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The 3 AM Panic Over an Imaginary Baby Wolf and Real Spiders

It’s 3:14 AM and I’m standing in the hallway wearing my husband’s stained college sweatpants, entirely unable to process what's happening. The baby monitor is just blinking this angry little green light at me, and through the static, I can...

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Baby You Got Something In Your Nose: A Toddler Survival Guide

I was standing at the kitchen sink yesterday, frantically trying to scrub crusted oatmeal off a plastic dinosaur plate while three loads of laundry soured in the washing machine. I had the radio playing, and I was actually singing the...

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A deeply exhausted British dad standing in a baby store surrounded by premium prams and screaming twins.

Dear Past Tom: What To Know Before You Walk Into A Bambi Baby Store

You're currently sitting in the driver's seat of the Ford Focus, sweating quite profoundly through your favorite grey jumper, staring through the glass front of the bambi baby store like it's an active crime scene you've been asked to clean...

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Singing 'Be My Baby' Lyrics At 3AM Saved My Paternal Sanity

It’s 3:14 AM on a damp Tuesday in Walthamstow, and my twin girls have decided to form a heavy metal screaming choir. Florence is handling the high-pitched falsetto, while Matilda is providing a guttural, terrifying bass that frankly shouldn't be...

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A Late Night Deep Dive Into Pop Culture and Sensory Needs

Dear Marcus of exactly 182 days ago, It's currently 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. The nursery thermostat reads exactly 68.4 degrees, which Sarah insists is the best thermal environment, though the humidity has drifted to 48%, so who even knows...

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The Messy Truth About That Cry Baby Doll You're Thinking of Buying

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently standing in the middle of Target, heavily pregnant with number three, staring at a wall of wide-eyed, plastic toys in fuzzy animal onesies while convincing yourself this is the magic bullet for...

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Exhausted mom holding a fussing newborn in a dimly lit living room with the TV glowing.

Dear Jess: Surviving Colic and Why We Watch Cry-Baby 1990 Now

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the cold linoleum of the laundry room floor at 3:14 AM. The dryer is tumbling a single wet towel just to generate enough white noise to drown out the ringing...

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Why Searching For That Baby John Cartoon Sent Me Into A Panic

My mother-in-law swore by propping Leo up with an iPad the second he got fussy, my sister acted like letting a 3D animated pig sing a nursery rhyme would literally dissolve his frontal lobe, and my husband Dave just muttered...

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Hosting a Baby in Bloom Baby Shower: A Dad's Survival Guide

You're currently bleeding on a £40 bunch of imported eucalyptus. I know this because I'm you, writing from exactly six months in the future, and I still have the tiny, irritating scar on my left index finger to prove it....

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