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Explore themSee what's new on GitHubFrom a positive pregnancy test to a curious, mobile one-year-old.
A 12-step learning path. Follow it in order, or jump to what you need.
This path is for anyone bringing a baby home for the first time, whether you're still pregnant or a few sleepless weeks in already. It runs about 7 weeks at a few hours a week. It carries you from pregnancy through your baby's first birthday only; day-to-day toddler life, tantrums, potty training, picky eating, lives in the separate Toddler Years path. By the end you can prep for labor and recovery, troubleshoot feeding and sleep, recognize a mood disorder that needs real treatment, and childproof a home for a baby who's suddenly everywhere.
No prior experience needed. Start from zero.
Start here the day you get a positive test: trimester symptoms, prenatal visits, and a birth plan checklist carry you all the way through delivery.
Once the baby is home, feeding basics, safe sleep setup, and soothing techniques here turn the fog of the first weeks into a routine you can actually follow.
You can pack for the hospital, follow a birth plan, and handle feeding, diapering, and safe sleep without a manual in hand. Next up: the healing and feeding challenges that catch even prepared parents off guard.
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While you're running step 2's routine for the baby, your own body is healing on a separate timeline: bleeding, incision care, and the six-week visit are covered here so recovery doesn't blindside you.
This is where new parenthood clicks in an uncomfortable way: step 3 names baby blues as normal, but the fatigue and mood swings you're feeling could be a PMAD, not a personal failing, and that distinction is what gets one in five parents into treatment that actually helps.
Feeding basics from step 2 only scratch the surface: latch, milk supply, and pumping logistics get their own full treatment here, since this is where most early feeding struggles actually happen.
Here's the second thing that reframes everything: responding quickly to a crying baby doesn't spoil them, it builds the secure attachment that Bowlby and Ainsworth's research ties to lifelong emotional regulation.
You can track your own recovery timeline, spot a mood disorder that needs real treatment, and read your baby's feeding and bonding cues with real confidence; a quick flashcard review of steps 1 and 2 keeps the newborn basics fresh while you build on them. Next up: sleep, solid food, and tracking how fast they're growing.
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With feeding and bonding steady, sleep is next: this compares graduated and gentle methods so you can pick one that fits your baby's age and your own tolerance for crying.
Around six months a new milestone opens up: readiness signs, allergen introduction, and gagging-versus-choking here keep the move from milk to family food safe.
Check what you've been building since birth against real benchmarks: gross motor, language, and social-emotional milestones here flag when to celebrate and when to raise something at the pediatrician.
You can choose and stick with a sleep training approach, start solid foods safely, and tell which milestones are on track versus worth mentioning at a checkup. Next up: keeping a mobile baby safe and figuring out childcare.
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A baby who's rolling, crawling, and grabbing everything needs a different house than a newborn does: room-by-room childproofing and first-aid basics here keep the new mobility from ending in an ER visit.
Take this if parental leave is ending or you're weighing daycare, a nanny, or family care: quality indicators and red flags here matter more than any brand name on the door.
Everything from soothing a newborn in step 2 to reading their cues in step 6 comes together here: scripts, co-regulation, and repair-after-losing-your-cool turn what you've learned into daily habits you'll lean on well beyond this first year.
From a positive pregnancy test to a mobile, curious one-year-old, you can childproof a room, weigh a childcare option on real quality signals, and fall back on gentle-parenting scripts when things get hard: that steady, evidence-based toolkit is what the New Parent badge certifies.
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Finish every required step, at least 70% of them genuinely done (not skipped), to earn this badge and 500 XP.