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Exhausted mom holding a sleeping newborn baby in a dimly lit nursery room

"Baby Please" Go To Sleep: My Messy Fourth Trimester Survival Guide

My mother-in-law told me to put a scoop of rice cereal in the nighttime bottle at two weeks old so the baby would sleep. The hospital lactation consultant told me if I even looked at a silicone pacifier I'd ruin...

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A dad sitting on the grass at a London baby park with twin infants.

The Baby Park Survival Guide for Chronically Tired UK Parents

I'm currently crouched in the damp, questionable mulch of our local playground, forming a frantic human barricade around two tiny, drool-covered infants. To my left, a feral four-year-old is hurtling past wielding a half-eaten breadstick like a medieval javelin. To...

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The Real Deal on Baby Name Meanings Without Losing Your Mind

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, sweating through a maternity tank top in the middle of July, when the great naming summit occurred in my living room. My mom looked me dead in the eye and said I needed to pick...

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Exhausted mom drinking coffee while baby plays on a wooden play mat in a modern living room.

The Ultimate Play Mat Baby Survival Guide For Exhausted Parents

I'm sitting cross-legged on my faded West Elm rug. It’s a Tuesday morning in 2017, I'm wearing black maternity leggings that I aggressively refuse to retire even though Maya is four months old, and I'm staring at a flashing, screeching,...

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A Late-Night Letter to Myself Before Baby Number Three Arrives

I see you sitting there in the dark. It's 2:14 AM, your giant eight-months-pregnant belly is hopelessly wedged into the armrests of the nursery glider, and the blue light from your phone screen is illuminating the tired bags under your...

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Tired mom standing next to a grey Orbit baby stroller holding a coffee

The Brutally Honest Truth About the Orbit Baby Stroller System

It was raining, obviously. I was standing in the parking lot of the Trader Joe’s on 4th Street, wearing yoga pants that hadn’t actually seen a yoga mat since sometime in 2017. Maya was strapped into her car seat screaming...

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Orbit Baby G5 Stroller: A Letter to My Exhausted Past Self

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently standing in the Jewel-Osco parking lot on Southport. The wind is doing that thing where it physically hurts your face. Your C-section incision feels like it's unzipping, and you're contorting your spine...

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Tired mom holding a sleeping baby outside a loud party barn

Surviving Rick James Give It To Me Baby At A Texas Barn Wedding

I was elbow-deep in a lukewarm plate of wedding brisket when the DJ decided it was time to pivot from the polite dinner music directly into the heavy hitters. You know the exact moment I’m talking about. The twinkle lights...

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Tired dad holding his 11-month-old in a linen ring sling baby carrier in Portland.

The Ring Sling Baby Carrier: Debugging My Tactical Gear Fail

I was standing by the open door of our so-called baby car, getting rained on, holding what looked like the harness system for a parachute jump. It was a highly engineered, military-grade baby carrier. I had researched it for weeks....

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