About to become a new father?
Congratulations!
You have so many things to plan for and be excited about. Building the nursery, learning to change diapers, and learning to survive on little to no sleep.
But right now you have to figure out what to do those first few weeks after baby comes home. Can you stay home with mom and the baby and get paid? How much unpaid leave can new dads take? What will happen to your salary and benefits when you go back to work?
I remember the days of mixing formula extremely well.
We used to make big jugs of formula at night that would give us plenty for the next day.
The process was simple, but treacherous: Fill the jug with the right amount of water, carefully count out the scoops of formula, stir thoroughly.
When it comes to food, baby’s earliest days are, quite frankly, a bit of a nightmare
Breastfeeding is an enormously difficult and tiring job for mom. And formula feeding has plenty of headaches as well.
(You haven’t lived until you’ve forgotten how many scoops of formula you added to an entire jug of the mixture and had to dump the whole thing and start over.)
Poopy diapers are pretty gross. This isn’t exactly breaking news. But for some parents, they’re REALLY, really gross, and especially hard to deal with. It sounds like a dramatic excuse, …
When you’re getting the nursery ready for a new baby, everything revolves around one thing:
The crib!
It’s the centerpiece of the room, and it’s pretty much your baby’s home for the next couple of months, at the very least.
Car seat safety seems like a simple thing.
Buy a car seat that fits your kid, buckle them in, and whala! You’re all set.
Right?
