the beginning of a lifelong journey. It might be hard to believe now, but in a couple of years he'll be hard-pressed to remember what life was like before his child came into the world. Welcome to the club, my friend. You're going to be someone's Daddy. So You've Ruined Your Life I remember where I was when they got me. I had been married to my wife, Sarah, for more than six years. We met in California, lived in Los Angeles, then moved to the Boston area when she was accepted into law school. We had relocated to Minneapolis the year before and bought a house. Life was good. My career was going well. I quit smoking and started working out. Soon I was going to turn thirty, a milestone that I was anticipating with more optimism than dread. I felt as though I had ironed out some of my internal wrinkles in my twenties, and that I had started to develop a talent for being happy and contented -- something that had eluded me in the postcollege years. Sarah had always wanted to have children, ever since she was a little girl, and she had been clear to me about this fact from the beginning of our relationship. We had even talked baby names amidst the initial surge of hormonal fireworks between us, just before we graduated from college. I had never thought about having children, but Sarah's desire to have them was fine with me. Anything she wanted would have been fine with me -- I fell for her the moment we met. Having children was part of the future, an aspect of...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Quinton Skinner
• Verlag: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.06.2001
• EAN: 9780440509141
• ISBN: 978-0-440-50914-1
• Seiten: 240
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Thema: Ratgeber > Lebenshilfe, Alltag > Lebensführung, Persönliche Entwicklung