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Hitchhiker Baby Name 4pk: A 3 AM Naming Meltdown

It was 3:17 AM. I was wearing my husband's faded college sweatpants that had a mysterious, vaguely crusty yogurt stain on the left knee because doing laundry at seven months pregnant felt like an Olympic sport I had not trained...

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Ryder'ss Anna Claire Clouds Baby Gemini: What I Actually Know Now

It’s 2:14 PM on a Tuesday, and I'm currently watching my youngest—my little May-born force of nature—try to put a fuzzy adult sock on the golden retriever's left ear. Meanwhile, I've three custom orders for my Etsy shop that I’m...

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Reality Check: What Love Is Blind's Megan Got Right About Postpartum

"Sleep when the infant sleeps," my grandmother told me at my baby shower, sipping her sweet tea. "Hire a postpartum doula for fifty dollars an hour to do your laundry," said a girl I went to college with who now...

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Surviving The Man Dog Baby Triangle: A New Dad's Guide To Chaos

Pixel's nose is shoved so far under the bathroom door he's practically snorting the bathmat, while eleven-month-old Leo is in the tub trying to eat a soapy washcloth. I'm currently typing this one-handed on my phone, damp from a recent...

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Is the mamaroo baby swing Worth It? A Tired Mom's True Story

It was exactly 3:14 AM. I was sitting on the edge of the master bathtub because the loud hum of the bathroom exhaust fan was the only thing drowning out the sound of my firstborn screaming. My Etsy shop orders...

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Dear past me: The windi baby butt whistle saved my sanity

Dear past me from exactly six months ago. You're currently sitting on the cold concrete floor of the garage on a random Tuesday afternoon. You're surrounded by three cardboard boxes aggressively labeled "DONATE" in black Sharpie, and you're holding a...

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When is a baby no longer a newborn? The great potato awakening

I spent my first month as a father obsessively checking an app on my phone that promised to tell me precisely when the dreaded neonate phase would end. Don't do this. Don't set a calendar alert for four weeks post-delivery...

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When Do Babies Sleep 7pm to 7am? A Tired Mom's Truth

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in mid-November, and I was standing in the middle of the nursery wearing a pair of maternity sweatpants that had a questionable yogurt stain on the thigh, rage-scrolling Instagram with my thumb while...

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Wait What Whiskey Is Balcones Baby Blue Doing In The Nursery

I was sitting on my living room floor surrounded by crumpled pastel tissue paper and half-opened gift bags from my baby shower. My mother-in-law was perched on the sofa keeping a literal ledger of who bought what so the thank-you...

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