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The Truth About the Naked Baby Eco Trend (And Why We Tried It)

When I brought Leo home from the hospital four years ago, I received three distinct pieces of advice within a 48-hour window. My mother-in-law, Carol, stood in my living room holding a pair of microscopic fleece booties, insisting that if...

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When Katie And Bill Consult Lawyer About Luna's Baby Custody

I'm up to my elbows in matched toddler socksβ€”which is to say, exactly three pairs and forty singlesβ€”when I hear the TV blaring from the living room. My mom is visiting to help out, and she's got The Bold and...

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What the Clairo Nepo Baby Drama Taught Me About Parenting

The internet wants you to believe the only way to give your kid a leg up in life is to be a multi-millionaire marketing executive who plays golf with record label CEOs. I know this because at 6:13 AM this...

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A frustrated dad looking at his phone at 3 AM trying to decipher baby gear search terms.

Searching for the Teen Baby GT: A Letter to My Clueless Past Self

The screen brightness on my phone is currently burning a hole through my retinas at 3:14 AM. The nursery thermostat reads exactly 68.4 degrees, which Sarah insists is the good temperature for infant sleep, though the small human currently vibrating...

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Why That Horrifying Teeth Grinding Sound Your Baby Makes Is Fine

It was exactly 2:14 in the morning when I first heard it. A rhythmic, grating sound cutting through the otherwise silent nursery, like someone slowly crushing chalk with a mortar and pestle, or perhaps a tiny, furious geologist trying to...

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Surviving Newborn Sleep and Marriage Without Losing Your Mind

My mother-in-law was standing in my kitchen holding a frozen cabbage leaf, telling me to just put the baby in a laundry basket in the closet if he wouldn't stop crying. My best friend, who lives in a totally different...

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Tired father looking suspiciously at a padded baby nest on the living room floor.

The Great Padded Donut Deception: A Father's Baby Nest Confession

I was standing in the middle of our cramped London flat at 3:17 a.m., holding what looked like an oversized, over-engineered dog bed, desperately trying to remember which twin I had just fed. Maya was wailing from the Moses basket,...

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A messy toddler eating shredded pork from a suction plate at a family barbecue

Surviving the Chaos of Smoking Baby Back Ribs With Toddlers

It was 4:13 PM on the Thursday before Memorial Day, and I was wearing my absolute favorite, completely impractical white linen top from Zara. I don't know why I wore white. It was an act of extreme hubris. My husband,...

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Jess folding organic cotton Linxia baby clothes on a messy living room couch

Raising A Linxia Baby: The Unfiltered Truth About Newborn Life

I was standing in the Target baby aisle at 9 PM on a Tuesday, completely dead inside, while my oldest son Jackson screamed against my chest in a carrier that I was probably wearing wrong. He was three weeks old....

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