Diaper Bag

You think you don’t need this but you absolutely do!  You need your own bag with your own baby essentials.  You don’t want to carry some frothy frou-frou thing around that has all sorts of women’s products along with baby products.  Diaper Dude has a whole line of diaper bags for men like the messenger bag below!  Manly and functional!

It may not seem obvious when you are holding that new baby but you need a decent set of tools.  But from now on, you will be putting together everything under the sun.  (Please do not wait until the night before to put together that toy that looks like it will just slip together – it won’t!)  Stanley has a set of basic tools that will be a great start to the tools you will amass over the years.

Sleep

 

With a new baby around it is nearly impossible to get any decent sleep, so give yourself a leg up.  Get some Mack’s Earplugs (my personal favorite).  

And get a good pillow, like this Sleep Innovations Contour Memory Foam Pillow which helps to cut down on snoring!

And get permission to sleep from your significant other or else you may never sleep again!

 

Lullabies

 

Even if you don’t know the words or you can’t sing a lick, make sure you can hum a few bars of some familiar tunes.  Music is very soothing to the baby. And will be to you! Try the Lullaby Renditions of Classic Children’s Songs!

Advice

You don’t know what you are doing (and neither does she!) and some things really are just instinctive. But when you are out of your depth and just need some help, read The New Dad’s Survival Guide: Man-to-Man Advice for First-Time Fathers!

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