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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 4527004" data-attributes="member: 13703">Father of a 13-month-old girl here.  My wife is a non-gamer so the pregnancy itself had a relatively small impact on the game.  I am the DM of our group so the game went on hiatus after the baby was born.  I had about 2-3 months off before we started playing again.  I had the group around to "meet" my daughter and play some board games in this time but that was about it.We play at my house so when we started again there wasn't any need to move the game.  We only play once a fortnight so that also made getting back into gaming a bit easier.  I don't think the wife would have been so keen if it was once a week.As a newborn my daughter slept quite a bit so looking after her at the table wasn't an issue.  We weren't overly quiet when we played but she seemed to sleep through it all anyway.  Personally I wanted my daughter to get used to sleeping with a bit of noise going on, otherwise it would be impossible to get her to sleep when we were out anywhere.Now that she is 13-months-old it is a bit more difficult.  She likes hanging around the table when we play and is always trying to grab my books off my side table.  Overall it's still fairly easy.  It would be a bit more difficult if my wife also played in the game or if the game was at another player's house but I think it is still do-able.As for the breastfeeding issue, I don't think it is a big deal.  My wife was quite self-conscious about it when she first started feeding and would try and be as discreet as possible.  Sometimes it's not always that easy though as babies don't always want to cooperate.  If someone can't control their hormones enough to be polite and not stare I think they have bigger issues than what can be dealt with in this thread.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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