Okay, your new child is two days old. You’ve been camped in your bedroom for the past 36 hours, wrapped up in all things baby. But you’ve run out of bread and milk and coffee and so it’s time to go to the grocery store.
So you leave your partner with the child, throw on some [...]
This one is probably obvious to most people, although the reasoning behind it might be a surprise. The days after your baby are born are amazing, energetic, frantic, sleepy, exhausting, exhilarating times. You don’t want to miss a second of it. It’s a no-brainer that you’ll want to take a week or [...]
Now is a great time to become a father. Never before has our culture granted men such leniency in defining the role they wish to play as parents. You can be more engaged in all aspects of your children’s live. And there’s no better place to start than at the birth.
Among many little joys and [...]
Maybe it’s just the age we are, or the age of our generation, but it seems like everywhere I look, people I know are having babies. There are four babies due in 2009 just at work, and another handful scattered among my social network. Since most of these parents are first timers, I thought I’d [...]