New dadGarrett Hedlundis adjusting to sleepless nights.
“He is 3 weeks old,” Hedlund says at the time of the interview. “I know at a certain point the best thing to do is to let them cry themselves to sleep, but I can’t handle it. I’ll hold him quietly and awake all through the night.”
“I know that for us, as babies growing up, eventually you’re left to cry and sort that out. But I can’t handle it at this point,” he adds. “Which is a wonderful thing, but eventually I’m going to have to let him cry himself to sleep.”
McGraw — who played Hedlund’s father in 2004’sFriday Night Lightsand again costarred with him in 2010’sCountry Strong— recalls his fair share of sleepless nights with babies. McGraw, 53, shares three daughters — Gracie, 23, Maggie, 22, and Audrey, 19 — with wifeFaith Hill.
“Eventually, but it is still tough,” he tells Hedlund with a laugh. “It’s never easy and it’s never going to get easy. The way to fix that is to just throw a couple other kids in there; then you don’t think about it as much!”
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McGraw says that his first child, Gracie, would often end up in bed with him and Faith as they navigated nighttime routines.
“Here’s one of the things that we did that was really so beautiful for us,” he continues. “What we did is that we told everyone that for six weeks, we just didn’t want anybody to come. I mean, they could come say hi or something like that, but we wanted to spend that time with her. We rarely left the house. We stayed there with her.”
The singer says, as new parents at the time, they didn’t even use the nursery they built.
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“In your life as you move forward, you are always going to have a first word and a first step in everything you do. … Here is what you can want for your kids: You hope for the rest of their life that they will always have the opportunity to take a first step on a great adventure,” he says.
Responds Hedlund, “That’s beautiful. I’m always going to hang on to this [conversation].”
source: people.com
