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Dear Past Me: Please Put Down That Baby Percentile Calculator

Dear Jess from six months ago, You're currently sitting on the faded living room rug with a floppy yellow sewing tape measure in one hand and your phone in the other, furiously typing slightly inaccurate measurements into a baby percentile...

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The Theater Beta Test: Bringing an 11-Month-Old to the Movies

I was standing under the dripping marquee of the Hollywood Theatre here in Portland, staring at the decibel meter app on my Apple Watch while my 11-month-old daughter Maya actively tried to chew off the zipper of my rain jacket....

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The Only Real Baby Feeding Chart You Will Actually Ever Need

I was standing in the kitchen at 3:14 AM wearing a milk-stained nursing bra and one mismatched sock, sobbing over a laminated spreadsheet taped to my freezer door. My oldest was screaming in his bassinet down the hall, and I...

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The 2 AM Baby Chicken Meltdown: Purees, Poultry, and My Sanity

There I was at 2:13 AM on a Tuesday, standing barefoot in my kitchen wearing a stained t-shirt, staring down at a shattered glass Tupperware container of pureed baby chicken that I had just spent two hours boiling and blending....

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The Baby Bottle Pop Hack That Actually Works (And What Fails)

Dear Sarah from six months ago, You're currently sitting on the cold kitchen tiles at 2:14 AM wearing that grey Def Leppard t-shirt—the one with the hole in the left armpit that smells vaguely like old French roast and pure...

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Why The Simone Biles Baby Rumors Make Me Rethink Family Boundaries

My mother-in-law was hovering a forkful of heavily buttered mashed potatoes in mid-air when she casually asked if we had started trying for "the sequel" yet, which is a genuinely wild thing to ask someone who hasn't slept for a...

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The Absolute Messy Truth About Finding Unique Baby Names in 2024

I was thirty-two weeks pregnant, sitting at the nurse station at Northwestern Memorial, staring blankly at a patient chart. The poor kid had a name with five consecutive consonants and a silent q. My shift was ending, my ankles looked...

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The Brutally Honest Truth About Buying an UPPAbaby Stroller

My husband was holding an iced coffee that was dripping condensation all over a display of breast pumps, staring at the price tag like it had just insulted his ancestors. We were standing in the middle of Buy Buy Baby—RIP...

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When Do Babies Say Their First Word? My Honest Mom Truth

I was sitting cross-legged on our living room rug, shoving a laminated flashcard of an apple into my oldest son’s face while he actively tried to eat the corner of it. He was thirteen months old. The girl down the...

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