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my changes: o hair loss (Eldest's birth and early life was traumatic) o Loss of short term memory (mostly temporary, sleep loss related.) o loss of hearing (

my changes: o hair loss (Eldest's birth and early life was traumatic) o Loss of short term memory (mostly temporary, sleep loss related.) o loss of hearing (eldest was fond of screaming) o grey hair. We split child care into two shifts. I took nights, wife took days. Hence why I had less sleep than the wife.

turk73 7y ago
The first six months of my daughter's life were a lot like what you describe. She had "colic" (medical term for: we don't know what's wrong) and would never settle down until she started eating solid foods. After that, we were good. But those first six months, wow! I would get home from work and she would hand me our daughter and head to bed. It was like that for six months, no breaks. Anyhow she is 14 now and she's a musician and is great at math, writing, and she does great anime drawings. We also have a second child, a son, 9, and clearly the five year span between kids was not completely left to chance. I empathize with those who have true special needs children because just raising "regular" kids is traumatic.
nradov 7y ago
It seems unlikely that a child could scream loud enough to cause significant hearing loss.
- rlucas 7y ago
  It’s the fact that the source of sound is often 10-20 cm from your ear. As the average source-ear distance grows though, their lung volume grows too so you end up with a looong period of dangerous sound pressure levels.
- KaiserPro 7y ago
  Babies can scream at 120db. (supposedly 130, but I find that hard to believe) not only that its at about 3.5khz. now look at this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour Right in the loudness contour. children, less so, babies yes. number two is nowhere near as loud or as prone to screaming
  - Japhy_Ryder 7y ago
    > Babies can scream at 120db. (supposedly 130, but I find that hard to believe) That sounds absolutely terrible. I am not looking forward to having a kid. :-(
    - KaiserPro 7y ago
      ahhh You'll do fine. I was unlucky, I had a screamy one. The second child barely cries at all.

turk73 7y ago

The first six months of my daughter's life were a lot like what you describe. She had "colic" (medical term for: we don't know what's wrong) and would never settle down until she started eating solid foods. After that, we were good. But those first six months, wow! I would get home from work and she would hand me our daughter and head to bed. It was like that for six months, no breaks. Anyhow she is 14 now and she's a musician and is great at math, writing, and she does great anime drawings. We also have a second child, a son, 9, and clearly the five year span between kids was not completely left to chance. I empathize with those who have true special needs children because just raising "regular" kids is traumatic.

nradov 7y ago

It seems unlikely that a child could scream loud enough to cause significant hearing loss.

rlucas 7y ago
It’s the fact that the source of sound is often 10-20 cm from your ear. As the average source-ear distance grows though, their lung volume grows too so you end up with a looong period of dangerous sound pressure levels.
KaiserPro 7y ago
Babies can scream at 120db. (supposedly 130, but I find that hard to believe) not only that its at about 3.5khz. now look at this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour Right in the loudness contour. children, less so, babies yes. number two is nowhere near as loud or as prone to screaming
- Japhy_Ryder 7y ago
  > Babies can scream at 120db. (supposedly 130, but I find that hard to believe) That sounds absolutely terrible. I am not looking forward to having a kid. :-(
  - KaiserPro 7y ago
    ahhh You'll do fine. I was unlucky, I had a screamy one. The second child barely cries at all.