{"id":166,"date":"2020-07-12T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T06:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2020-07-12T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T06:47:40","slug":"to-the-dads-who-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/to-the-dads-who-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Dads who show up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the Dads who show up<br \/>\nI see you<br \/>\nI see you holding your wife\u2019s hands<br \/>\nThrough the whole ordeal of pregnancy<br \/>\nI see you comforting her after another round of vomiting<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nI see you choking back tears,<br \/>\nWatching your little one arrive<br \/>\nI see you do the 2 am feed<br \/>\nAnd the 4am rocking<br \/>\nI see you do the non-stop pacing<br \/>\nI see you sad, when you have to leave for the day,<br \/>\nWanting to spend just another five minutes with your baby<br \/>\nI see you come home exhausted, and take over from your wife, because you want to do this equally<br \/>\nI see you changing the narrative,<br \/>\nOf how fathers \u2018should\u2019 be<br \/>\nI see you taking over in the mornings<br \/>\nSo that Mamma can get some sleep<br \/>\nI see you babbling during bath time<br \/>\nAnd singing during diaper changes<br \/>\nI see you gently dancing,<br \/>\nWith your little one, to music<br \/>\nI see you teaching your little one how to walk<br \/>\nI see you waiting for them to talk<br \/>\nI see your face fall, when baby wants only Mamma yet again<br \/>\nI see you kiss their fears away,<br \/>\nAnd keep your own at bay<br \/>\nI see you anxious, working hard to provide<br \/>\nI see you toiling day and night<br \/>\nI see you excited on that first step,<br \/>\nAnd I see you missing milestones, because you had to be away<br \/>\nI see you be their safe haven,<br \/>\nI see you share your fears, however unwillingly<br \/>\nI see your need to Protect your Family<br \/>\nI see you do your best to understand<br \/>\nThe myriad of emotions<br \/>\nAnd complexities of Parenthood<br \/>\nI see you be your Wife\u2019s cheerleader ,<br \/>\nWhen she thinks she is failing at this yet again<br \/>\nI see you respect her position,<br \/>\nI see you accept her decisions<br \/>\nI see you cuddling your little one<br \/>\nAnd teaching her to say Papa,<br \/>\nWhen Mamma isn\u2019t looking<br \/>\nI see you laugh because baby looks more like you than her<br \/>\nI see you excited about school<br \/>\nA chance for you to relive those days again<br \/>\nI see you joyous, and I see you curious<br \/>\nI see you strong and I see you vulnerable<br \/>\nI see you be exactly how a<br \/>\nFather should be<br \/>\nTo the Dads who show up<br \/>\nI see you<br \/>\nThank You<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Dads who show up I see you I see you holding your wife\u2019s hands Through the whole ordeal of pregnancy I see you comforting her after another round of vomiting I see you choking back tears, Watching your little one arrive I see you do the 2 am feed And the 4am rocking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[503,504],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-06 03:50:53","action":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momuninterrupted.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}