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I Love You Baby and If It's Quite Alright: A Portland Dad's Log
The humidifier is casting this eerie blue glow across the floorboards, it's 3:14 AM, and I'm currently swaying like a broken grandfather clock. My brain's cache is completely empty, and the only file I can seem to retrieve from my...
How to Reduce Fever in Baby Naturally Without Losing Your Mind
It was exactly 2:14 AM when my middle child, Carter, rolled over into my arm and felt like a literal baked potato fresh out of the oven. I'm talking radiating heat. I sat up in the dark, frantically feeling his...
The Real Truth About How to Make a Baby Survive the First Year
I was standing in the kitchen at 4:13 a.m., wearing a dressing gown that smelled distinctly of sour milk, frantically pumping my daughter's tiny legs like she was participating in the Tour de France. My wife was hunched over the...
How to Get Rid of Baby Acne When Your Newborn Looks 15
I'm sitting in the low light of our London flat at three in the morning, holding Florence in one arm and frantically trying to keep a rogue stream of milk from finding its way into her neck creases, when I...
How to Get Baby Nessie in Fisch (Without Ruining Your Weekend)
My living room currently sounds like a server room during a distributed denial-of-service attack, except the alarms are just my wife's nine-year-old nephew, Leo, aggressively clicking a mouse, while my eleven-month-old daughter aggressively hits a wooden block against the coffee...
A Pediatric Nurse's Honest Guide to a Safe Bassinet for Baby
My C-section incision felt like a literal line of fire. It was 3 a.m. on night four of being a mother, and my son was wailing from the depths of a wicker nightmare. My mother-in-law had brought over her family...
The Boho Decor Disaster: Why Baby's Breath Flowers and Toddlers Clash
I was halfway through positioning a wicker basket that cost more than my first car when I noticed one of the twins chewing thoughtfully on what looked like a dried twig. We were attempting a DIY first-birthday photoshoot in our...
The Real Baby's Day Out Cast Needs a Lot More Than Movie Magic
My mother-in-law told me to just toss him in the grocery cart basket with a knitted blanket and call it a day. The teenage checkout clerk at HEB confidently informed me that babies shouldn't leave the house until they're at...
The Truth About the Digital Dinosaur Taking Over My Living Room
It's 6:15 AM on a Tuesday. I'm standing in the kitchen wearing Dave's old college sweatpants—the grey ones with a literal hole in the left knee—and holding my third cup of coffee, which is already lukewarm. Leo, my four-year-old, is...