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r/NewParents

540.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.1K upvotes, which works out to 2 per 1,000 members.

2peak upvotes per 1,000 members
540.7Kmembers
1.1Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
308posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Text 60% Question 40%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Sleep 68 Mental Health 31 Tips to Share 29 Feeding 24 Skills and Milestones 21 Product Reviews/Questions 20 Happy/Funny 19 Babies Being Babies 16 Childcare 15 Medical Advice 11

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I love my baby

↑ 1.1K 💬 96 text 2026

Why does everyone hate kids now?

↑ 754 💬 402 question 2026

Is $400 a week really the going rate for infant daycare now?

↑ 389 💬 1.4K question 2026

I took my 6 week old for a walk for the first time today and it ended in both of us crying.

↑ 337 💬 136 text 2026

Dear Diary (3 months old): How I cured my mum’s morning sleepiness in under 5 minutes.

↑ 331 💬 18 text 2026

How are y’all handling the, uh, everything?

↑ 207 💬 112 question 2026

Babies are dumb

↑ 194 💬 55 text 2026

They should make 'beer' hats for newborns.

↑ 172 💬 23 text 2026

Just go to sleep omg

↑ 162 💬 38 text 2026

Dear new parents who are also cat owners...

↑ 115 💬 65 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/NewParents, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/NewParents have?
r/NewParents has about 540.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 308 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.1K upvotes, which is 2 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NewParents?
"I love my baby" reached 1.1K upvotes and 96 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NewParents.
What subreddits are similar to r/NewParents?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/NewParents?
Of the posts we hold, 60% are text posts and 40% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NewParents?
Across 308 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (224 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (104 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (102 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/NewParents?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NewParents has 85 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 308 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NewParents, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.