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Mom holding a floral baby blanket instead of real baby breath flowers

The Truth About Baby's Breath Flowers at Your Shower

I was standing in the middle of my living room at seven in the morning, eight months pregnant with my oldest, aggressively sniffing my own sofa cushions. My mom was in the kitchen cutting crusts off pimento cheese sandwiches for...

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A tired dad holding a coffee mug while looking at a baby monitor screen

The Unfiltered Reality of the Kat Timpf Baby News

It was 3:14 AM. The baby monitor on my nightstand was glowing a menacing green, reading exactly 68.2 degrees, and I was doomscrolling Twitter in that hazy, caffeinated purgatory between sleep cycles. I think the biggest myth about celebrity baby...

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Dear Past Priya: The Dutch Baby Recipe That Saved Our Weekends

Dear Priya of six months ago. You're currently standing in front of a slightly warped non-stick pan at 6:15 AM on a Saturday. The Chicago winter wind is rattling the kitchen window. You're holding a spatula in one hand and...

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A confused dad looking at a baby monitor while holding a folded baby blanket

What Nobody Tells You About Your Baby's Breath

When we brought Leo home from the hospital eleven months ago, I received exactly three pieces of contradictory advice about his respiratory system within a forty-eight-hour window. My mother told me to hold a tiny compact mirror under his nose...

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A pile of discarded rigid infant sneakers next to a spilled cup of coffee on a rug.

The Truth About Baby Shoes: A Letter To My Clueless Past Self

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. You're currently standing in the clearance aisle at Nordstrom Rack at like, 2:15 PM on a Tuesday, wearing those black leggings with the dried yogurt stain on the left knee, aggressively holding a...

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Baby covered in mashed sweet potato sitting in a high chair

The blackberry incident and the truth about baby led weaning

Picture this. I put my six-month-old in a pristine, white outfit for his very first taste of solid food. I handed him a single, perfectly ripe blackberry. I thought it would be a delicate, photogenic moment to share with my...

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Frustrated dad trying to fold a massive baby stroller in the rain outside a coffee shop.

The V1.0 Stroller Bug: Why My First Hardware Purchase Failed

It's 43 degrees, pouring that specific sideways Portland rain, and I'm violently kicking the back left wheel of a $900 piece of baby gear while my wife Sarah watches from the passenger seat of our Honda Civic. This was my...

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A tired mom holding a crying baby while talking on the phone with a boomer parent

The Reality Of Raising Kids And Baby Boomers

There I was on a Tuesday afternoon, up to my elbows in puréed peas, trying to keep the twins from using our poor golden retriever as a step stool, when my mom walked through the back door holding a drop-side...

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A tired mom holding a coffee while her baby chews on a wooden teething toy

The Truth About When Your Baby Will Actually Start Talking

It was late 2018, and I was sitting cross-legged on a primary-colored foam puzzle mat in a community center basement that smelled faintly of bleached diapers and absolute despair. I was wearing yoga pants that had definitely never seen the...

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