Man vs. Baby

I absolutely love this book. As the mother of a 6 month old little boy, I can relate so hard. Matt is freakin' hilarious and everything he says about parenting is SO TRUE. This is the most honest parenting book I've ever read. From figuring out who gets stuck with the next poopy diaper to trying to dress a squirmy baby to installing the car seat, it was all oh so familiar to me. Having a baby is at once the hardest and most hilarious thing we've ever done. Yes, we're exhausted sometimes, but you have to be able to see the humor in it all. Can Matt and Lyns please come hang out with us and let our babies have a play date?

The book is hilarious! I knew exactly what the author meant abt first time parenting. I laughed throughout the whole book.

What started out as a late-night ramble turned into one great book. I love reading parenting stories, and the author does a great job balancing the heartfelt with the hilarious. I found myself interrupting my husband's own reading of another book to read passages of this book out loud.

MAN VS. BABY by Matt Coyne, for those of us who have children, humorously reminds us what we went through when our kids were babies. For those who have yet to have children, I think Coyne might confirm some people's thoughts that they shouldn't have little demons who make their lives infinitely more complicated and messy, but for most Coyne leaves the reader with a sense of enlightenment and happiness that while all of the trails and challenges parenthood of a baby presents, there is something wonderful about connecting, learning and growing as a family.
Coyne describes how this book was born; he would post, blog-style, about his trails as parent and so many people enjoyed it that he took all those thoughts and refined and organized them into a book. He structures the book into logically sections, like "Sleep", "Feeding", "Milestones" and so on and Coyne touches on the actual advice given in these areas that he stumbled across, but then applies the bumbling reality he faced with his own son, Charlie. To say that Coyne is self-deprecating is an understatement, he constantly,hilariously belittles himself and all the ways he did things wrong as a father to a newborn. He also recognizes, towards the end of the book, that there is nothing bad about doing the wrong thing if the end goal is to always try to the right thing.
Really a fun read, I laughed out loud several times. Being that we all are either parents or know people that are parents, I think everyone laugh with and love Matt Coyne's MAN VS. BABY.