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Baby Aspirin During Pregnancy: What My OB Actually Said

My mother-in-law told me eating papaya would cause an immediate miscarriage. A holistic momfluencer on TikTok swore that any over-the-counter painkiller would permanently alter my unborn child's DNA. Then my OB-GYN sat across from me at fourteen weeks, slid a...

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What Thalidomide Babies Taught Us About The Placenta Firewall

I was standing in aisle 14 of the Hawthorne Fred Meyer at 9 PM on a Tuesday, aggressively squinting at the back of a ginger supplement bottle while my pregnant wife dry-heaved in the passenger seat of our Subaru. She...

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Dr Boss is My Baby Daddy: The Real Workplace Pregnancy Guide

My mother told me to buy oversized scrubs and pretend nothing was happening until my water broke on the linoleum. My charge nurse pulled me into a supply closet and said to demand light duty the second the second line...

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What to wear to a baby shower when nothing fits (a survival guide)

Sarah was wedged inside a floral maternity dress that had, seemingly overnight, transformed from breezy summer elegance into a highly restrictive sausage casing. It was mid-July, she was thirty-two weeks pregnant with the twins, and our own baby shower was...

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When Can You Find Out Gender Of Baby? A Twin Dad's Honest Guide

I was standing in our galley kitchen on a miserable Tuesday afternoon, holding a plastic cup of my wife’s morning urine in one hand and a slightly expired box of baking soda in the other. The internet—that infinite void of...

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My 3 AM breakdown over a 700-year-old pregnancy prediction chart

Listen, the bathroom tiles were freezing against my bare legs, and my phone screen was turned down to that barely-visible dim setting so I wouldn't wake my husband. I was exactly seven weeks pregnant. I felt like I had swallowed...

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Am I Really Having The Biggest Baby Ever Born? My Honest Take

There I was at 38 weeks pregnant, standing in line at the local H-E-B just praying my water wouldn't break near the seasonal aisle, when the cashier took one look at my belly and told me I needed to stop...

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Predicting Your Baby's Face: The Truth About AI Image Generators

I'm currently sitting at my kitchen island with a laundry basket full of mismatched toddler socks on my left, and three text messages glaring at me from my phone on my right, all offering completely contradictory advice about how to...

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The 2024 Chinese Gender Calendar: My Costly First Trimester Mistake

When I was six weeks pregnant with my oldest, I was standing in my kitchen eating a dry piece of toast, trying to hold down my breakfast, when the unsolicited advice started rolling in. My mom walked in, took one...

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