Fatherhood, Crystalized
In my conversations with other fathers, many have said that the moment when impending parenthood “became real” for them was when they first heard their baby’s heartbeat. That wasn’t it for me. I knew the baby was real, and I knew that my life was going to change forever as soon as the stick showed two lines all those months ago.
For me, the abstract became concrete for me only today. It happened during a conversation with my wife while we were slashing everything except the core essentials off of our “getting ready for baby” list. This is it. This is the real thing. In a month I’ll be a father.
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