The Day I Surrendered to YouTube Baby Videos (And Then Panicked)
It was 4:17 PM on a Tuesday in late November, which in London means it had been pitch black outside for what felt like three consecutive days, and both girls were currently engaged in a competitive screaming match on the...
The truth about being my baby's daddy: A first-time dad log
I'm currently staring at my 11-month-old daughter while she aggressively tries to jam a wooden block into my lukewarm coffee mug. The biggest lie they tell you about fatherhood is that the "dad instincts" will automatically download into your brain...
Newborn Baby Eyesight: When Do Their Optical Sensors Boot Up?
I was holding him roughly three hours after the emergency C-section, doing that weird head-bobbing thing people do when they want a golden retriever to look at them. He just stared blankly through my left earlobe. My wife, still half-numb...
Why Raising A Little Tiger Shouldn't Mean Losing Your Mind
The biggest lie they tell us about raising successful kids is that you've to start treating them like miniature Harvard applicants the second they crown. I remember sitting on my hand-me-down couch with my oldest baby, heavily caffeinated and crying...
The Truth About Tracking Your Baby Size by Week in Pregnancy
It was a Tuesday at like 9:15 AM, and I was exactly 24 weeks pregnant with Leo. I was sitting in the terrifyingly quiet waiting room of my OB-GYNβs office, sweating straight through my favorite grey Zara sweater even though...
Why the Baby Shamili Medical Story Sent Me Down a 3 AM Spiral
It was 2:14 AM and I was wearing my husband Markβs tragically oversized college track t-shirt that smells vaguely of stale salsa, staring at my phone in the dark while Maya, then four months old, used my left shoulder as...
When Do Babies Roll: A First-Time Dad's Guide to the Midnight Flip
2:14 AM. The baby monitor is glowing like a radioactive brick on my nightstand. I'm staring at a grayscale pixel blob that's supposed to be my four-month-old daughter, except instead of lying flat on her back like a compliant little...
When Do Babies Roll From Back to Belly
The monitor glowed like a radioactive potato on my nightstand at 3:14 AM. Usually, my son was a static lump of swaddled cotton, entirely predictable in his lack of mobility. Tonight, the lump was gone, replaced by a flat, face-down...
When Will My Baby Actually Roll Over? A Dad's Data Log
It was 2:14 AM on a random Tuesday when the firmware update clearly hit. I rubbed my eyes, squinted at the grainy night-vision feed on the baby monitor, and froze. My previously stationary, log-like child was suddenly facedown in his...