No one night time noises all night long they gurgle they pant they keep daddy awake

This is Max Locato One night I was on baby duty and Jenna's breathing slowed.

I leaned my ear onto her mouth to see if she was alive and when she burbled and panted, did I. That's when a tsunami of sobriety washed over me. We're in

charge of a human being. I don't care how tough you are. You may be a Navy SEAL who skydives behind enemy lines.

Doesn't matter.

Moms have 36 weeks of reminders elbowing around inside them.

Dad's, our kick comes in the gut later,

but it does come.

And for me, it came some years ago

in the midnight quiet of an apartment living room as I held a human

being in my arms.