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She Won't Break!
New Dads With Newborn Fears
By Jenn Director Knudsen
Many new dads, like Goldberg, are handling a baby for the first time, so they have no experience to fall back on. "I've never had to care for a baby before, so even things like diapers and baths were pretty new to me," says Goldberg. "Not that any of those things are that hard."
Even Aaron Coe, a new father in Bellevue, Wash., had fears of his own, despite having observed plenty of fathers on the job. "My confidence comes from having seen many others around me cope with the challenges, and we always had a steady channel of books and Internet-based information to help with the academic side of newborn life," says Coe, who was caught off guard when his daughter, Eliana, came nearly three weeks early.
"Oddly, I fear my own mortality much more," says Coe, referring both to wanting to be around for every one of Eliana's life stages, as well as to his assumed role as his child's bank. "I think it is partially due to the notion of fiscal preparedness for her future."
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