I'm on paternity leave...

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balloonshark

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My schedule today

6AM Woke up
Make breakfast help getting everybody (3 kids and wife) ready for work, school and kindergarten.
7.30 Everyone leaves, me included as 2nd eldest is starting at 1st grade, so I have to bring toddler too. We leave on bike.
8.30 return home, play a little with the toddler, and prepare food.
9.00 feed toddler
9.30 change diaper and make her fall a sleep.
9.45-11.15 Toddler sleeps: Clean after breakfast, clean after toddler, take a bath, make lunchboxes for tomorrow.
11.30 Feed toddler
12.00 Do the groceries
12.45-13.30 Have fun with toddler
13.10 Child number two return from school with a friend
13.30 prepare milk and change diaper
14.00-15.30 2nd naptime, try to do some work, but finds out I've borked my Linux install, try to fix
15.30 first child return home, take care of toddler
16.00 start dinner and other kitchen stuff
17.30 dinner time
18.30-20.30 be with kids, clean, make sure everything is ready for nap time and tomorrow.
21.30 All kids finally sleep.

Two days a week my wife has the early shift so I have all four kids for breakfast.... :)
Behold the horror of socialism. :p
 
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mikeymikec

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Were there any irregularities during the pregnancy?

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bba_tcg

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Because ripping a baby out of your va-jay-jay was so traumatic?

I get a female taking maternity leave after giving birth...but the man? Nope...get your ass to work.

Oh...and congrats on another kid. Need me to tell you what causes that?
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I finally figured it out. I had sex with my ex 3 times and coincidentally, I have 3 kids. I'm a slow learner, but I get there.

Congrats OP.
 

biostud

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i hope you named ... her? ... something decent. something serious. idk, like "Athena" or "Artemis". NOT Shaniqua.
She is +10 months so yeah, we have given her a name.

Sofie, and we have Karen (yeah it does not have the same meaning in Denmark as US :p), Caroline, Anna and now Sofie.

We prefer relatively neutral names, so they can grow up to be just as boring as their parents whoever they want. ;)
 
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biostud

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"Real work" is so easy, compared to raising a baby, or even pretty much up through 4-5 years old.
I wouldn't say it is harder but it is different, you have to use completely different skills, and especially as a male I think it is a really good idea to get an idea about what i takes to take responsibility for your family and your kids while building relations between you, not "just" being the "provider".

But there has to be a system which supports this.
 

JM Aggie08

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Paternity leave was the best, especially within the first 2 months of them being born. FAR more downtime than most people expect.