RE: Hours, days, weeks, years.
The daughter of the dear couple who we went through so much with? Whose little one also had a hole in her little heart? She passed away .
This reminds me of my wife while in pain and worry having a conversation with another mother in the parent's room at the hospital. She had asked about our daughter and after my wife explained and then asked in return, she said that they had been there 3 months already and their child wasn't going to make it. She had barely even held him. :(
Life can be better. Life can be worse.
In the final analysis, we believe our children have deepened our lives. And given us our experience to be of help to others, who may be called upon to go through what we did.
While I don't recommend parenthood for everyone, I think every parent is at the very least, changed by the experience.
Perhaps bringing a little one of her own someday to visit "Grandad!"
I hope not too soon. :D
Nope "Dad" ...
... not too soon, although you'll learn soon enough @tarazkp, about how well your child listens to your advice versus that of others. And how then what, in her free will decision-making, she chooses to do (in response to the "siren song" of the big, wide world out there telling her far too often her Dad is an 'idiot," do this instead ) ...
Happy parenting! 😉
P.S. When she has a 0 in front of all of your time increments ...