What’s The Most Memorable Moment Of A Dad’s Life

The moment we all became dads or learned we would in 9 months time become a dad is the easy answer but the way you guys answered this question, with detail, with obvious emotion still thrilled us. Here are some of the most memorable moments in the life of dad.

Gary Myers: When my wife had her C-section, and my daughter was crying and crying. I said her name and she stopped looked right at me and let the nurse clean her up. I knew right then I was wrapped around her little finger.

Robert Webb: Watching my daughter pop out of my then girlfriend. She was so bloody and slippery. She shot out quick, like a wet bar of soap.The nurses and midwives literally dropped her off the table. Thankfully they caught her before she hit the ground.

Kevin Baker: The moment I found out I was going to be a dad of precious little boy and now he’s a year and it’s still just like the very first day I held him in the hospital room after her c-section those two are the best memorable moments.

Ryan Graves: Both days my two daughters were born and when my wife and I said I do.

Throwing a no hitter in high school is up there too.

Michael Valles: I was sitting in the living-room and my 10 y/o daughter text me from the bathroom stating she needed a “pad.” Although I knew she hit this puberty stage, I was still shocked and sad. My baby girl is growing up.

Will Williams: Stepping into kids life whom I love unconditionally as if I helped birth them knowing the facts that it isn’t always about blood that makes a father but the relationship you build with them that does.

Mac McIntosh: Being at bootcamp graduation. Marching to my divisions spot looking in the crowd for them. Then we get in our spot the other divisions do and the music stops. I’m facing away from the crowd and I hear it. My son whose 2nd bday I missed crying. Dad instincts kicked in hard after not seeing him for 2 months and I damn near broke formation to go get him. Then it’s all over I’m shaking my chiefs hand and I feel a tap on my shoulder. There’s my now ex wife my grandma my son and my daughter. Now it’s been 6 months besides that day since I’ve seen them but ill be home soon with full custody. Hooyah.

Christopher Gomez: When my son first said “da da”. Now, I’m not the type cry at all, it’s very rare for me, but that made my heart drop and tear up so much.

Michael Beatty: When at the time 14 month old son’s EEG came back normal and we realized he would be seizure free.

Derek Heydn: Having my grandmother cut the umbilical cord of my last born. She passed 2 years later. To have her as part of that day was such a blessing.

Shawn Long: The days that the my two foster children legally became my children. Although, in my soul they always were my children.

Dustin Duncan: So far other then my girl being born, watching her stand on her own and her reaction to it.

Nick Suszycki: Seeing my son for the first time and freaking the hell out. Nobody told me they come out purple and with a conehead.

Ben Mayers-Davies: Nailing 27 slices in a Pizza Hut lunch buffet, and then not going back to work for the afternoon.

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