Satisfaction...

 



Multiple studies point to a consistent association between having children and a significant decline in marital satisfaction, particularly for wives.

You and your partner are planning for the arrival of your child, and your emotions run high with some mix of excitement and anxiety.    You conspire happily about your future and dream about what your baby will be like and how you will create and enjoy an expanded sense of family that includes your child.

Now as a new parent, your life has been thrown into a blender. You are suddenly knocked down to the very bottom of the basic survival levels of functioning.

Because human babies are born completely helpless and defenseless your daily life refocuses entirely on the most basic needs vital to physiological survival and safety.

Any previous routine you may have had is gone, and day blends into night. You are bleary eyed and chronically exhausted, a slave to the feeding and sleeping schedule of your baby. Your focus and energy are intensely centered on your new child, and you are both expending massive amounts of energy to attend to the constant and often unclear needs of your baby.

It is not easy.  Just a thought.