What the cool parents are reading today: 
1. Turns out that new dads are just as likely to experience postpartum depression as moms. Unlike new moms though, it’s not the postpartum hormones messing everything up, it’s that “fathers are more susceptible to mental health problems as they take on a more active role in parenting,” according to one of the authors of a recent study.
2. Did you struggle/are you struggling to lose baby weight? Here’s a helpful guide of what not to do from the Hairpin’s wonderful Nicole Cliffe.
3. A new theory as to what causes autism: chemical cocktails. “It is likely not one bodily insult that’s driving up [autism] cases, but a number of contaminants and exposures acting in concert,” according to environmental writer Brita Belli.
