24. And finally, “My best friend is an ER nurse, and she once told me about a patient who completely shattered her ‘seen-it-all’ mentality. A middle-aged man came in with mysterious, worsening abdominal pain. Scans showed a strange shadow near his intestine, but nothing concrete. During exploratory surgery, they found a fully intact, rusted Hot Wheels car lodged in his…

The number of mom-to-be celebrations that take place are endless—from over-the-top gender reveal extravaganzas to elaborate baby showers—but for some reason, many often fail at fawning over the fathers and those to be. (While writing this, Word even flagged that I made a mistake in writing “fatherhood” and suggested “motherhood”…