re: Did your wife change after your first kid?

Yes of course. One of us had to and I certainly wasn't ready back then.

She actually became less dramatic. Not sure how else to explain. Overnight, she started taking things more in stride than ever before. And still does almost 7 years later.

She also basically quit drinking. Obviously that started when she was pregnant, but it didn't really come back after the birth. This is sometimes good and sometimes bad. She'll still get boozy on rare occasionsthese days, but not like before.