My Reflections on a Year of Fatherhood (plus an announcement)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Today is my birthday, and I've been reflecting on the past year of my life. My son was born just over a year ago, and I've learned a tremendous amount about myself and life in general from the experience, which I'd like to share. (Also, stick around to the end, because... there's something kinda exciting to announce.)
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IT'S A BOY!!
oh no
a second heir, heads will be at risk of rolling now
Congratulations
Congrats @PravusGaming ! I wish you all the best. 💖
@@PravusGaming the Heir 2.0. I fear an assassination plot may be brewing in a few years. The challenge will be to identify the apprentice. My daughter is the clear apprentice and will wipe us all out at the appropriate time
CONGRATS! TWO KIDS?! AWESOME! But, if God's allowing another child, it might be seem as a blessing to some, Pravus. You'll be a amazing father, and I know it might not be much coming from some stranger, or just one of your viewers... But, God sends us messages and he's always here for us. He's here for you and your wife, and now your children as well.
Happy Parenthood, Pravus. You've helped many of us with laughs, pride, joy, and entertainment. So, as I already said: Thanks for the content, and Happy Parenthood. (On top of another Congratulations, because ya know what? Why not!)
- Enderimus
Your son is just a few months older than mine and I have to agree with you, it's the greatest thing I've ever done in my entire life. Happy Birthday!
The first day back from the hospital, our little guy slept in between us on our bed. We didn't sleep a wink. I was 23 and my wife was 21. He's now 25 in law school. He and his brother who's 23 are the best things I've ever done. It never gets old. The milestones continue no matter their age and I love it.
Happy Birthday, my leige.
Praise Pravus!
Praise the Heirs!
I’ve got two, 13 and 10. They have been life changing, and definitely for the better. As they’ve grown up, I’ve had some of the best experiences playing games with them, coaching their various sports teams, watching them perform music, it has 100% been worth it. The best piece of advice is to sacrifice your personal gratification to make their lives that much better. Spend time with them. Remember, they’ll be choosing your nursing home😂 Wonderful news that you’re expecting again! Two are always better than one! Enjoy everything you do, have done, and will continue to do for the channel. But like always, keep your family and your sanity first. Your cultists aren’t going anywhere.
Happy birthday and congratulations Pravus. From a father of two to a soon to be father of two, The second one second one is a 180⁰ from the first. My first born calm, nerdy, not into sports at all. His sister is a feral goblin monkey child, who loves cheerleading. You are and will continue to be a great dad.
Thank you for sharing. I'm 32 with 3 kids 1,3,5 and they are the center of my world. Almost brought a tear to my eye with your words.
Happy birthday Pravus🎉🎉🎉
You'll probably not know just how much this means to others, but i'm beyond happy that you shared it. My wife and i have lost 2 kids very early on in pregnancy and are currently sorting our options, but the latest loss occurred last Friday. I've always wanted to ba a father, so living a bit vicariously through you in this post. Love this and please keep doing awesome stuff. Love your vids.
I’m sorry for your losses , i hope and wish the best for you and your family .
I'm so very sorry for your loss. We had a similar experience, so I definitely understand. Took us five years to get to this point. I hope it's much faster for you!
@@PravusGaming I'm overjoyed for your success and thank you for your thoughts!
Oh wow that's such good news to hear! Congrats to you and your wife Pravus!!
Congratulations, my man. As a single dad of two kids, you are definitely in a wild ride.
Pravus seems like genuinely one of the best dads lol
Congratulations, Pravus!!!
I will have my first one planned 5 days later 🙌
I feel the same excitement as you do!
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Pravus!
Und Glückwunsch zum zweiten Erben.
Preiset Pravus.
Happy Birthday Pravus!!! God bless you and your family!!!
Congrats! I’m a new father as well my daughter just turned 4 months and I can 100% agree and support just about everything in this video.
What's wild about this is that way back when he first talked about his son, he and his wife were having trouble at having a kid at all, and now only a little over a year has pasted and they already have another one. The human body has a really weird way of doing things.
