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So this is my first dad related post on here and feel a bit new to this lol. I'm the father of a beautiful 10 month old girl, I'm also a first time dad. Well the wife and I have been struggling with her to set up a routine and to have her go to bed at a decent hour...(means extra time for me on destiny too lol, don't tell the wife :/). Well I was curious on what the other dads have done, what worked well and what didn't? I know fatherhood is kinda like a trial and error type thing but having the occasional cheese isn't always a bad thing :).
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First off, congratulations! You'll hear this a thousand times, but I can't stress enough for you to enjoy these first few years. Any trials that you think you're going through are nothing compared to the mouth/expenses/attitude you're going to run into when they hit the teens! Anyway, I've got twins and what worked for one doesn't necessarily work for the other. What worked on my little girl was to wrap her (bind her, really) in this straight jacket thing called a swaddle. My little boy would go ballistic if we put him in it, though. Classical music with some Widespread Panic and Led Zeppelin thrown in seemed to work, too. Like the other dads have said, routine is big, so experiment until you find something that works well and try to stick to it, even if they fuss about it. They'll eventually get settled in and you can get back to more Destiny or making more babies, lol.