Spain Dad, a baby blog

Teo eats solid food for the first time… In case you’re asking the question: “Why are you letting Teo play with an avocado instead of feeding him baby food with a spoon?”

Watch Alleke terrorize her little brother on Vimeo.

Today I gave Teo a bottle for the first time. Watch How to Give a Bottle to a Breastfed Baby for the First Time on Vimeo. If I’ve missed anything, or you have any questions or advice to share, feel free to leave a comment…

It was my day off. Alleke was at school. April was in the shower, and I sat on the couch with Teo asleep in my arms smelling the back of his neck. His neck smelled like the beach—not clean or refined, but earthy and rich, salty and sweet, all blended together by nature. Smelling Teo’s [...]

Every time our friend Laura comes over, she looks at Teo like he’s a steak dinner. She has an appetite for holding babies, and she’s always so appreciative that we are willing to share him with her, which is just the way April and I want it to be, since in all honesty we would [...]

This video is guaranteed to make babies smile. I just showed this video to Teo twice, and both times he couldn’t stop smiling at himself. I guess he’s a perfectly healthy, egocentric, baby.

This post is part of a series telling Teo’s birth story. Click here to start at the beginning. I don’t think I knew what a “natural birth” was until it was almost over with. In terms I suppose only a man would use, a natural birth meant that the doctors and midwives left us alone [...]

This post is part of a series telling Teo’s birth story. Click here to start at the beginning. I went downstairs to check April into the hospital, and when I got back to the delivery room, I found the doctor and the midwives chatting on the couches in the small waiting room outside. I felt [...]

I will be telling Teo’s birth story over the next few days. Let’s begin with the taxi ride to the hospital… Taxi by Daquella manera. I didn’t say anything to the taxi driver about my wife being in labor when we climbed in the back seat of his car, but when I told him to [...]