Fatherhood

Oh, and you have to feed them and stuff so they survive to adulthood.

CNN legal analyst Jeff Toobin was in court Wednesday for a case of his own, according to the New York Daily News.

Toobin, 49, appeared in Manhattan Family Court along with rumored former lover Casey Greenfield, the 36-year-old daughter of CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield. Greenfield gave birth to a baby boy last spring, and though she wouldn't say then, the Daily News reports she now claims Toobin is the father.

From the Daily News:

The ex-lovers barely spoke in the waiting area before joining their lawyers behind closed doors with a court referee to hash out custody and money issues.

Toobin, who glumly sat several rows away from Casey Greenfield before the hearing, is said to have privately admitted to fathering the child, believed to have been born last summer, sources said.

A friend of Greenfield's said the outspoken Toobin has resisted putting his name on the infant's birth certificate and hasn't given his former lover the child support she's requested.

Both Toobin and Greenfield declined to comment on the court appearance to the Daily News, as did their lawyers.

Toobin has two children with wife Amy McIntosh, who he married in 1986. The Daily News reports he was wearing his wedding ring in court.

this is pretty cool: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19169-bumpology-men-go-through-pregnancy-too.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=life

Couvade flips me out!

I've definitely gained some weight but that's mostly due to drastically increased ice cream consumption in our household over the past nine months.

I have gained more weight than my daughter has in the last 2.5 yrs (she's just over 1.5). I've put on 30 lbs and she's gone from zero to 26, so percantage-wise she wins. Mostly due to y'know, healthier lifestyle, schedule mealtimes and being slightly underweight, and also to living close to an amazing BBQ place with daily lunch specials that I can smell from my front door and also to have low self-control.

I've been a stay-at-home dad for about 9 months now and have LOST weight...don't know how much but lifting and carrying and holding a 20+ lb baby all day and playing with him and rolling around is definitely more activity than I got sitting behind a desk all day.

I gained about 10 pounds during my wife's pregnancy, but have lost 30 pounds since she was born last August. I think I can attribute this to drinking less, eating healthier, and chasing/holding/carrying the baby all the time like some dude describes above.

A millionaire sportscaster (who, I can assure you, doesn't know shit about baseball) sounds off on paternity leave:

“One day [of paternity leave] I understand. And in the old days they didn’t do that. But one day, go see the baby be born and come back. You’re a Major League Baseball player. You can hire a nurse to take care of the baby if your wife needs help,” he said.

“What are you going to do? I mean you are going to sit there and look at your wife in a hospital bed for two days?” he continued. “Your wife doesn’t need your help the first couple of days; you know that you’re not doing much the first couple days with the baby that was just born.”

After urging other people to be terrible fathers, Francesca explained that he was back at work right after his own children were born. “For a baseball player. You take a day, all right. Back in the lineup the next day! What are you doing?” he said. “I guarantee you are not sitting there holding your wife’s hand. … I had three kids. … I was at the birth and was back to work the next day. I didn’t see any reason not to be working. [My son] Harrison was born at nine in the morning. I worked that day. What was I gonna do, sit with my wife in the hospital?”

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/03/sports_radio_host_mike_francesca_celebrates_being_a_terrible_dad_calls_paternity_leave_a_scam/