Awesome! This is really reassuring. It's rare to hear people talk about the up-side of parenting instead of just the costs and sacrifices. The information out there on the financial cost of raising kids is also all over the place and somewhat negative. Yet even tho i've seen articles saying it costs between $30k-$250k per year to raise a child, I also know a lot of people who come from big families with 4-7 kids and it makes me really wonder what the true cost of having/raising a child is.
Still, all that aside, i'm glad you shared that with us. It makes me feel a lot better about my relationship and my plans for the future! I'm glad to hear the c-section went smoothly. I hope that the next one also goes well!
Congratulation Pravus and Ainyaly, and many happy returns for your birthday Pravus.
I have enjoyed your content for a few years now and one reason is the down to earth and honest person you are in the videos. That honesty and truthfulness really shines forth in this video it makes me so happy to have subbed and followed you. I am an uncle to a niece and nephew, and through various family dynamics I was their father figure in helping them grow up from birth to a 26 year old nephew and an 18 year old niece, and all you said about the hard work and joys of having a child is so true even though I was not their 'father'.
I am really pleased for you in growing your dynasty and can feel how much of a great parent you are and will continue to be. xxx
Congrats Pravus. Since my son was also born around the same time as your kid, I recognize a lot of what you´re telling. Boy do you forget a lot. I wanted to add that the overwhelimg dad feels never happened to me (nor my wife). Just more like you kinda said, a feeling of ´i gotta take care of you now´ for both of us, but not an instant ´i´m a parent now´. So for anyone not having the instant feels, it´s just as normal. You are not a bad or worse parent for it.
congratulations man, my first son was born in may 2023. and i know exactly what you mean, i’ve never been happier.
i wish you the best of luck with the second one and the family..
I love hearing guys talk about their kids. I haven't really met many men irl who do and so it has definitely colored my ideas of marriage and parenthood. I've even contemplated just being a single mother (if I can ever get my act together). But hearing good guys talk about how much they love their kids... I just love to see it. Congratulations on baby #2 and good luck with the juggle. My sister had 5 and I was intimately involved from day one and I know how much of a struggle it can sometimes be.
Happy Birthday! and congratulations on a second bundle of joy. I have two boys myself, 24 and 18. They are a burden only if you look at it that way. I find more pleasure in their company than many of my old friends. I also taught them how to game and play video games, so we all Mom, Dad, and boys play together.
Congratulations Pravus on the new baby, the last 15 months and on your birthday. As a father of five children (last one is a sophomore in High School) I understand and concur with what you have said. Just wanted to say that you can teach your son sign language (simple stuff) and they can use it to communicate. It worked with my kids and helps reduce their frustration when they can tell you that they want 'more' of something to eat or a 'cookie' and not a 'banana' (or my personal favorite, when they sign "sorry" after farting). As to the new baby, you would be surprised how exited toddlers are about baby siblings.
Congratulations!! I've only ever cared for young cousins (infancy to early childhood) and there will be many curveballs to come, but I know from how ecstatic about being a dad you have been so far, baby number 2 will be a blast as well.
I'm one of those people who loves kids but doesn't plan on ever having kids of my own--definitely more of a respite carer for kids of family and friends. Still, I look forward to it!
We had 3 sons back to back. Yes it gets crazy but as you said the journey is amazing. All 3 now teenagers and I can say its a blast. I am sure you will when they are older but take advantage of coaching them in sports (even if you have no idea what your doing) just the fact of being in their lives is what they care about. My middle son who is 16 wants to be an aerospace engineer. He enrolled himself in an engineering magnet school and even at 16 has just excelled in life. Enjoy the journey, film them often (time flies and now its so crazy to watch them when they were younger on those videos, and just have fun. Congrats again!!
I have two boys, 14 and 10. They make life interesting, to say the least. But they are my world, and my life would be poorer without them. Congratulations, Pravus and Mrs. Pravus. You sound like you guys are doing alright. 😊
Happy Birthday and congratulations!! As a 39 year old and a father of 5 boys, enjoy all the time you have with all of your kids. It's something that creates memories and if you don't upload as much because you need to spend time with them, do it. You can never get back the time that you don't spend with them and it would be a shame to look back and say you regret not spending enough time with them. Enjoy the ride. 😂
Happy birthday dude!
