For expecting and first-year dads. No question is too basic.
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My son just turned 3 months and some days he'll sleep 4 hours straight, other days he's up every 90 minutes. We're doing the SNOO and it helps but I feel like we're not following a
Been using Calm for anxiety but some of the dad-specific breathing exercises feel kind of corny. Does Headspace have better stuff? Or should I just lean into the corniness? Looking
My wife wants to start Ferber method with our 4-month-old because she's back at work and absolutely losing it with the night wakings. I'm on board with ANYTHING that gets us more s
We got one as a gift and honestly it's been the only thing that calms my son down enough to set him down. Before this he'd wake up the second you transferred him. Just wondering if
We've tried Pampers Swaddlers, Pampers Pure, Pampers Swaddlers Size 2, and literally three different rash creams and my daughter STILL gets diaper rash twice a week. Is anyone else
Spent $150 on this thing and our 2-month-old will absolutely not sleep in it. He screams the second we put him down in it but is fine in his bassinet. We're out $150 and he's sleep
So we had a pretty decent routine going with our son until last week. He was doing 4-5 hour stretches at night, we were managing. Then he turned 4 months and it's like someone flip
He told me to just "let the baby cry it out" when our 2-week-old was struggling with gas. Like yeah Dad, let me just ignore my newborn because that's totally the move. Then he got
Saw a dad at the grocery store yesterday with his baby in one of those baby carriers and I could see the carrier wasn't positioned super ergonomically. My gut instinct was to be li
Not asking for sleep training advice or anything, just venting that our schedule has become 4am wake time, can't get back to sleep, so we're up for the day. This has been happening
Not in a bad way necessarily but like, my wife is completely consumed by our 5-month-old daughter. Which is beautiful and I love watching her be an amazing mom, but sometimes I mis
I need to vent. Our daughter was doing SO GOOD - sleeping 5-6 hour stretches and we thought we finally had this figured out. Week 16 hits and suddenly she's up every 90 minutes aga
Our 7-week-old will scream bloody murder if I hold her but the second we put her in the stroller she's out. Is this weird? My mom keeps saying I'm "spoiling" her by letting her sle
I thought we were prepared. We read books, took a class, had conversations about split duties. But the reality is my wife is still carrying most of the mental load even though I'm
We're expecting our second kid in about 4 months and my wife is pushing hard for a Snoo bassinet for the bedroom. I know people who swear by it but... it's $1500 for a fancy bassin
So my son is almost 3 months old and started doing this thing where he'll spit up like... violently. It's not just a little burp either, sometimes it shoots across the room. We swi
We're using formula with our 3-month-old twins because my wife couldn't produce enough and honestly the stress was destroying her mental health. I know fed is best and all that, bu
Wife and I are still debating this for our son due in 6 weeks. I'm leaning yes because that's what I had, wife is leaning no because she read some stuff about it being unnecessary.
We've got a newborn (8 days old) and a 2-year-old. I'm at the point where my wife breathes wrong and I want to snap at her. We're both running on like 3 hours of broken sleep. She
Not even joking. My wife and I have been tag-teaming so hard that neither of us has time for basic hygiene. I smell like a gym locker mixed with spit-up. This is unsustainable lol.