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Post by wingt74 on Feb 19, 2007 11:41:21 GMT -6
So, baby is here. I just spent a week in baby-boot camp. 8 days ago I had no idea how to change a diaper or feed/burp a baby, now I am a master.
so baby will be 6 months old when training camp is due to start. Head coach of freshman football. My schedule is M,T,W,T from 5:00-7:30 and Sat from 8am-12. Not to mention coach's meetings and what not.
My wife is awesome, and has always been very understanding during the season, but geez, this might be pushing the envelope.
Any other coach's faced with a similar situation? What did you do the make it go smoother?
Anyway, could be worse, could be a newborn in August or something.
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 19, 2007 11:52:06 GMT -6
Congrats!!! Don't sweat it, you'll be fine, it will work itself out. The important things is that you will now start getting gray hair and it will start falling out-this usually happens when they are around 2-3 months old, doesn't matter how old you are. You will also not get any sleep in spans of 2 hours or more for at least the next 4 years, so be prepared to sleep walk into things at 2 in the morning while getting up to prepare a bottle.  |
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Post by coachcalande on Feb 19, 2007 11:58:54 GMT -6
HEY CONGRATS!!! - I WAS IN YOUR SHOES- one thing I did was give up my own sleep time to help my wife with difficult nights. The baby is up and screaming or needs a diaper change or needs to be held,...do it, do it man! FOR GOSH SAKES DO IT!!!!! arrrrgh. One more thought, see if you can send your wife out on sundays wiht a girl friend for a couple of hours, she will need some human contact and i dont mean talking to you while you pretend to listen while actually being glued to the nfl games. I would say that you can expect to have full baby duty from the time you get home until the time you go back to work the next day.
anyhow, faith, family, football. congrats and best of luck!
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Post by millwoodcoach on Feb 19, 2007 12:05:55 GMT -6
My boy was born on July 24th last year and really started hitting football hard about Aug. 11th. My wife was great and didn't give me to hard a time. Just any spare time you can make, use it to help with the baby. Like one poster said let your wife go out with friends or by herself just to get away. I was lucky my wife was great and her along with my boy made most of the games this past year.
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Post by qbguru on Feb 19, 2007 12:15:29 GMT -6
I have a son due to drop in April. Excited but nervous about the time away. usually the summer has me at the high school every day for weights or passing or qb training. will I be able to keep up this schedule and not feel like I am neglecting my wife?
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Post by fbdoc on Feb 19, 2007 13:27:34 GMT -6
Make your plans now and over communicate everything with your wife. Coachcalande also made a good point in doing all it takes now to make training camp work. Remember you and wife are a team. Making the extra effort will pay huge dividends down the road.
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Post by Coach Huey on Feb 19, 2007 13:28:25 GMT -6
congrats, wingt74 ... children are awesome. i didn't realize how much i worked until i had a daughter and was always missing her .. lol. it makes you realize just how trivial so much of this "football stuff" really is.
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Post by coachf on Feb 19, 2007 13:48:37 GMT -6
Congratulations! It is amazing how you will find time despite the situation. I now have 2 kids under the age of 2 and it is difficult, but my wife is understanding and we manage. I have just learned to cut out a few things and make some decisions I wouldn't have made before. Like clinics, I just go up for a day now, I don't go on an overnighter. I try to get more prepared now, as well. I am spending at least an hour a day trying to get full prepared so I don't have to spend those 2 or 3 hours extra at the school in the summer.
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Post by dacoachmo on Feb 19, 2007 15:32:59 GMT -6
My son was 7 mths during this past FB season...gotta do as much possible when you are there. Leave practice ASAP on a few days. take Sundays off.
REMEMBER to support your WIFE and the baby!
When he was getting up every two hours We split the time. I had the 8-2am shift, she had the 2am on... shift.
He just turned a year, we trade who gets up early with him...
also remember the grandparents...
GET The Dunstan Baby Language DVD
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Post by coachjimmer on Feb 19, 2007 18:18:33 GMT -6
Dacoachmo wrote - "GET THE DVD that tells you what the DIFERENT CRYS are FOR!!!!"
Here is the tip from me...take a sign language class. When my wife was pregnant, we agreed to communicate with our daughter in American Sign Language until she is able to speak. It was wonderful to have her walk to me and tell she wants milk in signing. American Sign Language saved my sanity...
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Post by dacoachmo on Feb 19, 2007 18:52:08 GMT -6
The Dunstan Baby Language DVD Order your copy at www.dunstanbaby.com. It helps before the time the baby can sign. |
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Post by wingtol on Feb 19, 2007 19:30:20 GMT -6
Congrats! No kids here so no advice But congrats again! |
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Post by cc on Feb 19, 2007 23:41:47 GMT -6
Hey congrats coach!
And thanks for posting.
I have my first due Sept 14th!!!
AAAAHHH!!!
I teach full time and I am the head coach. How the heck will I do it???
Keep the advice coming guys!!!
My wife thinks I will need to take the season off to help out with the baby...How do football wife Mom's do it???
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Post by coachcoyote on Feb 20, 2007 0:11:56 GMT -6
Congrats on the new arrival. Do as many little things as you can. Help as much as you can, without being asked. If an assistant, learn to leave a little earlier, whenever possible. If the HC, learn to keep the meetings on target. Delegate a little more. Keep the BS to a minimum. If you take a season off, you will regret the time you weren't there and it might put a damper on the good thing about being at home. It usually works out, you guys just have to learn to give a little.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 20, 2007 6:30:22 GMT -6
I am even more worried wingt-my baby is due July 4-less than a month before practice starts, one of our other coaches wife is due 10 days after that! Talk about little sleep-the start of the season and a new baby!
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Post by bulldogoption on Feb 20, 2007 6:53:27 GMT -6
Congratulations!!!!! I could get so much more done if I didn't have kids, but my life would be much more lonely......
Two pieces of advice.
1. My advice is set a time for practice to be done.....Communicate that time to your players and your wife. THEN STICK TO IT. Moms have an incredibly hard time at home with kids. I could never do it. If you say you will be home at 5:30 pm, you had better be walking in the door at 5:30 pm. She will be standing there with the kid ready to hand him off to you. Take the kid and let her have a breather.
2. Forget about trying to accomplish something while the kids are awake. Just give them your full time. There will be time to get things done when they are asleep, or when you are at school. You will be less stressed at home this way, and feel less guilty. As Warren Zevon said "I'll sleep when I'm dead."
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Post by dacoachmo on Feb 20, 2007 7:50:01 GMT -6
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Post by calicoachh on Feb 20, 2007 15:19:26 GMT -6
four years ago, i had the cell phone on my hip at an away game, i told the head coach, "hey if you see me running off the field, it's go time. the DB coach knows how to call the defense too" Luckily, the little bugger waited until after films the next day.
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