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r/NewParents

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

552K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
552Kmembers
6Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
612posts 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.

64% 36%
Text 64% Question 36%

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 131 Mental Health 61 Feeding 58 Tips to Share 55 Product Reviews/Questions 43 Babies Being Babies 42 Skills and Milestones 32 Happy/Funny 30 Childcare 23 Illness/Injuries 22

What the ceiling looks like

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

Yesterday I had the best day of my life

↑ 6K 💬 161 text 2026

The US hates families

↑ 2K 💬 349 text 2026

I love my baby

↑ 1.1K 💬 96 text 2026

Why does everyone hate kids now?

↑ 754 💬 402 question 2026

I have postpartum depression and I accidentally hurt my infant

↑ 419 💬 187 text 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

Tomorrow my baby will probably be diagnosed with CP

↑ 335 💬 90 text 2026

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

↑ 331 💬 18 text 2026

That first laugh hit like crack

↑ 317 💬 12 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 552K members. ViralHunt has tracked 612 of its posts; the biggest reached 6K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NewParents?
"Yesterday I had the best day of my life" reached 6K upvotes and 161 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, 64% are text posts and 36% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NewParents?
Across 612 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 08:00 UTC (2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (248 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (100 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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 110 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 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.