Category archive: newborn

March 8, 2013

Egon Schiele Sketchy Newborns

The turn-of-the-last-century Viennese expressionist Egon Schiele has always creeped me out a bit, maybe half the time in a good way. An OB/GYN friend giving the 20yo Schiele free rein at a maternity ward so he could paint newborns...
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February 25, 2013

How I Met Your Mohel

If you only read one thing in deciding whether to circumcise your son, then for G-d's sake, DON'T DO IT. You really ought to give more thought, consideration, and research to the matter: it's another man's penis being sliced up,...
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December 7, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: L'Edition Sperme

We missed a couple of weeks, but here are a handful of headlines from the worlds of health, safety, and parenting, bundled up to freak you out all at once, on your own schedule. It's the Daddy Types Friday Freakout:...
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October 9, 2012

Occupy Protestors Multiplying

You know how it goes. When a peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestor and the medic who treated her pepper spray burns love each other very much... Mazeltov to Kaylee Dedrick, Robert Grodt, and their new daughter Tegan, who joined the...
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October 5, 2012

Introducing Tom Ford For Dads

Mazeltov, I didn't even know they were expecting. Maybe because I stopped paying much attention to what Tom Ford was doing or thinking or talking about many years ago, and so missed his 2008 interview in Fantastic Man where...
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September 13, 2012

No Blood For Mohel

Every time this whole, metzitzah b'peh, mohel sucks the blood off the freshly circumcised penis thing turns up in the news, I thank G-d that being a New Yorker only makes you Jewish on the inside. And speaking of the...
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September 10, 2012

Inglourious 'Breastapo' Prefers The Milk.

Oh, man, if these Sunday Star-Times reports are any indication, the health care system in New Zealand has been seized by power-mad lactivists loyal to the WHO, who have turned the little island nation into the breastfeeding version of...
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August 16, 2012

EBB: Everything But Breastfeeding

People really do get worked up over breastfeeding and bottlefeeding. But whether you go the formula route, or the pump, dads giving the kid a bottle, especially in the middle of the night, provides a real and concrete benefit to...
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July 31, 2012

Latch On, Latch Off: Bloomberg Tells Hospitals To Lock Up That Formula

The Bloomberg administration has persuaded 27 of New York City's 40 hospitals to adopt new, breastfeeding-friendlier procedures for newborns. As part of the new Latch On NYC program, maternity ward nurses are supposed to encourage new moms to breastfeed by...
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July 6, 2012

WWMD?

Greg McKeown has a nice piece on the Harvard Business Review blog about how, contra the example and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, he totally went to some random Very Important Client Meeting the day after his kid was born.To my...
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June 12, 2012

Tony Promo

Starter young, that's what I always say. And by I, I mean pro golfer Tony Romo, who went all Tori Spelling and dressed his newborn son in some gear from his sponsor, Starter, and then snapped some pics, which the...
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May 10, 2012

These Things We Pray

I know that two days before Mother's Day is arguably an even worse time to bring this up than when I thought about it--in the middle of church, staring at the kids a couple of rows ahead of us--but...
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March 30, 2012

Uh, OK! Parent Profile Rattle From Cameo By RUX

When you find a concept that works, you stick with it, I guess. Russell Greenberg designed his wedding rings by extruding his and his wife's profiles, and now that they've had a kid, he's deployed his profile extrusion technology...
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March 16, 2012

DT Friday Freakout

Whether it's criticism of your choice of preschool art party clown or something weightier, like, say, your soon-to-be-born baby being poisoned by everything in your house, the DT Friday Freakout is your one-stop headline roundup for ruining your entire weekend:...
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March 14, 2012

Kissing Babies

Our 5-week old daughter and Mitt Romney have one thing in common; they've both been up all night, crying.— Michael David Murphy (@whileseated) March 14, 2012...
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February 23, 2012

The Deam Guide To Airstream Living

You may remember Christopher Deam from such blog posts as "guy who created plexi-walled cribs for his twins" and "molded ply guy whose wife started Dwell." Anyway, he also has been doing Airstream trailer renovations, which look awesome, perfect for...
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February 16, 2012

I'll Be Your Memory

With 2.5 years of dadhood under his belt, and twins on the way, Coding Horror's Jeff Atwood has given some thought to this whole parenthood thing:Being a new parent is both terrifying and exhilarating, a constant rollercoaster of extreme highs...
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February 6, 2012

