As a New father, wouldn’t you enjoy spending precious bonding time with your new born child. It is recently common for fathers to take parental leave off work for this amazing experience. Women will always retain a profound bond with new borns. For Fathers, being at home, there are not enough words to describe you experience the first smiles, the first sit ups, the first roll overs, the first crawls and amazingly the first steps.
That sресіаl bonding usually takes place when you are around all the time. Speaking from personal experience, having the opportunity to have taken parental leave, on 3 occasions, for each one of our children, off of work to join my best friend in life to experience the first times, not to mentioned my favorites, the facial expressions.
Imagined just arrived at home tired, after being stuck in traffic for an hour, working a 14 hour day, the diaper trash is full, the baby has not eaten dinner (milk), nor has your wife. Taking parental leave, would alleviate all external stress and would allow you and your wife to focus on the baby.
The father bond is different than a mother bond, nevertheless, important. It is now more common practice for both parents to share parental leave. In the future, as the children are growing up, wouldn’t you love to hear “Dad” as much as “Mom, or the children would run to the dad as much as mom for any circumstance. Parental leave would increase this bond.
Becoming a parent for the first, shared assistance between both parents re-leaves the stress and two heads think more efficient than one. Once the father becomes the primary caregiver of a new born baby, you are caring for a new baby in the morning, in the afternoon, at night, at dawn, all the time, and the best part is you are willing to do it, and do not want anything in return.
While the financial burden may not allow for paternity leave as an option, and experience hesitation from co-workers and family members, the benefit of being there, at the time the new baby cries, sleeps tranquil and plays with you, showing you a breathtaking smile and numerous facial expressions, are priceless. No words can describe this feeling until you are there as I chose, to be there. I am very content with our decision for myself to take parental leave from work, they are permanent imprinted memories that will last a life time.
Put yourself in our situation, having the financial capabilities, and means to allow you to take paternal leave from work, what would you do?