{ Fatherhood Anniversary }

Earlier this month was my daughter first birthday, thus making it my first year anniversary of becoming a father. I became a father at 29, which in my opinion is not a bad time for me to start a family.

I learned a lot and is still learning as I progress to level 2 (years old). The one obvious thing that I will never get back is; free time. Before, It was easier to do anything you want. You got all the time you need and suddenly there is none.

I consider myself of having a very active lifestyle. I play football and futsal a a lot, and I try to keep myself healthy and fit as best as I can. It’s different now as on my free time I just go to sleep to recharge. However, the lost time is not something that I regretted as it is now invested to something more important.

During the course of my wife’s pregnancy, I remembered it felt like a long 9 months but this first birthday felt too fast and as a warning to future parents; first year is hard. Maybe the hard work makes time flies fast or just the enjoyment of having a child.

But you don’t care about the negatives, as there is so much more positives that you achieved and witnessed. The first day, the smile, the laugh, and even the cough makes you happy (my kid like to pretend cough).

Figuring things out is all what I did, I read about babies, I watched youtube, scrolled hours on reddit just reading on how to change diapers for a baby. Diaper change for the first week was hard, every time I just felt that I would break my baby with every touch. They felt so fragile but in reality is they are just durable and very flexible.

My daughter does not sleep in her own bed, so our bed is currently fenced up (she fell down before) and our sleep pattern is still all over the place as she likes to slap/sit on our face.

As a note, my life is much better now; happiest I had ever been. All of it because of my wife.