Surviving The RS Virus With A Baby: What I Wish I Knew Sooner
I was wearing my husbandβs college track sweatpantsβthe ones with the embarrassing hole right at the kneeβand a t-shirt that literally smelled like sour milk and desperation. It was 3:14 AM on a freezing Tuesday in November. Maya was four...
Why the she gon call me baby boo meme is stressing moms out
My mother-in-law told me the twitching was a severe vitamin D deficiency. The millennial dad at the park said it was a highly sophisticated piece of Gen Alpha performance art. My pediatrician just sighed, rubbed his temples, and mumbled something...
That 3 AM "Sherry Baby" Google Search That Actually Saved My Sanity
It was 3:14 AM and I was wearing a pair of gray sweatpants that had a mysterious crusty stain on the left knee which could have been spit-up or maybe hummus from two days ago. The biggest lie they tell...
My Utterly Chaotic, Milk-Stained Guide To Sign Language For Babies
Itβs 5:43 AM on a Tuesday in November. I'm wearing my husband Daveβs stained gray sweatpants and a maternity tank top that Iβm pretty sure has been inside-out since Sunday. Maya is exactly eight months and two days old, and...
Surviving the Messy Truth of the Suki Waterhouse Baby Era
I was exactly four days postpartum with my oldest, wedged awkwardly between the toilet and the bathtub in my rural Texas house, trying to angle my phone so the giant hospital-grade pad wouldn't show in the mirror. I had seen...
That Accidental Internet Search Disaster & Why We're Going Unplugged
I was sitting in my worn-out nursing chair at two in the morning, practically cross-eyed with exhaustion, balancing my phone on my sleeping three-month-old's forehead while I tried to stay awake. My teenage niece had been at the house earlier,...
The Totally Unfiltered Truth About Raising a Newborn Baby Girl
I spent the first forty-eight hours of my oldest daughter's life absolutely terrified I was going to break her lady parts. Iβm just gonna be real with youβthe hospital nurses were wiping her down like it was no big deal,...
Why The Nestle Baby Formula Drama Has Me Completely Stressed
My sister was sitting on my kitchen floor yesterday, absolutely sobbing over a tin of white powder while her six-week-old screamed in a bouncy seat, and honestly, I've never felt more seen. I was standing there in my yoga pants...
A London Dad's Nepo Baby Definition: Toddlers and Privilege
We're twenty-two minutes into the great Tupperware standoff of a rainy Tuesday morning. Maya is sitting on the rug, red-faced, grunting, and aggressively trying to pry the blue plastic lid off her container of blueberries. It's taking her forever, and...