DEFCON DAD

Your kid is the size of a grapefruit. When did you last hold a grapefruit? Your kid is the size of a 10-inch trout. Now we're talking. DEFCON DAD is the weekly pregnancy briefing for the dad who doesn't know his fruit sizes but knows his way around a garage. One briefing a week, week 4 to the day the kid shows up. Three screens. No feed, no account, nothing to scroll at 2 a.m. except this. THE COMPARISON A WWII hand grenade. A cast-iron skillet. A bald eagle. Real dimensions, real objects, and not one of them is a vegetable. THE BRIEFING WHAT'S HAPPENING: what the kid built this week, in plain English. FOR YOU: the one job that matters this week, and why. Not a checklist. Book the appointment. Bring the extra pillow. Run interference on the belly-touchers. Get your own whooping cough shot before you're the one holding the baby. You show up knowing what week it is and what she's dealing with. That's the whole job. It's a good job. THEMES Swap every week's object for a set built around what you're into: fishing, football, the garage, the nineties, rock and roll. Optional. The whole briefing is yours without one. Setup is one question, the due date. A notification when the week turns over. Free. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no data collected. Not the due date, not her name. Nothing. Built like a tool in the garage: does its job, never asks you anything. Not medical advice. That's what the appointments are for. This gets you to them knowing why. Dads, let's get you up to speed.