How I Survived The Hunt For A Baby Sitter Without Losing My Mind
It was 11:42 PM on a Tuesday and I was wearing Dave's oversized grey college sweatpants that had a questionable bleach stain on the left knee from a laundry incident we don't discuss. I was hunched over the kitchen island,...
Why Every Baby Stock Image Is Lying to You About Safe Sleep
I was sitting on the floor of Leo's nurseryβwhich, by the way, was painted this color called "Sea Salt" that ultimately just looked like a bruised vein in the wrong lightβsweating entirely through my third nursing bra of the day....
Why buying a baby snow suit is harder than hospital triage
My mother told me to wrap my son in three heavy wool blankets before taking him to the grocery store or he'd catch a chill and end up in the ICU, beta. My neighbor with the pristine neutral aesthetic told...
The Barefoot Myth and Why You Actually Need Baby Slippers
It was 2018, and I was standing in a ridiculously overpriced baby boutique in downtown Seattle wearing leggings that hadn't seen the inside of a washing machine in at least a week. I was holding my lukewarm vanilla latte in...
Why The Netflix Baby-Sitters Club Cast Changed My Parenting
It was exactly 7:43 PM on a Tuesday, I was wearing a fleece robe that smelled vaguely of sour milk and desperation, and my seven-year-old, Maya, was asking me why the girl on the TV was talking on a phone...
The Absolute Terror Of Feeding Your Baby Shrimp For The First Time
I was standing over the kitchen sink at exactly 8:14 AM on a Tuesday, wearing sweatpants that definitely had three-day-old oatmeal on the thigh, aggressively staring at a single, grey, frozen crustacean. My husband Mark was hovering over my shoulder...
The brutal truth about baby shower prizes your guests actually want
I was thirty-four weeks pregnant, sweating through a maternity dress in a stuffy Chicago living room, watching my auntie aggressively hand out neon pink loofahs to women in their mid-thirties. The air was thick with the smell of catered samosas...
The Only Baby Shower Invitation Template Advice You Actually Need
Listen, past Priya. It's me, you from six months in the future. You're sitting in the dark at the kitchen island, staring at 47 browser tabs of mint green cardstock options, and your chai went cold an hour ago. You're...
The Brutal Truth About What to Buy for a Baby Shower
I'm currently sitting on my living room floor peeling dried hot glue off my thumb, trying to make a makeshift diaper cake look less like a leaning tower of trash, and thinking about the sheer amount of money I wasted...