The bond between a mother and her child is one of the strongest we know. But little do many know, the bond between the father and the child is just as important. As a baby, we identify our families by their individual scents, we are calmed by their heartbeats, and we learn the feel and pattern of their skin through skin-to-skin contact. Skin-to-skin contact is important for fathers as well as it is mothers. Babies have a very refined memory so they could easily forget someone they dong see as often. See, my boyfriend rarely gets to see his one-year-old baby sister so every time he visits her she looks at him like she's never seen him before. The point I'm getting at here is that if a baby isn't around someone frequently, they forget who they are and end up not forming as strong of a bond. .
If a father is working 10 hours a day, six days a week, going home exhausted, "I'll just take a little nap ", ends up sleeping until his alarm the next morning, the baby won't exactly recognize him and it could be heartbreaking to the father that his own baby doesn't know him like they know their mother. The father could think it's his fault and be depressed and start going through a midlife crisis years too soon. Of course, as the baby gets older they'd recognize that this man coming home to him/her every day is ˜Daddy' but you want to form bonds early on to ensure to the baby that you were present.
One Never Gets That Time Back.
A child is a precious creature with expendable laughable, lovable, and worthy moments. Anyone around a baby is almost always smiling, the little babbles, bright eyes, wide, toothless smiles; nobody wants to miss that. It wouldn't be fair to the father of the baby if they aren't around for their silly moments, or to kiss their bowbows (little injuries). There's nothing more a good father wants than to be there baby. He wants to kiss their tears away, giggle until the sun goes down over the tiniest thing that sends them into hysterics.