Thanks for those honest words, i'm know those feelings beforehand being a parent, many doubts and questions. You just mildered them a little.
Congrats man, all the best for all of you. I have just left home for the first time to go to university, and I owe it all to my parents for being amazing and wonderful people. They’re not always perfect, it’s taken a lot to get them to accept me as trans. But they love me. My dad and I are going to hop online every weekend and play some videogames together, and I promise you that that experience between a father and child is so special, feeling important enough that your dad takes time out of his day just to sit down and play videogames with you. You’re an awesome dad Pravus, enjoy every second of it
My mom was the same way. I was an accident child so she was both excited but absolutely terrified as this was not remotely planned. Of course, I didn't make it easy: I was premature due to my heart rate tanking (so it was either C-section or lose me) and had to go to the ER at 8mo as I had a fever that could have killed me. She had absolutely no regrets though as I turned out a lot like her and got to teach her stuff too. Not to mention having 2 kids close in age made things sooooo much easier.
Edit: you touched on marriage well. Watching my mom, it is all compromise and not just pure bliss. Stuff will happen, you will bicker but what matters is how it is handled together. Just because you love a person doesn't mean it will be sunshine and rainbows.
Congrats and happy birthday. we're expecting our first kid this November so I appreciated you sharing your take on fatherhood cause I have no clue what to expect
Happy birthday!
Congrats on making it a year with the heir!
Congrats on the 2nd!
Hope you can get some good sleep! I can see you're tired. You got this, though! You're a great dad, as I'm sure Ainyali would agree.
Happy birthday, my liege.
All Hail The New Heir.
Praise Pravus!!
Praise The Heirs!!
Congratulations!!!
As a father of twins (now grown), I understand a lot you have spoken about.
Enjoy, good luck, and God Bless all 4 of you!!
Praise God, an heir and a spare!!! (but truly, congrats to you and your wife. This is great to see TH-camrs whom I've followed for years adopt the joyous responsibility of children)
Happy birthday and congratulations! Can't believe I've started watching you back when you did all those Plague Inc videos and now almost a decade later we've come so far and you're gonna be a dad for the SECOND time now! Makes me happy and kind of sad at the same time cuz time sure flies by very fast and you only realize it way later on, so make sure to cherish all possible moments with both of the kids and I'll be praying for a safe delivery with no issues or complications! Can't wait to hear more updates from you!
Amazing to hear your getting along well with you little one, and that you recommend the experience. Does remind me a little of the stories ny mom tells of ny older brother. With less instances of cousin's or aunts or husbands dropping the baby, having it roll off the bed, or getting its head stuck in the stairs or a half dozen other assorted head and face injuries.
Happy birthday and thanks for pushing through with content creation even when you have family to care for.
Two things:
First of all, Happy Birthday Pravus!
And Second, i've never emitted a "YOOOOOO" loud enough upon hearing about numero dos on the way. I sincerely hope everything works out for the best
My daughter was a planned c-section, conveniently scheduled. The birth resembeled a clown pulling an endless line of handkerchiefs, or the intro to spaceballs. they just kept pulling what seemed like an endless baby.
My son was supposed to be a natural birth, but halfway through labor decided to turn around. So it was an emergency c-section. In the surgical room it looked more like a bunch of doctors and nurses trying to pull a root out, or involved in a tug of war. It took 2 doctors a nurse and the anesthesiologist all pulling on this foot that's sticking ot of my wife's stomach pulling like crazy. It took over a minute of pulling to get him out, and then they had to keep an eye on him because of the time it took to get him out.
Happy birthday and congratulations! We'll be here for you if you need us. Stay safe man!
Thank you Pravus, not sure i'll have a kid but I will sure treasure my parents even more.
Happy Birthday, Pravus! Wishing you and the family wealth and happiness and a beautiful, safe birth in February!
