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A very tired parent holding two identically dressed babies in white organic cotton sleep suits

The Absurd Reality of Buying Newborn Outfits for the First Time

It's 4:13 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm actively wrestling a pair of miniature, stiff denim jeans onto a creature that has the structural integrity of a warm Yorkshire pudding. This was my grand introduction to the greatest myth of...

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A baby covered in orange sweet potato puree chewing on a flat silicone spoon

The sweet potato incident and the messy truth about infant spoons

There was sweet potato puree on the ceiling. I still don't fully understand the physics of how it got there, but there it was, a bright orange smear right next to the smoke detector in our Chicago apartment. My son...

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Toddler sitting on the floor next to an open cardboard box of Kianao baby products

Exposing the Real Job of a Brand Ambassador in the Baby World

I was sitting on my living room rug at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday, trying to bribe my screaming toddler with a half-eaten graham cracker so he would hold a wooden rattle for exactly three seconds. The natural...

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Messy stack of folded baby blankets and burp cloths on a nursery dresser

The Great Baby Blanket Confusion: What Are Receiving Blankets?

When I was pregnant with my oldest (bless his chaotic, fiercely independent heart), my mom told me I needed at least twenty flannel blankets because babies are fundamentally leaky creatures. Two days later, my mother-in-law handed me a stack of...

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Exhausted dad holding baby while scanning diaper QR code on smartphone

Data-Obsessed Dad Review: The Truth About the Pampers Club App

It's 3:14 AM, the ambient temperature in the nursery is exactly 68.5 degrees, and I've a small LED flashlight gripped firmly between my teeth. I'm trying to smooth out a crinkled plastic wrapper from a fresh sleeve of Swaddlers so...

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A messy family kitchen table with spilled coffee, toast, and baby feeding bowls.

The Sandwich Generation Survival Guide to the Adult Bib

I was wearing my husband Dave's faded Syracuse hoodieβ€”the one with the fraying cuffs that smells faintly of old garlic because he refuses to let me wash it on hotβ€”when the coffee went airborne. It was exactly 9:14 AM on...

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Toddler clothes scattered across a wooden nursery floor

Dear past Priya: The unapologetic guide to kinder kleider

You're currently pinned to the nursery floor. Your toddler is starfish-spread across the rug, screaming because his green pants feel too spicy today. You're sweating through your scrub top, twenty minutes late for your shift at Rush, staring at a...

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A tired mom changing a baby onesie during a blowout at night

3 AM Blowouts and the Brutal Truth About a Baby Onesie

It was three in the morning in our drafty Chicago apartment when the smell hit me. Not the standard sweet-sour milk smell, but a toxic, biological hazard level stench that wakes you from a dead sleep. I flipped on the...

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Tired mom holding organic cotton baby clothes and silicone teether

The Great Bath Time Scam: What To Actually Put On Infant Skin

I was standing in aisle 14 of Target at 8:47 PM on a Tuesday, wearing my husband’s paint-stained sweatpants and aggressively clutching a lukewarm oat milk latte. My phone was vibrating out of my hand with three different text threads....

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