Letterpress Year You Were Born Cards, By Double Bravo

Double Bravo Design Studio's sweet little Year You Were Born Card for New York lets you fill in the kind of vital info that the mainstream, non-city-specific baby books leave out. Things like Nearest subway stop, Number of hot...
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February 3, 2012

Blue Ivy's Got 99 Problems, But A Drawn Out Trademark Application Process Ain't One

From TESS, the US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Electronic Search System: Word Mark BLUE IVY CARTER Goods and Services IC 003. US 001 004 006 050 051 052. G & S: Fragrances, cosmetics, skin care products, namely, non-medicated skin...
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January 20, 2012

Fatherhood Is Is Awesome

Woo-hoo, this is awesome. Though I think Adam Brown, the new dad under the kid above--and behind Fatherhood Is--is underestimating the extent to which his non-Internet-famous twin will resent his sister's Internet fame. Then again, with a new dad...
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January 10, 2012

How Awesome Is This Kid/Photo/Natural Rubber Pacifier?

OMG, so cute! Buy a natural rubber pacifier just like Andy from Reference Library and Stork Bite Man's peace sign-throwing kid! It's like the blogger version of People Magazine all up in here. Next up: Little Sartorialist's exclusive street...
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December 22, 2011

And They Shall Call His Name Emanuel. And His Jesus.

Let's put this story from the northern Brazilian state of Para into chronological order:Claudioner Assis de Vasconcelos, director of the hospital in Anajas where she gave birth, told Brazil's O Povo newspaper that the mother came in because she was...
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September 22, 2011

Mmm, Bends Like Chicken

I was stunned and impressed and not a little jealous that DadWagon managed to score an interview with rock star Paul Ford on the very day he announced the birth of twins. But then I realized it was a pre-dadhood...
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September 21, 2011

The Foreskin Tree

Foreskins! So simple and obvious, yet so complex! So there's not giving a moment's thought to circumcising your kid. There's thinking about it and wondering, "Holy smokes, why would I cut off this guy I just barely met's penis...
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September 20, 2011

Hmm, Should I Cut Off Part Of My Son's Penis?

Here is the story of a guy--from his pen name, I'm guessing he's in Oklahoma City--who is, for the first time, really contemplating whether to cut off part of another guy's penis. He wisely asks his dad for advice--only to...
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July 22, 2011

Plum Trying To Monetize Hand-Me-Downs

The kids can wear the hell out of some outfits, and then barely get one wear out of others before they grow out of them. You can get a ton of free stuff to cover the first few months, and...
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July 12, 2011

There Is No Buy: Another Yoda Baby Hat There Is!

Nearly seven years after the first one hit the web, Australian knitter and Etsy seller Knitterkrys has introduced her own design for a Yoda baby hat. And unlike George Lucas's Yoda retreads, this is actually an improvement. Unfortunately, it's...
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June 6, 2011

Circumcision Ban Campaign Not Quite Ready For Its Closeup

So the campaign to enact laws banning circumcision in California without religious exemptions is "gaining momentum," reports the New York Times. At least it was until the Times also asked the folks at the Anti-Defamation League what they thought about...
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March 8, 2011

Vaccines Come In On Little Ninja Feet

See, it's the little differences. Whereas for us in the West it's the fabricated threats of autism, in Japan, it's the sudden spate of infant deaths that sets the vaccine panics off. Prevenar, or Prevnar, manufactured by Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis,...
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January 22, 2011

What To Expect When You're Expecting To Move To Brooklyn

You know, I was sitting here this morning, trying to make sense out of the New York Times real estate article, about how the young families think they're edgy because the generic glass condo towers they're moving into are in...
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January 21, 2011

I Was A Practice Baby

You've heard the story about practice babies, right? How random kids were plucked from whatever crib or orphanage was handy, and were given to a group of home ec students to raise for a semester? Sure you have. My mom...
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January 11, 2011

And Ma In Her Kerchief, And I In My Cap

It's always better to get those remodeling, repainting, or art rehanging projects done before the kid arrives, but sometimes that isn't possible. Still, I'd think that the chairman of an auction house [and reality TV judge!] would have people for...
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December 10, 2010

iPhone Baby Quilt

First off, a high five to Grandma Harriet. This is absolutely incredible work. Definitely one of the top two iPhone baby gifts a grandma could give. But also, nice hustle on getting the domain name for the kid. Mazel...
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November 15, 2010

