About DadPulse

DadPulse is an independent site for fathers who like a straight answer. Becoming a dad throws a lot of numbers at you at once — a due date, a growth percentile, a vaccine schedule, the cost of the years ahead — and most of them are buried in pamphlets, forum threads, or apps that want your email first. We build small, focused tools that do that arithmetic in the open, for free, and keep the explanation on the same page.

What you’ll find here

Everything on DadPulse falls into three buckets:

• Eight calculators. A due date calculator (last period, conception, or IVF transfer), a feeding calculator, a growth percentile tracker, a CDC milestone checklist viewer, a link to CDC’s vaccination schedule, a sleep-by-age guide with safe sleep facts, a baby name generator, and a cost-of-raising-a-child calculator. Each one runs entirely in your browser and shows its working.
• Guides. Plain-language write-ups on feeding, sleep, growth, and the day-to-day of new-dad life — the context that turns a number into a decision. You can browse them in the journal or through the Learn hub.
• A museum. The Museum of Childhood & Family is a curated, illustrated wander through the toys, milestones, everyday objects, and art of raising children across history — a change of pace from the calculators.

How the tools are built

Every calculator starts from a published, widely used method rather than a rule of thumb we invented. The due date tool uses Naegele’s rule (280 days from the last menstrual period, adjusted for conception or embryo-transfer dating). The feeding tool shows the American Academy of Pediatrics’ published daily formula average for comparison only, never an amount per bottle. Growth percentiles are computed from the chart CDC recommends for the age (the WHO standards under 2, the CDC charts from 2), from the LMS files CDC publishes; the vaccination tool links CDC’s official schedule, dated, and lists no doses of its own; the cost estimate uses USDA’s own 2015 figures by income group, region, and number of children. Where a figure comes from a specific standard, we say so on the tool’s own page.

The tools are deterministic and self-contained: the same inputs always produce the same result, the maths happens on your device, and nothing you type is sent to a server or stored. That is a deliberate design choice — a due date or a weight is nobody’s business but yours.

What DadPulse is — and isn’t

DadPulse is a general-information resource, and it is supported by advertising. It is not a medical service. The calculators give estimates to help you plan and ask better questions; they do not diagnose anything, they cannot see your particular child, and they are no substitute for your pediatrician, doctor, or midwife. Every pregnancy and every kid is different — when a result and your doctor disagree, your doctor wins. We are also not affiliated with the CDC, WHO, USDA, or any health authority; we simply build tools on top of their published, public guidance.

Get in touch

Found a bug, spotted a number that looks off, or have an idea for a tool we should build? That feedback is genuinely how the site gets better — tell us about it.