About Us

As my husband Tyler and I embarked on having our son, we had a number of fears that we understood were typical of new parents. Will he ever sleep? Will I ever sleep? Will I really know when he’s hungry or when he needs to be changed? But in other ways, we felt like we were taking the path less traveled as one of just a handful of gay couples in our neighborhood exploring parenthood. Our straight and gay friends alike were curious about the details of surrogacy and many of our families and mentors were ecstatic but amazed that we could have a kid at all. We expected all of this and to be honest relished it—it felt like everyone was really along for our journey. What we maybe feared most was not the sleepless nights and the dirty diapers, but the less traveled path becoming lonely. We are proud of the predominantly gay friend group and community we built in Boston and we didn’t want to lose that. Did having a kid mean we had to replace Ptown with lower down the Cape and attend Sunday tea only vicariously through Instagram? Of course there would be sacrifices, but just in case we might lose the gay chapter completely, we had ourselves a hot girl summer before we had to buckle down into parenthood. To our surprise, we started meeting more and more likeminded gay dads and their awesome kids. We shared surrogacy stories, adoption ups and downs, sleep training tips, and a collective fear that brunch was a thing of the past. Bottles started as a formal way of bringing more dads into the fold. The mission is simple: Brunch with dads and kids once a month. We’ve happily realized that we are far from trailblazers, and that we didn’t have to lose our social life once we started a family. Our group has an awesome diversity in dads and kiddos, and we hope you join us at an upcoming event!

 

Mikey