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A frustrated mom looking at diaper prices on her phone while holding an active toddler in a grocery store.

How To Hunt Down Every Good Angebot Pampers Without Going Crazy

I'm currently staring at a giant cardboard box of size 2 diapers sitting in my garage that I bought in a sleep-deprived haze because the neon yellow sign at H-E-B told me it was a mega savings event. Spoiler alert:...

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Dear Past Marcus: The Skianzug Kinder Survival Guide I Wish I Had

Dear Marcus of exactly six months ago, currently staring blindly at a wall of synthetic winter gear at the REI in the Pearl District while Sarah texts you asking if you've found anything waterproof yet. I'm writing to you from...

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A tired parent holding a teething baby who is chewing on a silicone ring

The brutal truth about teething and surviving the midnight drool

My mother-in-law told me to rub raw honey on his swollen gums, completely ignoring the botulism risk. A mom at music class swore her infant popped four incisors overnight with zero tears because she rubbed expensive vanilla extract on his...

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Erschâpfter Vater hÀlt sabberndes Baby mit Silikon-Beißring

Wann zahnen Babys? Ein Überlebensbericht für übermüdete Eltern

Es ist 3:14 Uhr morgens an einem feuchtkalten Londoner Dienstag, und ich stehe mit einer halben, angefrorenen Bio-Karotte in unserer KΓΌche. Meine Tochter – eine HΓ€lfte meines zweijΓ€hrigen Zwillings-Doppelpacks, damals jedoch erst knapp sieben Monate alt – kaut wΓ€hrenddessen nicht...

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Toddler sitting on an organic cotton playmat next to natural fiber storage baskets

How to survive the kinderzimmer einrichten phase without losing it

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant when I sat on the bare floor of our second bedroom in Chicago and cried over the smell of a dresser. We had just assembled a suspiciously cheap piece of nursery furniture I bought online....

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Twin toddlers wearing stained white organic cotton t-shirts at a park

The Absolute Madness of Putting a White Baby Tee on an Infant

We're twenty minutes into what was supposed to be a civilized Sunday picnic in Regent's Park. I'm holding a lukewarm flat white, desperately trying to project an aura of calm competence. Florence and Matilda, my two-year-old twins, are wearing identical,...

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Exhausted mom in sweatpants checking the diaper of a crying baby at night

That 3 AM Nightmare: Surviving a Wunder Po bei Babys at Home

3:14 AM. A Tuesday. I'm standing in the nursery wearing Dave's ridiculously oversized Villanova sweatpants with a mysterious yogurt stain on the knee, and ten-month-old Maya is screaming like I'm trying to actively murder her. It wasn't her normal "I'm...

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A highly unamused toddler sitting on the floor wearing stiff boys dress pants

Why buying boys dress pants is a specific kind of modern torture

I'm currently wedged next to the sanitary bin in the disabled toilet of a twelfth-century Surrey church, sweating completely through my only clean wedding suit, attempting to wrestle a screaming two-year-old into a pair of miniature, fiercely rigid navy slacks....

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A very drooly baby aggressively chewing on a wooden fox teething ring

The truth about newborn teething rings and endless drool

"Just rub a little bit of whisky on her gums, that’s what we did with you," my dad suggested, watching Mabel gnaw furiously on her own fist at a Sunday roast. "No, you need a Baltic amber necklace, but only...

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