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Confused mom looking at baby products on the Target app while drinking coffee

How to Actually Do a Target Baby Registry Search Without Tears

When I was about seven months pregnant with Maya, three different people gave me three completely contradictory pieces of advice about how getting people to buy us newborn gear actually worked. My mother-in-law insisted that guests just walk up to...

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The Truth About Raising Kids and a Baby Ferret

I was standing in my kitchen at 6:15 AM wearing Dave's oversized college hoodie that smells vaguely of sour milk, staring at my phone while my coffee dripped agonizingly slowly into the pot. I had stumbled down a TikTok rabbit...

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An exhausted mom holding a melting iced coffee while her toddler points at a small farm animal.

My Complete Meltdown Over Petting Zoos and a Tiny Baby Donkey

It's exactly 10:14 AM on a Tuesday and I'm currently wedged between a rusty chain-link fence and a toddler who's vibrating with the kind of feral energy that usually precedes a trip to urgent care. My four-year-old, Leo, is violently...

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Exhausted mother holding a screaming infant in a dark nursery

When your sweet newborn suddenly turns into an actual baby demon

It was exactly 6:43 PM on a Tuesday in November. The radiators in our Chicago apartment were clanking the way they always do when the wind picks up. My sweet three-month-old daughter, who had spent the entire morning peacefully cooing...

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Mom standing in rural kitchen looking at safe baby products and first aid kits

Why Everything TV Taught You About Baby CPR is Dead Wrong

I was standing at my kitchen island yesterday, quartering grapes for my three-year-old with the kind of frantic, sweaty precision you only develop after your firstborn nearly checked out over a piece of hidden plastic. I had some medical drama...

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Tom's kitchen counter dominated by bottles and the large baby brezza machine

Note to past Tom: Getting the baby brezza sterilizer sorted

Dear Tom of six months ago, It's currently 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I know exactly what you're doing. You're standing in the kitchen in your oversized grey joggers, staring bleary-eyed into a rolling boil of tap water on...

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Small spotted wild kitten hiding in suburban backyard bushes

Found A Baby Bobcat In Your Yard? Read This First

My husband came through the back door holding a dirty garden towel. He looked weirdly proud of himself. Inside the towel was a hissing, spotted furball about the size of a baked potato. He told me he saved a stray...

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A vintage pediatrician scale measuring average baby weight at birth

Navigating the Average Baby Weight at Birth: A Mom's Honest Guide

I was sitting in Dr. Sarah’s office with my firstborn, completely drenched in postpartum sweats, staring at that cold metal infant scale like it was a judge handing down a life sentence. The crinkly paper on the exam table was...

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Mom testing warm bath water on her wrist before washing her baby

The Nightly Bubble Bath Lie and Finding Safe Soap for Babies

I was standing in the middle of a Target aisle at eight o'clock at night with spit-up down my back, staring blankly at a giant wall of purple, lavender-scented bottles promising me the world. My firstborn was three months old,...

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