A Dad Book: DadLabs: Pregnancy and Year One

Don’t be misled by the professionals on the cover and the tame title of this book. It is not your dad’s book! These dads have gone all out to ensure that their Mother-In-Laws (why do we capitalize those words?) will leave them alone for good with this book.

Pregnancy and raising a newborns is as important a subject matter that one can think of. Yet these guys-turned-dads have managed to turn these life altering experiences into a comical, yet entertaining, read.

Starting with the title of the Prologue, “The Sofa at the Center of the Universe”, one recognizes that this book is very Dad2.0.

If you’re guy considering having a sexual relationship with a woman someday or a great-great grand daddy, you will enjoy this book and probably learn a lot as well.

We give the book at rating of 6-stars. (One for each of those lil’ cutie pies being manipulated into posing for the photo for the book cover.)

Book Reviews:

Steven Bush, author of Dad Blogs, had this to say,

“The book addresses not only practical topics but also emotional issues, especially when it comes to a dad’s relationship with his wife. It guides dads not only through the mechanics of being an expectant or new father, but also through the social requirements as well.”

Belinda Acosta, writer for The Austin Chronicle
Description: Father may not know best, but DadLabs has made it its mission to make sure knows a little bit better

“…They incorporated in 2004 but truly dove in headfirst in 2007, when they left their teaching jobs to take on the DadLabs mission full time, which is to talk candidly about what it’s like to be a parent from the contemporary dad’s perspective. In short, the dads of DadLabs are proud to declare that “washing bottles won’t make your balls fall off,” as is written in the prologue of their newly released book, DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood: Pregnancy and Year One”

You can order the book from our Bookstore for less than a 12-pack of beer. Aren’t your children worth it? Dadz Bookstore

Beyond avoiding the unpleasantness of an amniocentesis test, the more important difference is the fact that the pregnant mother avoids the risks associated with the test altogether. It gets better…, the Sequenom test is a “home-brewed test” allowing an expectant mother to perform the simple test at home and as early as the end of the first trimester.

These tests will be available in June 2009. For more information: Sequenom

In trials the test performs extremely well with no false positives and 99.1% detection rate of abnormalities. These numbers are astounding and the tests should become popular with doctors and patients and widely used for prenatal screening.

As the father of 4 boys, including one with special needs, my experiences were as unique as those of the 40 dads interviewed for this documentary. The documentary summoned emotional memories that I had all but forgotten about. Having children is no doubt the most powerful experience I’ve been through and this documentary, Being Dad, is a powerful film that successfully restores these most precious of memories in an incredibly entertaining manner. I’m no film critic, but a “two-thumbs up” doesn’t do the film justice.

I recommend you and your wife set aside 80 minutes and enjoy the film online or order the DVD. Also, if you have a friend who is pregnant with a first child this would make for a meaningful gift as they navigate through their experience of becoming a mom or dad.

You can watch the 3 minute trailor here: Being Dad

The film is available on DVD for $25.99 (Being Dad DVD) or online for a special price of only $4.95 (regularly $9.95) here: Being Dad the Movie

For more information and details you can visit their Website at Being Dad USA.