Fathers' minds and their children

[cervantesscthree]

A friend of mine has recently become a father (not out of want but a more of a: surprise I'm pregnant situation) and I began to think about how mens' minds and bodies change once they realise they're going to become fathers.

In my own experience, during the few times I have thought a girl I was seeing was pregnant, the changes I noticed in myself during that period before I found out she wasn't was an increase in stress (obviously), anxiousness, and I also started to become slightly more protective of her and even a bit paranoid of her activities. This wasn't to a large extent - I still kept my game-tight - but seeing as I'm not a father, I want to know if there are general, shared experiences that fathers on the forum found themselves going through: once they realised they were going to be dads, during the pregnancy and after the birth.

Also, I couldn't find much information, if anything, on how a man's mind changes during the the mother's pregnancy but I found some on how it changes when the child is born, the links are here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brains-of-our-fathers/
http://www.slate.com/articles/healt..._examiner/2007/06/stretch_marks_for_dads.html
(Beware, these links have beta content but this was the best I could find. There's such a lack of info in this area that it's almost upsetting.)

 

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There's an article here you might be interested in.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/fathers-of-girls-more-conservative/

They say both men and women tend to drop their past sh!tlibbery feelz based ideologies/indoctrination when they become a family with children. It's definitely been true with everyone I've grown up with and observed who had children. Obviously not the single mothers but rather mother/father couplings without a doubt.

One fella in particular who was my wing was quite logical and grounded in reality but still would on occasion blurt out leftist TV buzzwords. He now has 3 kids and actually scored more politically conservative than me without any real red pill awareness last year in one of those online tests.

 

[cervantesscthree]

I read the article and that was interesting stuff, but what about less political stuff and more about how fathers change? So Suave is the only place where I think I can get a few answers.