Assuming propogation of the species is the ultimate form of survival, check out my contribution #2:

Congrats! So, now your EDC includes diapers and wipes, ehh? <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Yeah...I'd forgotten how much extra stuff you have to pack...now I have about *twenty* diaper bags that were full of samples...I suppose they'll also do double duty as lunch bags <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Is that a Princeton Tec I see peeking out from the blanket? Nahhhhhhhhhhhh..... anyway, congrats!

Sleeping peacfully because she knows that daddy is prepared!

Congratulations!!!!

Matt J.

Congratulations!

Keep up the good work. Wishing you many more happy ones as well!

Congratulations! Well done.
Best wishes for you and your family.

Congrats! As I am now a "seasoned" baby sitter, having a 18 week old boy in the house (No, He's not my boy!), I have just one piece of advice: If she is asleep, and you have no reason to wake her up, DO NOT WAKE HER UP! I learn from my mistakes... <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />.

Congrats! Best wishes to you and your (well prepared) family. <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Heh heh...not a princeton tec...daddy has way too many Maglites...

Congrats and enjoy the sleep you can still get as soon without.

reinhardt

Congratulations !!!

Alain

Thanks to all...never thought of a diaper bag as a survival kit, but after the first two days home...

Congrats,

How parents survive the first a few months is a big question. It has been 13 months and my back has taken the shape of the coach in the living room. The only times I take a nice sharp sleep are when I am out on mission or camp.

By the way the used diapers are good fuel <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hope you have a long, happy and healthy life with your family and children.

Burak

Isn't it ironic that every major appliance that you buy comes with an owner's manual, but when you bring the little ones home from the hospital, all they give you is a single sheet of instructions? <img src="images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> After 12 years, I'm STILL trying to figure this parenting thing out. <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Congratulations Billy! Enjoy.

I had to make two trips to the car to unload all the stuff the hospital gave us...of course, it helps that I work there. When my daughter was born I had back up lights ready to go because an ice storm was on its way...and in the last four years, the backup generator has failed to start once, and once both of our feeds from the grid blew up (loudly!).

Between that and emergency birth classes, I was about as prepared as you can get.

Congrats and best wishes!

Chris.

Congrats and best wishes to you and yours

Ed

As a father of two wonderful daughters, I will offer you this advice: kids are like a gob of clay. If you take the time needed to form and shape them without overworking the material, they come out better than you can imagine. Teach them at an early age to appreciate your experience by putting them in controlled situations and making either listen to you or become uncomfortable. Don't try and insulate them from the world, teach them what you know they will need to know to get by and be aware of their environment at all times.

You will be able to sleep at night knowing you did what needed to be done. We just had two attempted abductions here this week, and both were foiled because the children recognized the threat early and responded as they had been taught. Don't leave it up to the school teachers.

I hope your kids bring you as much joy and happiness as mine do. You now have the most important job in the world. Congratulations on your promotion. <img src="images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

A very Darwinian congrats! She looks so beautiful resting there.... now you have the fun part to deal with <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Congratulations! <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Whens she getting her first knife then? <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hmmm...knives for kids...somewhere around fivish, depends on the kiddo...the exMrs.Guttery still won't let my first daughter have one, and she's six...but she gets to use one over here (under supervision).

Congratulations and best wishes. Now the fun begins. (Father of two)

.... I have heard that the first months, you will be lucky if you can sleep a few hours a day ; afterwards, it's just a matter of 17 or 18 years, during which you will have to worry and have difficult nights ....
After that, you should be able to rest in peace ......... <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


Alain

My daughter can do whatever she wants until she is 16 after that she is grounded.

Matt