Monday Male Mutilation Mailbag

It's remarkable how quickly circumcision rates have been plummeting in the US in the last couple of years. I figure it's people stepping stepping back and actually thinking through the logic and implications of "I want him to look like...
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October 29, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Whooping Cough Edition

You ever have one of those weeks where the news from science, health, parenting, and everything else is just too diverse to freak out over in one post? Well, this is one of those weeks. So for the first in...
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October 27, 2010

Watch Out, Neal Pollack

Whether you're a parenting advice expert or a momblogger, a filmmaker, a comedian, a hipster memoirist, a singer or a Kardashian--hell, it probably even happened to Erma Bombeck--there's that moment anyone who makes money off his kids dreads: Hahahaha, no,...
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October 17, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Sunday Supplement Edition

On the bright side, if the Friday Freakout doesn't come out until Sunday night, maybe it only ruins my weekend. Here are some devastating headlines from the worlds of science, education, safety, and parenting: Sleep positioners have been implicated in...
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October 5, 2010

Putting The 'Free' In 'BPA-Free': DT Reports From The Adiri Evening Of Pampering

Recently, Daddy Types was invited to the chic WeHo boite, Falcon to enjoy an evening of mini-cupcakes, mani/pedis, facials, and some serious momtalk about which ultimate breast shape-simulating baby bottle has less BPA than the evening's sponsor, Adiri. [hint:...
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September 29, 2010

What's The Secret, Max?

See, this is why I was wondering if Grover's near/far lesson wasn't completely lost on someone who basically sees the television as a glowing flat spot on the wall. I mean, when does it really seem any different from a...
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September 27, 2010

Fake It Till You Make It

I didn't click through when the publicist sent me the link for Phillip Toledano's essay about reluctant fatherhood, because I thought it was going to be all about his own dying father or whatever. Which is fine and good and...
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September 1, 2010

La Biennale Del Bambini

The Venice Architecture Biennale opened last weekend. It's the first time it's been curated by a woman, Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of the architecture firm SANAA. And because women are just so innately nurturing, the Biennale was transformed overnight into a...
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August 23, 2010

I Think We Can All Agree The Answer Is NOT 'Breastfeeding Discharge Bags'

From the DT Monday Mommy Mailbag [hey!]:ByMomsForMoms just announced a little contest that I thought you might want to share with your readers, Twitter followers and Facebook fans. We've been working with Cottonwood Kids for about a year now helping...
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August 16, 2010

Infant Stool Illustrations By The Inestimable Mrs J.D.Z. Chase

Sure, she produced, for the purposes of diagnosis and education, the hand-drawn illustrations of the contents of various infant diapers included in Dr. Harry Lowenburg's 1916 A practical treatise on infant feeding and allied topics, for physicians and students....
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July 23, 2010

Closed Saturdays

hahahahahaha via @museumnerd's Twitter: Only rarely does a @newyorker cartoon actually make me laugh with surprise like this one did....
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May 11, 2010

Parental Leave Around The World

What does an American computer nerd living in Sweden do when the birth of his first daughter thrusts the reality of the world's most generous paternal leave system upon him? He crunches data to make interactive parental leave policy maps...
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April 22, 2010

Ellie For Willie

Whether you think it's exhaustive or exhausting, New York Magazine's sprawling feature talking about circumcision from every angle imaginable should be required reading for anyone deciding the fate of somebody else's foreskin. And as of tonight, it seems like the...
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April 9, 2010

Wait, How Many Free Diapers Do British Kids Get Every Day?

The NY Times has caught onto the supposed Mumsnet Election Fever that's sweeping British politics at the moment. Both the Labour PM Gordon Brown and his conservative Tory challenger David Cameron and their wives are working the family-friendly angle. Cameron,...
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March 24, 2010

After Reports Of 3 Deaths, Infantino Recalls 1 Million Fugly Slings

Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and--uh, no. It is not. The CPSC, Health Canada and Infantino just announced the recall of one million slings in the US and 15,000 in Canada [so few!] after reports of three...
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March 16, 2010

Overimagined Necessity Is The New Mother Of Invention

No idea why I thought of this right now: Adults who become parents are usually challenged by their new role, with its responsibilities and anxieties. New parents also face previously unexplored values and attitudes that surface suddenly upon the birth...
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January 31, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Weekend WTF Edition

What's the hype from the worlds of science, medicine, safety, and parenting this week? British newspapers totally make up scientific stories and then try to pass them off as the research findings of whatever hapless scientist is unlucky enough to...
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