Just an fyi, you NEVER actually get the same sleep ever again. Mine are over 20 and they still bust in my room and wake me up... yeah I don't know what sleep I use to get before kids, it's a long forgotten memory lol. And congrats on the 2nd coming of Pravus Jr. #2!!!
I think I'm going to show my brother this. He's got a baby on the way himself and I think it'd be good for him to have something to ground him and tell him a general idea of how it's going to be.
Praise Pravus.
Man, my daughter is 10 months old. She's our world. We're planning on a second child, but we're so nervous about taking care of our daughter at the same time as a newborn. Good luck man!
Happy birthday and congratulations to you and Mrs. Pravus! Your dynasty has just been doubled!
Happy Birthday, my Lord.
THREE CHEERS FOR THE HIERS!
THREE CHEERS FOR THE PARENTS!
GOD BLESS THEN ALL!
Happy birthday and congrats for the baby!! As a parent of two girls now fully entering their teen years, I share exactly your thoughts. What I can say is that that time for yourself and your wife will come again. As everything in parenthood... just have patience. One thing you will notice is that the second one will be much much easier to handle since we already know what to expect 99% of the time.
Called it from the title, you made number 2.
Also congrats on your own bday.
Let me tell you something fun about the second kid.
they find a way to do everything different than the first one did.
have fun finding out what the baby means all over again.
The moment I saw the video title I had a hunch what the announcement was going to be. Congratulations Pravus and Happy Lvl-up day 🤗🎂🥂
The fact that this isn't written down or scripted is incredible, you definitely should make another channel just to give life advice, I could listen to you for hours honestly.
Hear so much of my.own experiences in this video. My little girl is 1 today. I remember saying to my father in law "I'm nervous I won't know what to do" his response... "None of us did" I don't know why but that made me feel so much better. The other thing was everyone says "breast is best" and there's a lot of presures on new Mums regarding this, however someone finally just said to us "No, not breast is best, fed is best" this made my wife feel much better about having to give up breastfeeding
Happy belated birthday Pravus. My sons are a blessing, difficult at first, more challenging later but eventually, totally worth it. I'm going to be a grandad in 6 months so it'll start all over again! at least this time I can give it back (Don't know the sex yet). best experience ever. Love your dialogue on games but wold like you to visit Survival: Fountain of youth.
The time I have appreciated most after my kids were born was about 18 months in when they finally decided that they didn't want to eat everything they came across anymore. When that happens you start to enjoy the presence of your kid without the constant need to take everything away.
Congrats on your second too. Having our second daughter after our first (about 2 years apart) has been a blessing for us. My oldest enjoyed watching over her as a baby like a doll and as they have gotten older I have seen them grow extremely close just like Bluey and Bingo in the Bluey tv show. Hopefully that will be the case for yours as well after the baby and toddler stages fly by.
HAVE A HAPPY LATER BIRTHDAY! To which you probably already did. i miss those firsts.
Happy Birthday and congrats on the great achievements and progress you have made personally and as a family. 14 month old here myself and it is an amazing experience you just can not truly describe.
I just broke up with my long term partner. Heartbroken. Many reasons but partly because we wanted different things - I didn't want kids, she did. It was the right decision to end things.
I don't know if I'll ever want kids. Maybe, maybe not. But Pravus, your video was beautiful and candid and honest and helped me understand that it's okay to feel all the things you felt and I still feel. Maybe in future, with the right partner, I'll want kids. Maybe I'll be better off not. But thank you for helping us understand. Good luck, you'll have awesome kids. 🤜
Congratulations on #2. We will be rooting for a talented and ambitious daughter to join The Heir
And yep, everything you said about being a dad is true
Oh man its been a year already. time flies. Congrats Pravus! Happy BDAY
Haha - Pravus, you and your wife are good people. I am happy for you. I have 4 kids...you all are doing fine.
Happy birthday, you’ll make a great father, it will be hard but you got it man🎉
YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So happy for you man!
