Ok the reason i originally came back to this thread, before we got sidetracked on lavender man boobs and homeopathy,was to first read how everyones babies were doing and 2 ask if and how you guys find the time and energy to game with an infant. I am going to bed earlier than i did before we had him and getting up at the same time. He sleeps through the night and works is no crazier than normal but i am always exhausted. By the time i go to play games at night after he and the wife go to bed i barely make it 15 min before i fall asleap on the couch.
Only thing i can think of is that instead of lounging on the couch after work i spend my time playing with him when he is awake and straitening up the house when he naps.
Any advice is appreciated.
My overall gaming time has definitely dropped, but there's still time to do it. I made it all the way through Assassins Creed 4, but it took me a month to do it, playing an hour or two a day.
My wife works longer hours than I do, she leaves for work an hour before I do, and often doesnt get home until 1-2 hours later than me, so I generally cook dinner 75% of the time. Thankfully, my mother(who is a retired English teacher) comes to our home everyday to babysit, so we don't have to deal with daycare yet. A normal weekday looks like this:
morning:
6 am - wife gets up and starts getting ready for work
6-7am - somewhere in that range, the baby wakes up and needs to be fed, wife breastfeeds, takes 20-30 min
7:30am Wife leaves for work, I get my lazy ass out of bed
8am - grandma arrives for babysitting duty, I can get showered and ready for work, I leave at 8:30
evening:
5pm - I'm home from work and grandma goes home
5-6:30 - I play with the kid, start getting dinner ready(cooking with 1 arm while holding a baby is not easy, but I'm getting better at it)
6:30-7 - wife gets home, feeds the baby while I finish up dinner, then we eat around 7-7:30
7:30-8:30 bath time for baby, read a book to the baby, wind down for bedtime, kids usually asleep by 8:30ish, sometimes takes a tad longer.
Then basically from 9pm on it's total free time for us, do laundry, catch up on some TV shows, play some video games, have some sexy time(if we aren't too damn tired) etc.
My wife is usually in bed by 10-11, I usually stay up until midnight-1am, but to be totally honest there's also been days when we are asleep in bed 20 minutes after the kiddo.
I can't tell you how many times in the last 6 months I've grabbed a beer, fired up a movie, turned off the lights, and been asleep in my chair before I'm even 15 minutes into the movie or halfway through my beer. sometimes the tired just hits you like a sledgehammer out of nowhere once you actually sit down for a couple minutes.
And all of this is with a 7 month old that can't crawl or walk yet, I can't imagine how tired we are going to be once we are chasing him around the house constantly.
