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A pregnant mother looking stressed over a laptop spreadsheet

Why we threw out the traditional gendered baby name playbook

I was thirty-two weeks pregnant, sitting at the kitchen island at three in the morning, aggressively pointing out cells in a Google Sheet. My husband was asleep. The spreadsheet was simply titled The Child. Row forty-seven was the name Emerson....

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A frustrated dad looking at a blurry 12-week ultrasound scan on his phone

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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Confessions of dressing my toddler in the teenage dirtbag trend

2:14 AM. The bedroom smells faintly of sour milk and desperation. The Wheatus audio loops on my screen for the forty-seventh time. I watch another exhausted mother transition from a photo of her wearing studded belts and smeared black eyeliner...

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An 11-month-old baby crawling on the living room floor looking for a dropped cracker.

Surviving The Baby Kitty Phase When Your Kid Decides To Meow

Sarah’s Honda hadn't even cleared the driveway before the transformation occurred. I was standing in the kitchen, tracking the ambient room temperature on the thermostat (a solid 68 degrees), when I heard a sound that I can only describe as...

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Dear Exhausted Mom: The Massive Lie About Sleeping Like a Baby

Dear Jess from six months ago, You’re currently sitting cross-legged on the linoleum floor of the laundry room at 3:14 AM, trying to fold a mountain of onesies with one hand while desperately swaying a screaming newborn in your other...

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Jess rocking her baby in a dark nursery while singing a lullaby.

How "Hush Little Baby Don't You Cry" Saved My Sanity Tonight

It was July in Texas, which means it was about 102 degrees at midnight, and our window AC unit was making a sound like a dying tractor. My oldest—who's now four and currently serving as a daily cautionary tale for...

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When the 'he was molested as a baby boy polo g song' trend hit

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're sitting on the living room rug right now watching your son play with a wooden block. You've got your phone in your left hand. You're about to post that video of him smearing...

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Stressed mom in a minivan listening to her toddler ask a million questions.

Where is Lil Baby From? Answering Your Kid's Hardest Questions

I was wrestling a shopping cart with a violently shaking left wheel through the Target clearance aisle, trying to decide if I really needed another wire basket to hold the junk I haven't sorted since Christmas, when my four-year-old yelled...

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When To Have Baby Shower: A Mom's Blunt Guide To Timing It

I was standing in the middle of Aisle 4 at Target with a registry scanner gun in my hand, sweating profusely in a maternity cardigan that was clearly lying about being breathable, when my mom called to demand a date...

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