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The Only Survival Gear You Actually Need for a Newborn

I was standing in the middle of aisle four with that stupid plastic scanning gun in my hand, watching my husband happily zap a $400 wipe warmer. I had to physically pry the scanner out of his grip. My brain...

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The Honest Truth About Needing a Baby Play Pen

My mother-in-law told me a baby play pen is a cage that stunts gross motor skills and ruins a child's natural curiosity. My neighbor, on the other hand, told me she leaves her daughter in one for four hours a...

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Capturing the Perfect Baby Picture Without Losing Your Mind

There's a highly specific, sweat-drenched panic that occurs on day nine of a newborn’s life. You're holding your iPhone 12 at a precarious angle over a pile of blankets, your central heating is cranked to thirty degrees, and you're desperately...

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A confused mom looking at tiny baby mittens while holding a cold coffee

Dear Past Me: The Ugly, Honest Truth About Useless Baby Mittens

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're standing in your sister's nursery, surrounded by a mountain of crumpled tissue paper and tiny, impossibly small socks. You're holding a little mesh bag of baby m—wait, what are these even called?...

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Exhausted mom rocking her baby in a dark nursery singing a lullaby.

The Messy Truth About Singing Your Baby to Sleep Every Night

I'm currently sitting on my back porch in the middle of nowhere Texas, trying to untangle a massive spool of macrame cord for an Etsy order while my youngest is strapped to my chest, completely passed out. But getting him...

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The Happiest Baby Guide for Exhausted, Sleep-Deprived Parents

It was 3:17 AM in the dead of a humid Texas summer, and I was standing in my living room wearing a nursing tank that smelled strongly of sour milk, doing frantic deep knee bends while aggressively hissing into my...

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A simple non-wifi baby monitor on a wooden nursery dresser next to a half-empty coffee mug

The Wi-Fi Paranoia and Why We Chose a Simple Monitor

I was seven months pregnant with Maya, standing in the middle of Target aisle 14 in my black maternity leggings that were completely pilling at the thighs, clutching a lukewarm iced coffee like it was a life preserver. My phone...

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How Many Babies Are Born a Day: The Honest Math Behind Birth

My mother-in-law told me infants only arrive during full moons. My old charge nurse at Northwestern swore Tuesday mornings were a cursed tidal wave of inductions. And the cashier at Trader Joe's confidently informed me, while bagging my frozen samosas,...

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Tired mom holding a baby in a nursery with a cool mist humidifier running nearby

Finding the Best Humidifier for Baby: A Letter to My Past Self

Dear Jess from last November. Right now, you're standing in the middle of the nursery at 3 AM holding a crusty, dinosaur-shaped plastic water tank that smells faintly of wet dog, crying because your six-month-old sounds like a tiny pug...

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