re: Gonna be a new Dad

Buy a quality camera for pictures/video and get an external hard drive for storage.

Most kids these days are going to have limited accounts of their childhoods other than a few shaky portrait mode 15 second videos. It's a shame.

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Most kids these days are going to have limited accounts of their childhoods other than a few shaky portrait mode 15 second videos. It's a shame.

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Huh? Kids today will have way easier access to quality pics form their childhood compared to our generation.

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You're going to be proud as frick.

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The days of bitching about all the kid videos on your social media timelines will cease.

Congrats bro.

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Congrats bro.

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weak. i clicked on thread just to read your contrarian bit of advice and was so let down.

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Huh? Kids today will have way easier access to quality pics form their childhood compared to our generation.

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I guess it depends on the family, but home videos are basically non existent for most.

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Don't put the scented vaseline on his circumcision

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The hospital gave us some kind of gauze type wrap that was soaked in vaseline that we used for the first two days. I was not prepared for how red/raw/angry looking his little unit would be. The doctor told me that I would be more traumatized than the little fella would be seeing as how he won't remember it

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I think he meant videos not pictures

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This. A few weeks after our child was born we went out and got a quality camera with 4k video and it is one of the best investments we've made.

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My only advice (as I'm about 4.5 months into this) is to get your kid on a routine asap.

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This. People told us we "were lucky" but you also have to be firm and establish a schedule and stick to it.

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I guess I'm failing to see what a nice camera is going to accomplish that a phone won't. You bringing a tripod with you everywhere?

Kids child hoods today are way more documented. I wish mine was this documented

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For me it was a commitment to actually documenting things "properly". For example, I video often and for much longer periods of time than my friends with phones only. The quality is also exceptional and I'm much more inclined to store the videos properly.

I can't tell you how many pictures/videos I've lost over the years when my phone was stolen, broken, lost, etc.

I also don't consider posting a picture or video to Facebook as an adequate way to store it for any long period of time.