God Bless you and your wife and your two sons and may He give you peace and health for I see that happiness you already got.🤩
@pravus as a father of 5 I concur with everything you said. CONGRATULATIONS!!
So, something that I think would help take Provus' mind off of his wife's health (assuming his worries are just paranoia) would be putting up another Minecraft series. I'm thinking that it could be a showcase of the MineColonies mod, which will turn the game into a bit of a city builder seen from a first-person perspective as the player is turned into the lord/mayor. There are elements like having to research buildings at a university before you can order your NPC builder to construct them, needing a hospital to treat disease outbreaks like the flu or measles, and setting up resource harvesters like miners, foresters, and farmers to gather stuff you might need, refiners to process those resources, couriers to come to collect, store, and deliver those resources where needed, and a lot more I'm probably not able to think of right now. Especially, playing the "All the Mods 9" mod pack will allow this and the projectE mod, which is a modern and rebalanced version of the Equivalent Exchange mod that was the main source of resources in Tekkit season 1, and the Thermal Series mod, which is the ore duplication mod from season 2. As for non-minable resources like leather, I'd suggest getting into Ars Nouveau, a magic mod in the pack, and setting up a dribny, a tiny little humanoid guy with deer antlers on his head, in an automated farm for those things, but be warned, automated response generation is a pretty advanced thing in the mod, and you'll need a LOT of gold to craft the manufacturing tools and wireless energy relays the mod relies on.
Also, I'd get ready for getting the son he's got into anger management classes. If the kiddo's size is an indication, he might have Jacob's syndrome, where basically he was born with two copies of Provus' Y chromosome, and one symptom is mild gigantism, and another is massively reduced emotional control, and it's the latter factor that I'd be worried about as the kid grows, like what happens when his parents try to discipline him short of having the cops arrest him, and how can they be sure that he's not going to get into trouble by getting into other fights with other kids in school?
I was born as an emergency c-section, so my mother was out because I tried to strangle myself with my embilical cord. 😅
Happy Birthday! ❤
Happy birthday! Father of a 15 year old. The best days are on the horizon. Shake in your boots, my friend. 😊
My daughter is 9 and there are times that we get into"fights" and other times I can't stand be away from her.
And there is no handbook for raising a child/children. You will do everything on the fly.
And you will go into child time. If it normally take 5 minutes, now take 15 minutes and you are okey with it.
Pravus as a father of 2 under 2 you got this! Ever in the new Jersey area would love to buy you a beer
Wife had exact same situation happen, induction, then c section and the insanity of emotions, formula, wife became stay at home, this feels like a word for word description of our life right now (currently on month 5)
Happy B-Day Pravus! Grats for you four now! Thanks for the reflections, it was really nice!
Congrats to the whole family :) take things a day at a time and keep making those special memories together (and try to make sure the heirs don't go all "Crusader Kings" on one another :P )
I have recently stumbled on a video discussing The Giving Tree and the implication of that story. The good, the bad but also one of the central themes the youtuber considered important to the story. And that was that unconditionally giving CAN be fulfilling and bring happiness. It should not be the goal to run yourself ragged to give everything but the act of giving itself can be/is fulfilling.
Valentine baby looking forward to see if youre getting a valentine's baby! Congrats!
Happy Bday Pravus! Hope everything works well with the little man!
Happy Birthday and hope you and your family have a warm and happy future ahead of you all.
Your individual life ends when your child is born. It's definitely a magical moment...
Finally! Someone who is saying how it is. Thank you for this! I can't stand the mega positive insta parenthood. This is exactly how it is. Yes it is a mayor sacrifice BUT totally worth it!!! Live my kids.
Congratulations! Mind you, the say the second one is easier. And that my youtube friend, is (mostly) true. It is not easy, it's easier.
Thank you for sharing!
My first for many months, almost a year, slept from 7pm to 9am every day. She lulled us into a false sense of security, and me and my wife then got pregnant again. Now that we have two, well... Good luck. It's interesting how much is the same and how much is so very different. The first cautious and conservative and not even walking until 2 (did bum shuffling into knee-walking), the second, climbing bookcases at age 1. The first, talking and telling me what ahe ia doing at all times, the second, when its silent i need to go searching because who knows what he could be doing.
