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This just made me laugh out loud (which is fine except that I'm at work...). Just thought I'd pass it along for a laugh.

"My wife stopped breastfeeding my son at 3 months to treat a kidney stone she'd had for 6 months. I started getting up at night with him to do the midnight feedings. After about 6 weeks, he started sleeping through the night, but I kept getting up to make sure he was still breathing.

One night I had, what alcoholics refer to as, a moment of clarity. I realized that I would worry about him for the rest of my life.

I called my father that morning to apologize for all the sh!t I put him through."

Me too (2)

That guy is doing better than most. He's beginning to realize what making a baby really means (to his life) while the kid is still in diapers. Some parents never figure it out. Of course, it would be nice if he had a clue what he was getting into BEFORE he knocked up the missus. Maybe he should have thought about it once or twice...

That's an interesting take on his comment, Myrabeth. When I read that, I heard it more as "I love him so much that I will worry about him the rest of my life", and not in a negative, I wish I'd never had him way. I would "me too" that statement, but I would never have seen that realization as a negative one.

And the call to his father? It's the final moment of understanding parental love and all that it entails, and understanding finally how your parents must have felt all the times you stretched your wings to fly and they worried but let you soar anyways.

Dez

LOL, that's probably the funniest confession I've read in a WHILE

Dez, I didn't see his epiphany as a negative. What I saw as negative was that he didn't realize that a lifetime of worry was what he was signing up for sooner.

I guess my take on that is, it's a good worry, and I don't know many parents who would trade it for anything.

Dez