I was sleeping soundly, as I always do, but suddenly I had a sharp pain in my arm. I dreamed that someone was smashing my right arm with a hammer, but I awoke to hear my wife say, 'He's awake again, and I'm too tired. You rock him.' So I got up and rocked and rocked. Rocking Steven to sleep, while trying to stay awake myself, wasn t easy. I was then that I realized that a baby completely changes your life.

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