re: Ways to maximize my last two months without a kid?

If you play the drums or always wanted to, now is your window.

Congrats, btw!

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All yall saying sleep I don't know why...you can't bank it up

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To me its more about being able to sleep when you want or without interruption on my own terms. All of that disappears AK ... after kids.

I got hammered drunk a lot and slept in. You can still get drunk with a kid but the sleeping in shite is over.

Plus you have a designated driver right now.

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To me its more about being able to sleep when you want or without interruption on my own terms.

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Valid. yea that's gone. Thankfully me and my wife were able to do a shift schedule so those first few months we each got at least 5-6 uninturrupted hours a night instead of both of us being fricking miserable. It could be because of that, it could be because I have insomnia and my sleep was fricked anyway...but the sleep thing was by far one of the easiest for me to cope with....8 months in still is

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because you will never want a hangover again once jr comes and is wide awake at 0500 needing attention

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By the time they are old enough to sleep in and be self-sufficient without you, you'll be so damn used to it you'll still wake up at 5-6am on the weekends and your day off

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This is the dumbest advise ever.

You don't bank sleep.

Just get prepared. Take your wife for a nice meal and rest. When the baby comes it will be hard, but give yourself grace. Next thing you know they will be almost kicked out of preschool for mooning and have a dead tooth from falling at his birthday party, and be paying $400 per week for summer camp.

I am actually in the same boat as you. First child due early may. The wife and I are going on a little long weekend trip Thursday.

We have the nursery ready and a frick ton of diapers in the closet. I think we are ready in that aspect but I’m thinking this is about to hit us like a ton of bricks. I’m a person that has always loved to sleep and have time to myself. That will be a bit of a change up for me but I think I’m ready.

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Ways to maximize my last two months without a kid?

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Strength training if you aren’t already. Best decision I made was to get in my best physical shape prior to having first child.

Travel with or without the wife. Definitely recommend a “baby moon.” Go to 30A and see what your life is about to turn into.

Start playing a sport in the evening once per week that you can continue to do once the baby is born.

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I'm not particularly in any rush to see the last one go

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I was in a hurry. My two youngest are daughters that fought constantly with my wife/their mom. I remember when my oldest daughter was about 16, I told her and my wife that one of them had to get out of my house before I killed both of them. Wasn’t much better with the youngest one. Now that both girls are off at college, they have a much better relationship with their mom. And my wife and I have a better relationship!!

Mrs. Cotten and I have a 6 month old. Congrats on the incoming little one Baw!

I spent my last 6 months before becoming a Father building all of the furniture for our little one's room. I did that for a few reasons but mostly because I knew I drank a bit too much and wanted to find something healthier to do with my time before she came, but also because my Father and my Father's Dad did the same for them. Built her crib, two dressers, framed out and built a walk in closet in her room, her changing table out of reclaimed wood from our 138 year old home, just a ton of stuff that she hopefully passes on in the family once I'm gone. I also focused on my own health and ran at least every other day.

Besides that, we just enjoyed our last few months of being able to lay in bed all weekend barely moving and sleeping in, fricking uninterrupted with the bedroom door open all day, watching movies and eating pizza/Chinese in bed whenever we wanted, etc. I also got stoned to the absolute bone everyday until the little one came. As others have said, enjoy the seggs now; even after she's cleared at the 6 week checkup it'll be a few weeks/months before you can really smash it out and enjoy it like you used to.