re: Gonna be a new Dad

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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.

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"properly?" So your 4k shaky video is better than the shaky 1080p video my phone records? Regardless, it's all better than what our parents had. And it's much easier to catch a spontaneous moment with your phone than anything else.

I just don't see how you can say kids are documented worse now than previously.

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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.

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Why not? It's not going anywhere.

Having said all that, this isn't really the thread for this. Let's make another one

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"properly?" So your 4k shaky video is better than the shaky 1080p video my phone records? Regardless, it's all better than what our parents had. And it's much easier to catch a spontaneous moment with your phone than anything else.

I just don't see how you can say kids are documented worse now than previously.

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Agreed about the spontaneity of a phone, but I just find I'm much more committed to documenting stuff because I have a traditional camera over my phone. The overall point is to just document any and everything you can, even the seemingly boring stuff, and back it up. What tool you use is obviously up to you.

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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.

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I couldn't agree more with this advice. You will not regret doing this. It's priceless stuff and so much better than short videos from a phone. I'm very pro video camera. I took videos at the hospital for all of my siblings, too, when they had their kids and they are now happy to have them. My sister would bring the dvds on their trips in the car for the kids to watch. My brother puts his on the TV every Christmas Day while they're unwrapping and getting lunch ready. The kids love it. We watch ours pretty frequently.

Do not let them sleep with you! You'll never get them out of there. 1-2 crying nights in their own beds beats 5-6 years of them taking up your space every single night. Also, no morning sex with them in the middle.

Contact Maury Povich at 1-888-456-2879 or text "MAURY" to 85000.

Get as much sleep as you can now.

Sleep when the baby is sleep.

frick the experts, pacifiers are your friend.

Get the gowns or the zipper pjs, those button ones were made by the devil!



Enjoy every moment of it. The grow up faster than you know!

Congratulations on this amazing blessing! Love him and your wife with all your might, and you will be an amazing family!

Zippered onesies for sleeping. Buttons suck.

Swaddle the shite out of him. They have these swaddle sacks and wraps that IMhO are way better than the old school clothes because they're idiot proof and quick in the middle of the night.

Need a noise maker and black out curtains for the nursery. You basically want the nursery to be like a womb for the babys nap: dark warm cozy and white noise.

I'd recommend y'all both read BabyWise or Moms on Call and get on one of those schedules. If your wife is going back to work around 6 weeks, Moms on Call is better.

Burping takes/needs a little more force than you'd expect. Have an older nurse at the hospital show you before heading home.

And most importantly, don't sentence him to the lifelong shame of an anteater.