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It is a feeling that will overcome you like you never imagined. When your wife places that positive pregnancy test before you it will make you feel as if everything else in the world is magnified at the same time that everything else has become meaningless. You care a little less about who wins the OU/Texas game that year and a little more about eating healthy. A little less about watching the Final Four and a little more about your life insurance. It all changes in one swift motion and it couldn’t be any better.

My Wife and I were trying to get pregnant so the act of finding out that we actually were was not a shock, but the idea of having our own child was more overwhelming than I expected. I suddenly realized that my life had just become a lot less important in respect to my own self interests and a lot more important in my ability as a provider. My relationship with my wife had always been centered on being on equal ground, but now I needed to take care of her physically and emotionally with what she was going through, take care of my new baby in the same way and realize that I needed to change what mattered to me.

I spent countless hours trying to find out what the best healthcare plan was, trying to figure out how to maximize our earning potential and finding out just what eating healthy meant. That little positive pregnancy test threw my world upside down in ways I never imagined and in ways I could’ve only hoped for previously. This blog is not just going to be about pregnancy and newborn children, but how to handle these changes from the dad’s point of view, how to prepare for being not just a father, but a good one.

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