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Did Ed Gein Kill The Baby Sitter? A Dad's Late-Night Search

11:43 PM. The glow of the television is casting a sickly blue light across our living room, illuminating an abandoned silicone teething ring and a half-drank bottle of formula. Sarah is asleep on the couch, her head resting at an...

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The Truth About That December 18th Beanie Baby From Your Mom

My mom lugged the giant, opaque Rubbermaid tub through my front door right as I was trying to unlatch a screaming newborn from my chest, kicking off her shoes and announcing that she had finally found my inheritance. It was...

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Why Most Baby Carriers Fail Dads and How We Finally Fixed It

Listen, I thought I was being a supportive, eco-conscious wife when I bought us a matching organic linen ring sling. It was a brisk April morning in Chicago, and I stood on our front porch watching Amit in the driveway....

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The truth about that Jenna baby nude photo uproar

My mother-in-law swore my baby needed three layers of wool at all times or he would catch a draft and perish instantly. A lactation consultant in a fluorescent hospital basement told me skin-to-skin meant I shouldn't wear a top for...

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Taylor Swift And Baby That's Show Business For You: A Mom's Take

There's this massive, steaming pile of a myth out there that the second they put a squirming, screaming newborn on your chest in the hospital, your brain just instantly deletes all pop culture knowledge to make room for the lyrics...

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The 3 AM Nostalgia Spiral and the January 10th Beanie Baby

I was wearing my husband Dave's college sweatpants—the ones with the mysterious bleach hole near the left knee—balancing a lukewarm mug of dark roast on my nursing pillow, while frantically refreshing an auction site on my phone. My left breast...

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Finding the Ideal Humidity for Baby: A Letter to My Past Self

It's exactly fourteen minutes past three in the morning, and you're currently standing in the center of the girls’ bedroom in just your boxer shorts, clutching a damp muslin cloth like a surrender flag. You're staring at a cheap digital...

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Humphrey the Beanie Baby For One Crossword: Toy Safety Guide

I was standing at my kitchen island at 6:30 this morning, elbow-deep in shipping labels for my Etsy shop and desperately trying to drink my coffee before it hit room temperature, when my phone buzzed. It was a text from...

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The https://nudostar.tv pami baby Search Trap Every Parent Must Fix

I'm just gonna be real with you right out of the gate. There's this massive, ridiculous myth going around our generation of parents that if you just slap an iPad in "Kids Mode" and tell your toddler to search for...

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