being Daddy

Recently became proud dad of baby girl. Remember the day i got the news.. i happened to be in different continent (thousands of miles away) from where my wife delivered our child. i was expecting some great emotion to overcome me..but frankly i was just numb.. definitely happy, teared up a bit, but this sort of weird feeling that i have become a dad. what does that mean? nothing seemed to have changed. yet.. i still was alone.. had to get my lazy butt to work.. but 2 days later i got to see her on webcam.. was very exciting..then later when i saw her pictures i was genuinely happy.. i come home from work and check out her photos in slide show.. cheered me a lot.. still didnt quite feel like iam a dad.. then 2 weeks later was in india on vacation to see my wife and child..

some of my friends warned me that my life would never be same.. first day with my family, no change.. she slept well.. second night, she was like 'ok dad- time to do some real work.. she was restless.. didnt sleep for more than 10 minutes. was up literally all night.. patting her, walking up and down.. man that was something..and then it hit me.. i had new immense respect for my wife and all mothers.. she had patiently dealt with it for many days.. didnt sleep for more than 2 hours (that too in patches).. she never complained.. thats mother/child bond i guess.. i aint going to lie.. after that night of no sleep i was freaking out inside as to how the heck will i deal with this every night..luckily she was ok the next night..ofcourse ok still means feed her/change her diapers every 2 hours..