Fatherhood can be many things
I certainly know raising my youngest son was very different than how my father approached raising me and my brother.
Partly, that’s personality, partly circumstances.
And that’s just how it is.
Good luck on your journey and congratulations to you and the missus
congratulations pravus and Ainyali (how do I spell that I am really sorry) and happy birthday to you Pravus
Also, we would love to hear Ainyali's experiences as well if possible💜💜
Even though as a kid i always wanted to be a father myself.. nowadays i dont think i'll EVER get a kid because of where this sh-tty and cr-ppy world is headed to.. it might change but atm its a *VERY* slight chance i'll get a kid also congratulations on the 2nd baby
Congrats Pravus! I had my 2 kids exactly same time frame and it’s not as bad as you think you’ll enjoy every second and now my youngest starts school this year. Good luck to you man and praise Pravus and the heirs!
Man so much of what you said resonated with me. I had my little girl in 2018 followed by a boy in 2020. My wife and I are both gamers and before kids the routine would be - come home in the evening from work, fire up the computers, one would begrudgingly make dinner and then we would play WOW all evening until 11 at night. Though we had loads of game time we both felt something was missing in our lives. Once my little girl was born, gaming went out the window, we were both exhausted from lack of sleep, we made our lives harder than we should have with little mistakes but you are learning as first time parents. Once we had two kids there was even less time for games and we saw Shadowlands come and go as well as Dragonflight however that feeling of something was missing in our lives was completely gone. It was as if life was nudging us to take the next step in our lives and its been a blessing ever since. Our gaming now involves sitting in the living room together playing Mario Kart or Luigi's mansion on the Switch with the kids. Kids are hard but like most things that are hard its worth it and feels rewarding. Enjoy your son. They grow up very fast and soon you will find yourself looking back at videos on your phone of when they were toddlers or Threenagers and missing those stages.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
🎂🎁🍾💐🌈💝💝💝
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Cesary Section - I´m an anaesthesiologist and have been with a lot of them. That magic moment, seeing the look in the parents eyes, always brings tears to my eyes.
And MAZEL TOV!!!!
All these experiences are really nice to hear! I'm not a father, and I'm apprehensive about becoming one. But hearing first hand what some of the experiences are, and that we'll be ok, is very comforting.
All the best to you and your family.
Happy bday man!! Hope everything has been going well for you and your family dude!
Happy Birthday and best wishes to you and your family.
Happy birthday and congratulations my guy! Father of 4 so I know where your heads at 👍🏻
AN HEIR IS ON HIS/HER WAY! Congratulations Pravus! My daughter is 1 year old now and i completely agree, the best thing to ever happen, and now you get to experience it twice as much! Happy birthday!
Congratulations to you and your expanding family.
what a lovely insight into your life with the newborn, soon to be newborn(s)
But for you Pravus, a well-wished happy birhtday to you.! good health to your newborns, and to your wife and yourself
Happy Birthday Pravus! also happy one year being a parent!
Congratulations!
Happy birthday!
The order was intentional, as we subvert our own to the future generation.
My first born was autistic and I can definitely feel the pain with the first 6 weeks, my son is going on 9 years and he has 2 sisters and now i can't imagine my life without them in my life. It's just a blessing
Happy Birthday.
My son was the same but 10 days early, the whole dangerous blood pressure thing, induce for a couple of days then c section.
They told me he might have problems. So I retired to stay home with him. Shut down my 30 year old multi national consultancy. He was fine, no health issues, Thanks be to God.
Happy Birthday and congratulations to both of you!!
Two is better than one - you'll love watching them grow together as well as individuals. Many blessings on you all! 😊
Being a dad is the best part of my life, honestly I always would recommend of having a kid. Also make sure you are fully ready or as much as possible. I love just being a dad.
Happy birthday!
Thanks for these insights and the great gaming content.