About Us

Hello! Back in 2018 I started the greatest adventure of my lifetime when my oldest son B was born. Just over a year later my second son R was born, and life got crazy.

With B, I had no idea what brands were the best, what items we needed and which we only thought we would need, so I took the easy way out and got everything and researched even more. If I saw a new kind of bottle, or a baby monitor, I got it and tried it out. For items like car seats I did research and asked every friend of mine about their purchase to try and figure out what I should buy.

It was exhausting. And expensive. I finally felt like we had figured things out when R came around, but surprise! Every baby is different. Some of my choices still held up! And some were absolutely wrong for R.

But I had learned so much, and done so much research, that it was much easier the second time around. When I think back to those early, frantic days of not knowing what to get and what to pass on, I realize that I could have missed out on my kids early days by worrying about what really was the small stuff. Luckily, I did most of that worrying before he arrived, but if theres anything I can do to make it easier on other new parents I want to.

So I’ve put together this site, and I will start writing up the things I’ve learned. If its a product we loved, I’ll try and link it for others to look at. If its a technique I’ll link you to the source where you can find information from an actual authority. And if she decides this is interesting, we may even get to hear from the true baby authority in our house, my wife!

And don’t forget, I’m just a dad. I’m not a doctor, or a behavioral specialist, or even a lab tech at a car seat crash lab. I’ll share what I know with you so you can put it together with everything else you know and make the right choice for you and your family.

Feel free to reach out to me at rissover@acm.org.