Carolyn Robertson
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Three weeks into fatherhood, Ryan Reynolds isn't shy about rolling up his sleeves and diving into daddy duty.
Speaking to the media for the first time since he and his wife Blake Lively welcomed their baby girl in late December, the Green Lantern star joked, “I gotta jump in and do all those sorts of things. I mean, I’ve even tried breastfeeding.”
So... how'd that go? About as you'd expect.
“It’s frustrating for the baby and frankly disturbing for me," Ryan tells PEOPLE. "Not well is the answer.”
On a slightly more serious note, the former holder of the Sexiest Man Alive title managed to sum up parenthood pretty perfectly in just a few words.
“It’s amazing that you can be that exhausted and that happy at the same time,” he explained.
Yes, I think he pretty much nailed it. That very apt description seems to be just about universal. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes on motherhood, by one of my favorite famous moms, Tina Fey: "Being a mom has made me so happy. And so tired."
Tired and happy. Exhausted and overjoyed. I can't help but think of all those times I've been called to my daughters rooms in the middle of the night, dragged out of sleep to find a lost lovey or reassure them after a bad dream. All I want to do is crawl back under the covers, but then there's that tiny part of me that loves sitting with them in the dark, all warm and sleepy.
Kids, right? It's a good thing we love them so much.
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