Building NewRoots for New Parents - https://teapawt.net/t.co/d9M4JYo5la For free resources for New Parents - https://teapawt.net/t.co/69UW62etqN
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The most tired person in the house is often the one saying "I'm fine, go back to sleep."
Not because they're fine. Because explaining takes energy they don't have left.
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The hardest question at 3 AM isn't "is the baby okay?"
It's "when did she last eat?"
And the only person who knows is asleep.
New parents don't run out of love. They run out of shared information.
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Offload's beta got zero sign-ups.
Same problem, wrong chapter. Mental load shows up everywhere in family life, but it's heaviest in the first year with a baby.
That's the chapter NewRoots is built for. It's where my attention is now.
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Most 3 AM arguments between new parents aren't about sleep.
They're about information. When was the last feed? Who's on? Did anyone check the diaper?
Two tired people, guessing.
A short thread on the handover problem.
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So I made two free things for exactly this moment.
The Fridge Log: a baby-care log and night-shift plan for a clearer handover.
The night shift calculator: try a night-duty split that accounts for feeding and early starts.
Both on the NewRoots site. No app needed.
It's personal too. For a while, my wife and I had a baby log that looked shared but wasn't syncing between our phones. I fixed it.
That's NewRoots: room for the baby, and for the people looking after them.
Free resources in bio.
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New parents: what's a job you didn't know existed until the baby came home?
Not the obvious ones. The tiny, invisible ones nobody thanks you for.
Reply with yours.
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It was never just about the baby. It was about the parents too: recovery, relationship, headspace.
That's why NewRoots puts baby tracking and room for you in one place.
The beta is close, iPhone first. Launch list in bio.
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No family nearby. Friends who say "let me know if you need anything." And no energy left to ask.
The No-Village Help Kit: ready-to-send messages and a practical menu of ways to help. Free on the NewRoots site, link in bio.
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Over a year of building NewRoots on the side. Day job: Salesforce solution architect. Home: two daughters, the youngest born this March.
Most of it got built in the gaps.
Now it's final setup before the beta. iPhone first.
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The mental load of a new baby isn't the big stuff.
It's knowing where the next size up is. That the clinic needs a call back. That someone's casserole dish has to go back.
One person usually holds all of it. Quietly.
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Somewhere in the first month, people stop asking how you are. They ask how the baby's sleeping.
You become the logistics behind someone else's wellbeing.
You still count. You don't have to do more to deserve a little care.
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What joining the NewRoots launch list means:
You're among the first to hear when the beta opens on iPhone. You get to use it with your own family. And I'll ask you for one thing: honest feedback.
That's the deal. Link in bio.
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If the night gets negotiated at 2 AM, it gets negotiated badly.
The night shift calculator on the NewRoots site lets you try a night-duty split that accounts for feeding and early starts. Free, no app needed.
Link in bio.
#newparents #dadlife #buildinpublic
3 AM. One of you is up with the baby. The other lies awake, unsure if they should be.
Nobody said who's on. Nobody remembers when the last feed was.
Two tired adults, both guessing. It's not a sleep problem. It's a handover problem.
#newparents #mentalload #buildinpublic
I built NewRoots for my own family first. It came out of the first year with our first daughter. My wife and I use it on our two phones.
Next, it goes to yours. Beta opens in the next few days, iPhone first. Launch list in bio.
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Before NewRoots, this account built Offload in public. Its beta got zero sign-ups.
The problem was real. I was aiming at the wrong chapter of it.
NewRoots is the same problem at its heaviest: the first year with a baby.
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Most baby apps track the baby. Feeds, naps, diapers, minutes.
Almost nothing tracks the person doing the feeding.
What I learned building for the other half of the first year. A thread.
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So NewRoots puts both in one place.
For the baby: feeds, sleep, diapers, growth, milestones.
For you: meal ideas, short movement, mood check-ins, moments of calm.
No guilt. No streak shame. You don't have to do more to deserve a little care.