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We had a 35-week baby stay a couple of weeks in the NICU too. Our maternity ward was far less paranoid over COVID, and we got to hold the baby during the C-sect
by prionassembly 5y ago
We had a 35-week baby stay a couple of weeks in the NICU too. Our maternity ward was far less paranoid over COVID, and we got to hold the baby during the C-section and for a while afterwards. Baby is just two months (unadjusted) and it's already annoying to always be explaining adjusted age and where people should be counting from for developmental placemarks.
I find as a father that sometimes the only way I can soothe the baby (mom breastfeeds and has to sleep during the daytime) is to take my shirt off and place him on my chest. I can almost code one-handed this way. I think babies somehow imprint to your smell or taste.
- syntaxing 5y agoTotally hear you but the bright side is that they catch up extremely quickly. My kid “caught up to average” within around nine months or so.
- jonathanlydall 5y agoYes! I just read this to my wife and we had to laugh a little as the adjusted age thing has definitely been a bug bear at times. At this point when people ask our child’s age, we almost always just say the adjusted age as it’s easier, especially with my wife’s gran who doesn’t speak English as her first language and then is worried about her being behind developmentally. In regards to the bonding, for me it’s a feeling like no other to have your baby see you and mom as the greatest two people in the whole world.