Why my wife is awesome

[warriorchick]

Brew's been quiet.

My guess is that Mrs. Brew has not.

[Lennys Tap]

My guess is that Mrs. Brew has not.

I literally loled

[brewcity77]

My guess is that Mrs. Brew has not.

She was taking it all like a champ, barely made a peep through contractions. But ultimately opted for the epidural, which sounds like a near inevitability with pitocin. Hoping we're in the homeward stretch.

[#UnleashSean]

She was taking it all like a champ, barely made a peep through contractions. But ultimately opted for the epidural, which sounds like a near inevitability with pitocin. Hoping we're in the homeward stretch.

Jeez I was unaware it was anywhere near normal to take this long.

[warriorchick]

She was taking it all like a champ, barely made a peep through contractions. But ultimately opted for the epidural, which sounds like a near inevitability with pitocin. Hoping we're in the homeward stretch.

Lucky you. She is sparing you from all the profanity I hurled at Glow during crunch time.

[warriorchick]

Jeez I was unaware it was anywhere near normal to take this long.

Depends on the situation.

[brewcity77]

Jeez I was unaware it was anywhere near normal to take this long.

This is longer than usual because of the inducement. They started with the first drug last night that prepares the body to give birth. She was on that for 13 hours before they started anything else.

They started with a really slow pitocin drip this morning to start the contractions. They built steadily through the day, but everything kind of slowed down around 6 pm (9 hours into pitocin). We're now 13 hours into pitocin and 26 overall. Going to try to nap and hoping for the next few hours.

[jsglow]

Lucky you. She is sparing you from all the profanity I hurled at Glow during crunch time.

Nah, but chick was pissed at the doctors who kept saying 'Not yet'.

[4everwarriors]

If they keep stickin' der fingers in der checkin' the dilation, that'll move thin's along, hey?

[mu_hilltopper]

.. you won't believe how fast the grow.

Brew, I hate to tell you, but this is false.  The next 3 years of your life will feel like 100.

[🏀]

Brew, I hate to tell you, but this is false.  The next 3 years of your life will feel like 100.

+300 years

[MomofMUltiples]

It's when you look back 20 years from now that you'll look back and won't believe how fast they grew.

[jsglow]

Brew, I hate to tell you, but this is false.  The next 3 years of your life will feel like 100.

It's weird.  Every 3 years feels like 100.  And then they go off to college and you think 'That was fast. But now I'm effin' old.'

[🏀]

Worse than the slowing of time is the perpetual game of "It'll be better when.."

It'll be better when he can crawl, it'll be better when he can walk, it'll be better when....

It'll be better when she can drink more, it'll be better when she can hold the bottle, it'll be better when she starts eating cereal, it'll be better when she can eat solid foods..

[Windyplayer]

This is longer than usual because of the inducement. They started with the first drug last night that prepares the body to give birth. She was on that for 13 hours before they started anything else.

They started with a really slow pitocin drip this morning to start the contractions. They built steadily through the day, but everything kind of slowed down around 6 pm (9 hours into pitocin). We're now 13 hours into pitocin and 26 overall. Going to try to nap and hoping for the next few hours.

Perhaps the most impressive scoop on Scoop in years. Looking forward to the good news.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

My guess is that Mrs. Brew has not.

[GooooMarquette]

It's weird.  Every 3 years feels like 100.  And then they go off to college and you think 'That was fast. But now I'm effin' old.'

The days go slowly, but the years fly by at the speed of light.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

The days go slowly, but the years fly by at the speed of light.

An interesting theory trying to explain this phenomenon.

https://www.quora.com/Do-humans-perceive-time-differently-as-they-age

[MUDPT]

My number one advice to first time dads is bring lots of snacks to delivery. Don't want to be gone long and significant other can't eat anything. 

[BM1090]

An interesting theory trying to explain this phenomenon.

https://www.quora.com/Do-humans-perceive-time-differently-as-they-age

Well, that's depressing.

[MU82]

I admit I'm not big on babies. When my wife was pregnant with our first, friends who recently had kids were always offering to let me hold their babies. I was like, "No thanks ... I can wait for my own."

For a couple years, they're mostly needy, crying, puking, crapping machines. C'mon ... all y'all parents know it's true.

But after a couple years they start to get personalities, and then it becomes a blast. I loved ages 3 to about 12, and I liked the several years after that. Yeah, there's some drama during the teen years and into the 20s, but nothing we all couldn't survive as a family. My kids turned out great -- my wife gets 80% of the credit, and luck gets 19.9% of it. (I'll accept 0.1%.)

And yes, when my daughter had senior day for the last home basketball game of her career, I cried like one of those babies I used to have no use for!

It does go by too freakin' fast!!!

Oh ... and brewski ... keep those updates coming!!

Perhaps the only birth-of-child play-by-play in sports-fan-board history!

[brewcity77]

Worse than the slowing of time is the perpetual game of "It'll be better when.."

It'll be better when he can crawl, it'll be better when he can walk, it'll be better when....

It'll be better when she can drink more, it'll be better when she can hold the bottle, it'll be better when she starts eating cereal, it'll be better when she can eat solid foods..

I was thinking "it will be better when they can move out of the house 

Taking a break from the pushing. We're almost there, but she's getting a nap before we finish. I just snuck 3 hours of sleep so I'm good to go the duration.

[GGGG]

I always broke it into segments.

Birth to school-age: took forever

Elementary school: normal time

Middle and high school: time warp.

[tower912]

Nah, but chick was pissed at the doctors who kept saying 'Not yet'.

Mrs. Tower actually punched me.  Turns out there are times when jokes aren't well received.

[dgies9156]

I was thinking "it will be better when they can move out of the house 

Then you realize how much you miss them.

I'll take anytime but Middle School -- that was miserable.

We still talk fondly of our son's imagination as a child (it was very large), our daughter's learning to speak English (she was an overseas adoption) or learning to tie her shoes etc and a host of other great memories. They're a hoot!