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Was Ed Gein A Babysitter? True Crime Myths & Real Childcare Fears

I was standing in my laundry room on Tuesday, elbow-deep in a pile of spit-up stained onesies, when my phone completely melted down with contradictory advice about leaving my kids. My mom called first, full of anxiety, telling me I...

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A Letter to My Past Self: How to Watch Baby Boy Chaos Unfold

You're currently sitting on the beige rug in the nursery, holding a half-melted bag of frozen Trader Joe's peas to your left eyebrow. Your five-month-old just executed what I can only describe as a tactical headbutt masquerading as a hug....

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Why My Kid Packed A Box After Watching we baby bears

I was standing in the kitchen folding my seventh load of laundry on a Tuesday afternoon when I heard the unmistakable, aggressive sound of packing tape ripping off the roll. I dropped a pile of mismatched socks, walked into the...

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Why the Weighted Sleep Sack Trend Terrified Me Out of My Wits

It’s 3:17 am, the exact hour when your brain stops processing logic and starts throwing your debit card at whichever Instagram ad promises the most impossible lie. Twin B had been doing this awful, rhythmic screeching thing for three solid...

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What the Wendy Ortiz baby daddy drama gets right about parenting

The screen brightness on my phone is turned all the way down to a dull gray. Outside, the Chicago winter wind is doing that thing where it sounds like a dying animal against the windowpanes. It's two in the morning....

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A tired parent's perspective on when babies finally learn to hold their own feeding bottle.

When Do Babies Finally Start Holding Their Own Bottles?

Dear Tom of eighteen months ago. You're currently sitting on the IKEA armchair that smells faintly of sour milk and big defeat, a twin wedged in the crook of each arm. You're trying to balance two plastic bottles using your...

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Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs: A Warning To My Panicked Past Self

Dear Tom of six months ago. You're currently standing in the meat aisle of the Tesco on Cromwell Road, holding a massive, bloody slab of pork while one of your twin daughters screams because she dropped a slightly damp rice...

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Raising a Modern Indian Baby Without Losing Your Absolute Mind

I was elbow-deep in a pile of spit-up-stained laundry when my sister-in-law Priya FaceTimed me in absolute tears, holding a yellow tape measure up to a massive, heavily carved wooden cradle her mother-in-law had just shipped all the way from...

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In Which Week Baby Gender is Developed: My Ultrasound Data Log

I was literally holding my phone up to the ultrasound monitor at week twelve, trying to overlay a digital protractor app onto the blurry gray static on the screen. "If the angle of the genital tubercle is greater than 30...

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