I'm presently a full time dad of a proud Bowery Babes Baby and husband to a Bowery Babes Mum. Email me at kai@kaipix.com if you are interested in any BB Dads gatherings. I'm glad to help Melissa and the other organizers with this brand new website.

Kai.

 

While The Bowery Babes was created for local mothers to talk and share and connect, it has become increasingly clear that the Daddies need
to be in the circle too! Several stay-at-home Dads would like us to start a BBDaddies yahoo chat room, so stay tuned for that, or email your desire for this at info@bowerybabes.com

In the meantime, we have asked some BB Mommies if they had any supportive book ideas for expectant fathers and here is what we got:

" My husband really liked The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin.
And he also read The Expectant Father" by Armin Brott.
" I liked the parts aimed at male partners in Tracy Hogg's The Baby Whisperer. And frankly, reading up on the parts intended more for the future mom may help a husband more than something geared just towards men-kind of forcing them to think in another skin."

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"One of my guy friends really recommended "the birth partner" (a book)
-- he read it before his first baby was born, and it really reassured
him and told him what his role is.. (at least in the pregnancy and
birth process.)"

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"I heard about Kevin Nealon's book when I was pregnant and because I think he's hilarious, I was going to pick it up. However, I didn't have a whole lot of time after reading my own pregnancy books. So, I can't give a personal review and not sure if it will be helpful in waking the dad to be up, or if he might take the jokes too seriously....

In any event, it might be worth seeing if a mom did read it:

Kevin Nealon's Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?"

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My husband read: "The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, & Advice for Dads-to-Be" by Armin A Brott & Jennifer Ash "So You're Going to be a Dad" by Peter Downey.
My husband would lie in bed laughing hysterically reading this book and we have given it to several friends when they are expecting. He has also written a second book entitled "Dads, Toddlers, & The Chicken Dance" - another book my husband read whilst laughing hysterically in bed. My husband said he really enjoyed the advice and humour of Peter Downey."

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"A friend got this one for my husband when we were expecting Oliver: The Baby Owners Manual It's kinda funny and my husband actually did read it.
I also gave him specific projects-it was his job to research and buy the stroller and the car seat. ( I took care of things like breast pumps..)
Netflix rents many movies on pregnancy and infants-things like "the happiest baby on the block."

As happy as my husband was for me to be pregnant, it did not become "real" to him until my belly started kicking him in the back when we slept. He had never changed a diaper or even held an infant when our baby arrived. He did turn out to be an amazing father though."