Fatherhood is really more than just the beef injection and waiting for the jiffy pop to 'pop'. In fact, the fatherhood role really doesn't engage until the kid is ~6 years old. We, as fathers, need to discuss this in depth...I think one day concerning the distortion of your partner and her vagina is enough...if you're man enough you will expand to fill any new void.

After some thought, invading your wife's nether regions has absoulely nothing to do with fatherhood. If you are still there 7 years afterwards this is where fatherhood begins.

I'll respectfully disagree that fatherhood begins 7 years later. You can not discount your kids ability to understand the relationship between mother and father very early on. This would be a terrible precedent to set for younger guys preparing for being a "Dad". You could devote a whole week to living with and trying to understand your prego wife. But the outline above sounds more like "holy crap were gonna have a kid?" - "holy crap that's a baby in my arms!". More along the lines of Husbandry than Fatherhood.

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