Baby Health and Safety
Worried about your baby's well being? Thousands of new dads have used the resources below to keep their babies healthy and safe and themselves calm.
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Ramping up for Birth
- Ready to Go at a Moment’s Notice
- Pregnancy: The Warm-up
- Essentials for Your Hospital Bag
- Hospital Practice Runs
- Babies Are Incredible
- Connecting With Your Child before Birth
- Advice on Advice
- The Circumcision Decision
- A Mother’s Extraordinary Bond
- Planning a Birth
- Making Arrangements at the Hospital
- Getting Ready for Your Baby
Taking Care of a New Baby
- The Best That Life Has to Offer
- A Man’s Unique Perspective
- What Caring for Children Brings to Men
- Things to Know About Babies
- Cool Things Babies Can Do
- More Things to Know About Babies
- Feeding Your Baby
- Common Baby Health Issues
- Holding Your Baby
- Changing Diapers
- Dressing Your Baby
- Teaching Your Baby to Burp
- Bathing Your Baby
Helping a New Mom
- A Baby’s Impact on Mom
- What Happened to My Wife?
- New Moms Can be Tough on New Dads
- Honor the Mother of Your Child
- Becoming a Mom
- A Mom’s Different Trajectory
- A New Mom’s Take on New Dads
- First Babies Can Be Very Tough on Moms
- Amazing Transformation within Mom
- Window of Opportunity
Becoming a Dad
- Starting Point: Our Own Fathers
- Laughing Beats Crying
- Reporting for Duty
- Balancing Act
- Developing Patience
- Welcome to Serious Manhood
- Lessons from the Front Lines
- Protecting Your New Family
- Becoming a Dad
- Initial Words of Wisdom
- Good Dads Are Priceless
- Getting Between You and Your Baby
- Preparing You for the Worst and the Best
- What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
- If You Are Not Married
- Babies Can Push Us Together or Apart
- Becoming a Family
- Babies Impact Relationships
- Tough Transformation
- Family Planning
- Sources of Conflict
- Building a Parenting Team
Baby Health and Safety
- What Men Bring to Caring for Children
- How to Tell if Your Baby is Not Well
- Never Leave Your Baby in the Car Unattended
- Pet Safety
- Growing Your Baby’s Brain Power
- Baby-Proofing Your Child’s Environment
- Buckling Up for the First Ride Home
- Building Your Baby’s Brain
- Your Baby’s Health
- Smoking, Drinking and Drugs
- Day Care Essentials
- Pools, Buckets, and Other Drowning Hazards
- Falling, Crushing, and Other Accidents
Finances and Other Basics
- Arranging Time Off Work
- One or Two Incomes?
- Career Path Convergence
- Stretching Your Budget
- Limited Finances
- Getting a Handle on Finances
- Use Your Resources
- When Long Work Hours Are Unavoidable
Return to Romance
- Bringing Out the Hottie in Her
- Making Love Again
- Making Love Strengthens Your Marriage for the Long Run
- Moms and Dads Place Different Values on Sex
- Sex in Six Weeks to Six Months
- Ideas For Getting Ahead of Her Curves
- If She is Never in the Mood
- Foreplay is Your Ticket to Heaven
- Find or Make Time
- Do Things Together
- Different Perspectives
- If You are Never in the Mood
Making it an Adventure
- Girls Can Do Anything Boys Can Do
- Your New Buddy
- Playing at 2 to 4 Months
- Serious Games at 4 to 6 Months
- Show Him the World
- Settling In for the Long Term
- It’s a Dirty Job and Dad Has to Do It
- Games for 0 to 2 Months
- Toys for Babies and Dads
- Raising a Road Warrior
- Essentials for Playing with Your Baby
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