When we got home from the hospital, I had a phone message from the executive producer of my film. Finally when I did call him a few days later, he was annoyed not to have heard from me. I explained that we had just gotten home with the baby and were still adjusting. He didn't even congratulate me and just launched into his business questions. I guess having a baby was not an acceptable excuse to put off business matters.
Every decision has to be just right.
As William Goldman has observed, every single person working on a movie has to do his or her best every single day for the movie to even have a chance of succeeding. As a producer you need to bring to bear your best decision-making all the time. And, what's even harder, you have that pressure and there's no objective standard for what you're doing. No one is counting up your widgets at the end of the day and telling you if you're ahead or behind schedule. You have only your gut instincts to tell you if you're doing a good job.