When Can Babies Start Drinking Water: A Nurse's Honest Guide
July in Chicago is an absolute swamp. The humidity hits four hundred percent, the air feels like soup, and everyone loses their minds. When my daughter was two months old, we had a family barbecue during one of these heat...
What's a Nepo Baby? Raising Hard Workers in a Privileged World
It was ninety-eight degrees in July, smelling heavily of cheap sunscreen and chlorine, when I realized I had created a monster. My four-year-old, Beau, was clinging to the edge of the community pool screaming bloody murder while the other kids...
What is Jaundice in Babies? Surviving the Tiny Satsuma Phase
It was day three with the twins, and I was standing by our bedroom window in the bleak gray wash of a London November afternoon, holding Florence up to the light like a counterfeit twenty-pound note. She was asleep, completely...
Why Teething Doesn't Cause High Temps (And Other 2 AM Truths)
I was sitting on my living room floor at two in the morning surrounded by half-packed Etsy orders when my oldest, Wyatt, started doing that high-pitched, dolphin-screech cry that shoots straight to your spinal cord. I picked him up and...
The Ugly Truth: What Is An Anchor Baby And Why The Myth Hurts
My auntie Sheila told me last Thanksgiving that getting a green card is as easy as dropping a newborn on American soil. Two days later, a charge nurse in the pediatric ICU complained that half our beds were taken up...
What is a Baby Deer Called? (A Dad's Woodland Survival Guide)
Richmond Park is a very specific kind of purgatory at six-fourteen in the morning in late spring. The grass is entirely composed of freezing mud, the air is thick with that distinctly British drizzle that doesn't actually look like rain...
The Baby Brezza Formula Reality Check for Sleep-Deprived Dads
I'm standing in the kitchen at 3:17 AM in a pair of grey jogging bottoms that have seen much better days, desperately trying to count to six. Just the number six. But when you've twin two-year-old girls—who were, at the...
Debugging the Baby Brezza Bottle Sterilizer: An Honest Dad Review
At 3:14 AM on a rainy Tuesday, I was standing over a pot of violently boiling water with a pair of silicone salad tongs, trying to fish out a breast pump flange without melting my fingerprints off. My wife was...
The Generational Divide: Parenting With the Baby Boom Crowd
It was 2:14 PM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in my kitchen wearing a pair of maternity leggings that I had definitely spilled oat milk on three days prior, clutching a mug of coffee that had been reheated...