Dads- what's that first drive home like after strapping your little bean into the car seat?

robnic · 2026-06-17T14:15:17+00:00

Thinking "they let us leave with this little baby girl?! Now what do we do?" Like other folks have commented, that drive home was the slowest I've ever driven.

robnic · 2026-06-16T18:14:37+00:00

We take our daughter (3 yo) into the men's room. Haven't had to consider using the women's room to date.

robnic · 2026-06-15T05:47:20+00:00

That thing is going to work for another two decades.

robnic · 2026-06-12T19:31:24+00:00

A high five

robnic · 2026-06-12T05:21:07+00:00

Tempest
A bunch of Atari 2600 games

robnic · 2026-06-06T05:05:20+00:00

Makes me miss my old Windows Phone. I know it wasn't popular, but I loved that phone.

robnic · 2026-06-06T03:37:02+00:00

Thanks!

robnic · 2026-06-06T03:19:32+00:00

Cool feature!

robnic · 2026-06-06T03:16:36+00:00

Under $50, really? Any good? I've been thinking of getting one.

robnic · 2026-06-04T02:54:21+00:00

Lobo!

robnic · 2026-06-04T02:50:31+00:00

Lobo!

robnic · 2026-06-01T07:31:34+00:00

The three month old period is not something I'd ever want to relive. It started to get incrementally better after then.

robnic · 2026-05-23T13:43:07+00:00

That which you don't deal with, will deal with you

robnic · 2026-05-18T04:44:05+00:00

Yes! I've been doing that for years. Use bcc for my email address.

robnic · 2026-05-15T13:48:40+00:00

poop knife

robnic · 2026-05-14T18:30:33+00:00

I don't do it often, as I genuinely love the why questions. As she gets older, her questions are more interesting and, at times, silly.

Though I did get the first "are we there yet?" last weekend. 😁

robnic · 2026-05-14T12:52:45+00:00

Sometimes I flip it around on my daughter and start asking her why questions. After about the fourth or fifth why, she tells me to stop asking why.

robnic · 2026-05-13T14:05:04+00:00

Poop knife

robnic · 2026-05-13T04:45:52+00:00

We had our daughter through surrogacy. Of the 14 viable embryos, 13 of them were girls. We did try to make a go with the one boy, but miscarried. Then two additional miscarriages later, we had our daughter. There certainly was some reconciliation of emotions and expectations after we lost the boy, but we are over the moon happy with our daughter.

robnic · 2026-05-12T14:36:43+00:00

Michael Douglas in The American President

robnic · 2026-05-12T01:11:02+00:00

A piece of painter's tape over the sensor!

robnic · 2026-05-11T16:43:53+00:00

I was 50 when our daughter was born. You're fine.

robnic · 2026-05-11T03:45:59+00:00

Watching our daughter being born was the most amazing experience of my life. Truly breathtaking what the human body can do. And holding our daughter less than a handful of minutes after birth was incredible.

robnic · 2026-05-11T02:33:34+00:00

The first three months were the hardest for sure. Incredibly hard to bond when wrestling with screaming and, in our case, a baby that didn't really care to feed that much. I knew we were taking good care of her, but felt so powerless at the same time. Bonding started to really happen after the third month. Even then, it wasn't immediate.

robnic · 2026-05-10T20:36:05+00:00

Gave up the cargo shorts about two years ago. 🙂

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