[ A PLAYBOOK FOR THE FIRST 90 DAYS ]
Congratulations on the baby.
Now, about everything else.
Figure out how your household will actually run once the baby gets here.
The stroller is researched. The car seat is installed. The registry has 147 items. All of that is gear. The rest is harder to register for, like the hour a 3 a.m. feed can take or the paycheck that can come back lighter after leave.
Baby books tell you about the baby. Registries tell you what to buy.
[ WHAT’S INSIDE ]
The New Parent Playbook makes the work around newborn life easier to see and prepare for. A few of the Plays inside, and the moment each one is for:
[ THE BOOK ]
The whole book, sorted by the moment you'll need each part.
The New Parent Playbook covers preparation through the first 90 days, plus the money, childcare and return-to-work decisions that start there. Read it in order before the baby comes. Once the baby is here, open it to the Play for what's happening.
Start from where you are
Choose the stretch you're in, from before birth through the months after, and what needs attention. The list narrows to the Plays for that stretch, and each one opens by naming the situation it's for.
Read it straight through
The Book view keeps every chapter in order and holds your place on the device you're reading on.
Keep the ones you’ll need again
Save any Play to come back to, or send one to whoever is helping you, with the situation it's for attached.
The New Parent Playbook
The onboarding your new role deserves.
$29
one payment
The Playbook covers the practical work of running a household with a new baby. Medical questions belong with your own pediatrician, lactation consultant or other qualified provider.
[ HOW THE BOOK WORKS ]
A working plan you can change
The book is built around one model, the New Parent Operating Model. It’s a simple structure for a household absorbing the work of taking care of a newborn.
PART 1: PRINCIPLES
Decide the non‑negotiables early.
A few beliefs you settle ahead of time, so each hard call isn't a fresh debate at the worst possible hour.
PART 2: OWNERSHIP
Every job has an owner.
Clarity about who handles what, where that clarity helps. Some jobs need an owner. Others need a decision, a boundary or outside help.
PART 3: CHECKPOINTS
Revising is the method.
A time you set in advance to ask what's working, on your own or with someone else, before a plan quietly stops being run.
[ THE AUTHOR ]
I had the gear. I needed a system.
I did what capable adults do before a major transition. I researched, I planned, I bought the gear. I saved dozens of Instagram posts that I wanted to come back to but never did.
I was exhausted from decision-making and I was tired of getting contradictory advice from social media people certain they were right. Information was everywhere. The structure was not.
So I documented what made our household easier to run. The “systems” that held, the plans we scrapped, the baby gear that earned its counterspace. That became The New Parent Playbook.
I'm writing as a parent who kept notes, not an expert. Your baby won't be mine. The goal is a stronger starting point, not one right way to do the job.
Savannah Bartell
Author, The New Parent Playbook
[ BEFORE YOU BUY ]
Questions people ask first
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No. It's written for one reader. If someone else is part of your household or support, you can bring them the parts that apply, but nobody else has to read it.
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Plenty of the pieces are, spread across classes, feeds, forums and other parents, and usually found after the problem shows up. The Playbook puts the work in front of you earlier, says what can wait and makes a call where one is useful.
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You don't have to read it cover to cover. Every Play stands on its own and starts with the situation it's for, so you can open the one you need and close it again.
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The book separates what you can prepare now from what has to wait for your actual baby, and it builds in when to revisit a plan that stops fitting.
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No. It's practical guidance for running the household, drawn from lived experience. Medical questions belong with your pediatrician, OB or lactation consultant, and the book says so where it matters.
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The full book, organized so you can read it in order or jump to a Play, for one payment. You can read it on your phone or laptop.
[ THE NEW PARENT PLAYBOOK ]
Because “you’ll figure it out” is not a plan
Give yourself a stronger starting point for newborn life.
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