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Congratulations!

I don't have a lot of experience with this, since my son is only 2 weeks old today. But, for what it's worth, I was out of practice for one week, which includes the night my wife labored. I probably would have taken off a second week, but we had family in town to help, and so it wasn't necessary. I'm planning to continue to go to practice twice a week, but I have a generous parental leave policy at work and so I am not working on the weekday I go to evening practice. If it weren't for that, I would probably be going just once a week, on a weekend. The issue for me isn't the 3 hours of time -- it is the fact that my wife wouldn't get any breaks all day, then all evening, and then I am so tired after I get home from practice that it is hard for me to wake up before my wife when baby needs something in the middle of the night. I am hoping that we will settle into a rhythm by the time my leave runs out and I have to start working full-time again.