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Playing Bread Baby I'm-a Want You Fixed Our 3AM Sleep Crisis

It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm writing this to youβ€”which is to say, me, six months agoβ€”while our son screams into my left clavicle like a dial-up modem failing to connect. I know exactly where you're right now...

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New Baby What You Wishing For? The Brutal Truth About The First Year

I'm standing in my tiny, unventilated bathroom at 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in November, wearing a pair of mesh hospital underwear that I've somehow managed to launder and reuse because I refuse to let them go, holding my firstborn,...

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Parenting a Baby Wario: When Your Newborn is High-Needs

I'm standing in the dark hallway at 3:14 AM, bouncing on my heels at exactly 60 beats per minute, because any deviation in rhythm causes the 11-pound human in my arms to reboot into a full-scale meltdown. Outside, the Portland...

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Why the Days of Our Lives Tate's Baby Drama Sent Me Spiraling

I was knee-deep in a mountain of mismatched toddler socks last Tuesday, nursing my four-month-old like a human pacifier while trying to peel tiny vinyl letters off a batch of bachelorette tumblers for my Etsy shop, when my guilty pleasure...

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Devon Hodge Brenda's Got a Baby: The True Story

Whatever you do, absolutely don't pull out your phone at 2:13 AM while your four-year-old’s foot is pressed directly against your windpipe and search for true stories behind 90s rap songs. Because you'll, like me, end up sobbing into a...

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Why The Go Baby Justin Bieber Song Is Exactly What Moms Need

My mother-in-law told me to "sleep when the baby sleeps" while giving my messy, laundry-covered living room this highly specific, terrifying side-eye. The hospital lactation consultant, a woman whose hands smelled violently of industrial sanitizer, instructed me to feed on...

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What the Patrick Mahomes Baby Taught Me About Surviving Three

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the floor of our laundry room, crying over a mountain of unmatched tiny socks while your two toddlers use your Etsy shipping boxes as a literal wrestling ring in the...

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The 3 AM Truth About Crying and Shaking Baby Syndrome

It was 3:14 on a Tuesday morning in November, and the rain was lashing against the single-glazed window of our flat in London, but I couldn’t hear it over the sound of my own teeth grinding. I was standing in...

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The Bizarre Lies She Told My Baby About My Pre-Parenting Life

I watched in absolute horror as my old university friend Fiona, wearing a leather jacket that smelled faintly of stale vape smoke and regret, leaned directly into the pram and started rewriting my twenties. We were in a Costa Coffee...

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