Beano is Back and He’s a Daddy! [PICTURES]

So, let me start of by saying that all those cliché phrases you hear from parents are all true, every last one of them. (Having a kid will 'change your life’, ‘be the best thing ever’, ‘be different once it’s YOUR kid’, etc.)

There is no way to articulate it, explain it, or make anyone who hasn't had the experience believe it. But the day your newborn child comes into the world is like no other.

My wife and I welcomed a little girl into the world this month and I’m sure you’ll hear plenty about her in the future (Although, I swore to myself I wouldn’t become one of those people who can’t talk about anything other than their kid). Allow me to introduce you to my daughter, Annabelle.

To say that her delivery didn’t go quite as expected would e putting it lightly. But we are all home, healthy, and happy.

My wife went into labor about a week early and endured 27+ hours of horrid discomfort before the decision was made to do a c-section (Yes, the dreaded “C” word that they teach you to fear in child birth classes). For the safety of my wife and our new child it needed to be done, and things worked out jut fine. (By the way, if you’re ever in the operating room during a cesarean procedure and get the urge to look and see what’s going on…know that you’re probably better off not knowing. Trust me. One glimpse was enough to know I should have kept my eyes on the floor tiles.)

At this point we had been awake for most of 58-straight hours when we found out that as a precaution for deadly infections, our baby had to remain in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for two days. Complications led to two more days, then two more…it was torture. Finally, we got the best Valentine’s Day gift ever and got to take Annabelle home. (Kind of fitting as V-Day was her expected due date).

Suffice it to say, things were rough, but it was all worth it. (I know that because my wife believes the same thing, and I didn’t have to go through even a fraction of what she did.)

What have I learned so far?

• Changing diapers isn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
• Baby poop, on the other hand...is much worse.
• Babies don’t seem so breakable when they are your own.
• Dressing small human being is like solving a Tilt-Maze puzzle with two large rodents fighting inside of it.
• Any article of newborn clothing hat requires more than 5-snaps should be burned.
• Babies can sleep through ANYthing…except the night.

Welcome to the world Annabelle, it’s going to be a wild ride, but I’m looking forward to every moment.