The Babies Daddy

Summer Road Trip

Pete — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:07:58 +0000

As many of you have returned from your summer road trips or like me, have just embarked with the kids; it enters a new chapter in the book of parenting. Having completed one cross-country trip with my girls, then both under 4, a few years ago was exhausting and set the bar low for future trips. After adding another two days to the duration of the trip and having the mini van robbed and vandalized by thieves hot for sweet DVD headrest monitors - this trip surely would be better!

We begin the 6 day journey driving form Atlanta to Los Angeles on Sunday. Delivering a friend’s Toyota Prius would be a great chance for the girls and I learn about the country, swim and for them - catch up on their DVD and music collection. This time - they will have in-car entertainment via my iPod and PowerBook - portable media is the only way to go! Now I leave the car free of any gear that would tempt any thief.

My road rules are one movie every 4 hours or one after lunch and one after dinner. The carrot of each day is a lunch at a playground and one hour of swimming each night. So far so good to keep the 6 and 4 year out of mischief. They have lots of energy to spend and those road stops every two hours help vent that glorious energy and keeps the potty breaks manageable…

Time to hit the road - more updates tonight! See our album in the mean time!

A model father

Pete — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:09:14 +0000

Somehow I thought Godzilla was a woman?

When did breasts become community property?

Pete — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:00:53 +0000

My wife was reading the recent Time Magazine and read an article to me about the outsourcing of breast milk? The outsourcing of nursing? Well - I paused and thought about the ancient practice of wet nursing. I am all for breast feeding, except for the fact that your wife will likely not let you near her breasts during this time…but the idea of cross nursing? The article describes neighbors in my home town of San Jose, CA who cross nursed with her neighbor. Ok…I can understand the need for nutritional help but to make this a social activity with the neighbor? Well, back the main topic of this as a lucrative job. The article writes that wet nurses or those that are hired for pay to nurse your children, earn about $1,000/week. My wife was amazing to have nursed both of our kids for about a year. She pumped and banked milk for bottle feeding when she had to travel or was just to tired to do it anymore and me bottle feed them. A friend nursed her twins like a machine for months - what a task. I just can’t imagine hiring a nanny, nurser and housekeeper. I guess in our day of outsourcing this concept should not be so odd? What are your thoughts?

Laughing at becoming a breeder

Pete — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:56:25 +0000

A clip from the new ABC comedy - Notes from the Underbelly. You have to live it to get the jokes. This show is dead on!

What is the baby’s daddy doing?

Pete — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:08:10 +0000

Welcome to the birth of our blog. I call this our blog because it is for dads by dads. Having 6 years of being the only dad at the park, birthday party or doctors appointment got me thinking about our lonely daddy existence. The piles of magazines, books and parenting podcasts are all about the mama. Well - there is a reason for it - with the trauma of the mama and the openness of the dialogue they share. What was there is there for us - the babies daddy? We are left to make the gear decisions, push the stroller and change the diapers.

If you are a hands on dad like me then share and come back for the stories. If you are a daddy to be then come and ask questions. If you are a hands off daddy then what are you doing here?

I am collecting the stories, advice, reviews and media from friends and strangers that like you and I are the babies daddies. I will have a regular podcast and vodcast along with the posts to hear the stories from dads like us.