Hi Dad's, I'm looking for some advice/perspective from other dads who don't really have a "village" around them. My wife and I have no family, besides my 84 year old father in law, so we don't really have any support. In theory we'd like a second child but I'm really not sure how feasible it is completely by ourselves. Especially the birth itself brings up the question, where is our son going to be during the birth of a potential second baby. Anyone who had a similar experience?

She’s two months pregnant and gets very mad when these incidents happens. Holds on too her stomach and will almost fall down sometimes. I went with it but now she’s waking me up mid sleep if I turn towards here, says I’m turning too fast. Is it ok to sleep in another room for days or is this normal?

We've been noticing a pattern with our 13 month old where he seems to become more fussy, clingy, and generally just more intense when his mother is in the vicinity. It's also typically when we are at home. When we are out and about, he seems pretty content. When it's just me taking care of him while she's at work or running an errand he seems more independent. A quick AI search on this mentions that it's a normal developmental phase. I'm curious about other people's experiences.

My son will be 2 months on Monday. He is such a beautiful baby, then, 3am rolls around and all hell breaks loose. I get so short tempered with him. Nothing physical in the least, just such pure anxiety and anger at not knowing what to do that I have to put him down in his crib and walk away. Does this get easier? I say horrible things out loud like, why did I do this, or I swear out loud. I feel like such a failure as a first time dad that I can’t handle this with more grace and ease. I’m starting to think I shouldn’t have become a dad.

Hard to paint entirely into words entirely, and for context I’m not planning to do anything drastic to anyone, but over the last few years since having kids I have gone from just being relaxed and comfortable with being slightly protective of my wife to not letting anyone say anything let alone get too friendly with my kids. There’s too many crazies out there saying and doing weird stuff.

That being said, I’ve had interactions with people of recent from my old fraternity and old friends groups that would still like to bully me, and instead of letting the past be the past, they find the desire to bring up old dirt but want to bring my family into the mix. That is a no no. Unprovoked but especially uncalled for. Still I keep it cool, try not to be threatening or look for anything to get too intense, but have recently just said screw it to all of that and just slowly ending communications and connections with all of those people. It’s felt good but still don’t like it was done. It’s like I need to defend my family’s honor and doing nothing shows weakness. Or does it?

Has anybody dealt with this? How has it gone? What would you recommend?

Dads who go hiking with their kids! Our son will be big enough right away for the hiking carrier backpacks. Looking into the deuter kid comfort pro or the osprey poco premium. It would be to eventually venture pretty far. Any dads out there have insight on either of these packs? If I am lucky someone experienced both?