Welcome one, welcome all – drum roll please for my brand spanking new Beta Daddy Series (cue canned applause, whoops, etc). As I explained previously, I have been asked many times about whether or not there is a Beta Daddy. The short answer is no, not in my house, but just as there are many many Beta Mummies, surely there must be plenty of Beta Daddies out there too…?
I have a cracker of a post for you today written by James from A Life Just Ordinary – and he’s even done his own doodle to go with it – amazing!James is a funny guy and I love reading his blog posts, which he often links up with the #Chucklemums Linky. In this very special, first ever Beta Daddies post, James describes how he thinks a Beta Daddy and an Alpha Daddy might approach taking baby home for the first time….
Taking baby home with Beta Daddy
Dads generally get the nicer end of the birth experience. A baby that you can hold and gaze longingly at without the pain, discomfort and general squeezing of bowling ball through nether regions. Aside from being supportive and being available for back rubs and hand squeezes it’s definitely the easier part of the deal.
One thing a dad does need to do though is bring the car seat into the hospital when it’s time to leave and successfully strap the little one inside ready for the exciting first journey home. An Alpha Daddy would probably have spent weeks researching this task, reading manuals and watching YouTube video guides. They may even have asked their more experienced daddy friends how to do it. Either way they would just get the job done and the three would blissfully smile as they glided out of the hospital to start their happy lives as a new family.
A Beta Daddy, on the other hand, “may” have spent 20 minutes yanking it out of the car, humping it the ten minute walk to the hospital and then spent a further 30 stressful minutes figuring the straps out whilst the little angel screamed, and the other half looked on in amazement / despair in the hospital room. Maybe.
If that were to have happened here is how it may have looked (if drawn by a 2 year-old)…
Thank you to James for giving me such a laugh – the doodles really did crack me up! I hope you enjoyed reading James’ take on Alpha Daddy/Beta Daddy. Please do go and check out his blog and other social media:
www.alifejustordinary.com
www.twitter.com/JoshuasDadJames
www.facebook.com/alifejustordinary
www.instagram.com/joshuasdadjames
See you again soon for more Beta Daddy adventures…
Hahahaha, this is amazing! I love it – well done James!
Thanks Sarah! Was fun to be involved!
Love this. Bloody car seats. Did you catch Wills when Kate first left hospital with George? Proper alpha daddy right there, you’d expect nothing less though. I imagine he had hours of car-seat fitting lessons.
Love it! When Evie was ready for her voyage home the midwife actually “did” the car seat for us, I guess her conscience won out over the hilarity of our ineptitude! Safety first…
We didn’t have a midwife in the vicinity for pretty much that entire painful last day in hospital!! Got there in the end though!!
Ha ha! Well done James! Very funny. And a great new series!
Thanks Laura! Hopefully lots more dads will get their crayons out!!
It was so strange. After months of NCT classes and reading baby books I thought I’d nailed it. Then came the car seat…
They should warn you about these things? No matter how much we had practiced getting the sodding thing (car seat – not baby – that would be a bit harsh) in and out of the car, we hadn’t for one minute practiced the actual strapping in of the infant part. Beta Daddy still appears to have one up on us though. At least The Mummy is laid on a bed. I was wrestling said car seat with a John Wayne stance myself whilst hubby watched on bemused! 😉 LOVE the doodles!
Seriously where do you come up with these sketches!? The mom with the middle finger and the idiot dad utubing how to do something he has had NINE FUCKING MONTHS to figure out.
OMG- I cant!
I want you to compile a book of these stetches. Please.
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‘Baby wriggling like an oily squirrel’ is cracking me up. I definitely remember neither myself or my boyfriend being able to strap the carseat in on the way home from the hospital – what a bloody nightmare x #chucklemums
Love it! Well done James for showing all the Beta Daddies out there how it’s done – and that they’re not alone. #chucklemums
Haha James! What a sport! Yup, thats why we have You Tube! Greatest invention yet! Along with Google of course! #chucklemums
Haha daddy’s definitely do get the better end of the stick! Lolling at the daggers! #chucklemums
Ace, loving the daggers! Beta Daddy – we can relate!! very funny #chucklemums
Brilliant! I’d love to meet the new dad that did do a bath and rose petals on return from the hospital! #chucklemums
I might try that if we have a second baby. Along with the push diamond that is apparently mandatory…
Proud beta dad here haha. Daggers are pretty much the standard look for my OH at the minute. #chucklemums
Proud Beta Dad here……Daggers are pretty much the only way my OH looks at the now haha
Brilliant drawings and epic comparison! So very true. We absolutely fell into the Beta category with this particular hurdle! #chucklemums
#eatsleepblogrt this is fab and cat seats are made for the engineers of the world…not that I have a clue how to use the thing?
Great work Beta Dad. Those car seats are a bugger to fit!
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HA ha this was so my husband – he now has no part in any baby ‘equipment’ – I think it may have been a clever ploy…. #EatSleepBlogRT