Congrats, Papa! You’ve had your first baby, now it’s time to figure out how to take the family on vacation. Well, there’s no way to sugarcoat this: Traveling with an infant is a pain in the ass. The first time…
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Build-A-Baby Workshop
Gregor Mendel would be proud. Then again, so might Hitler. Remember the fun we all had when scientists tried to create the perfect human by culling DNA from six donors, but ended up with an unintended side effect? Hilarity ensued:…
…And Baby Makes MP3
Attention, dads-to-be! If you don’t have the book The Expectant Father (you should) or haven’t gotten to the chapter on getting ready for the birth, you probably don’t know that one of the things stressed is that mommy might not…
A Dad’s Perspective on Miscarriages
I’m grateful we didn’t experience a miscarriage and I feel for all those that weren’t so lucky. The part of me that wants to be logical and believe it’s nature at work rejecting an unhealthy fetus is at odds with…
Tagged with: expectant father, expecting, miscarriage, onegooddad blog, pregnant wife
Posted in Outside Help
Posted in Outside Help
Birth Day for …and daddy
I’m officially going live with this thing today, which means if traffic increases beyond the dozen or so souls who’ve grazed through my ‘soft’ opening, some explanation might be in order. I’m the father of a toddler who spent the…
Tagged with: baby, expectant father, expecting, fatherhood, new dad, new father, newborn, pregnant wife, stay at home dad
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
It’s a Boy? A Girl? Why I Wanted to Know Early
A couple of weeks ago, I was congratulating a friend on the news that he and his wife were expecting their first kid. This was done, of course, via text messaging since (1) I hate talking on the phone, (2)…
Tagged with: baby, baby names, birth, gender, new dad, new father, newborn, parenting advice, ultrasound
Posted in Baby Prep
Posted in Baby Prep
Gridiron Parenting
I’m doing fantasy football for the first time this year, mostly because I realize I don’t follow football closely enough to keep up with machismo-laden fall conversations and figure this is the best way for me to have some idea…
The VTech Sit-to-Stand Learning Walker
First off, I should say that straight out of the box (after the half-second or so of assembly, of course), my then 11-month-old jumped onto it and started tearing around the house, despite having never really *walked* before then, so…
The Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother
We got this for our kid when he was about two or three months old and have used it fairly steadily since (he’s just over seven months now). In general terms, it does a pretty good job of soothing him…
Six Days Wiser
Thanks to all for the congrats and well-wishes. We finally gave him a name—yes, before we left the hospital. For purposes of this blog, we’ll call him ‘Babaloo.’ Apart from restful sleep being a thing of the past and trying…
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