“People don’t talk about this, but this is way more common than we ever knew.”

That’s our first guest talking about his wife’s four episodes and counting of mastitis, a breast infection that has had her in and out of the hospital since giving birth last year and left Dad at home learning the ropes of solo parenting a little earlier than planned.

In this inaugural episode of the *Manhattan and a Milk* podcast, your hosts discuss how to love others and yourself while carrying a shit-stained blanket from the arrival gate to baggage claim.

Among other things.

We drink Manhattans, of course, and discuss our experience with breast infections, sleep training, and the long-term benefits of learning to parent solo in crisis mode.

Plus: How to handle the relentless onslaught of bad advice from the persistently, tirelessly well-intentioned people surrounding every young parent.