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Stressed mom holding a baby and watching soap operas on the living room couch

Why the Days of Our Lives Tate's Baby Drama Sent Me Spiraling

I was knee-deep in a mountain of mismatched toddler socks last Tuesday, nursing my four-month-old like a human pacifier while trying to peel tiny vinyl letters off a batch of bachelorette tumblers for my Etsy shop, when my guilty pleasure...

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Devon Hodge Brenda's Got a Baby: The True Story

Whatever you do, absolutely don't pull out your phone at 2:13 AM while your four-year-old’s foot is pressed directly against your windpipe and search for true stories behind 90s rap songs. Because you'll, like me, end up sobbing into a...

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Exhausted mom sitting on the floor with cold coffee while her baby sleeps on a bamboo blanket.

Why The Go Baby Justin Bieber Song Is Exactly What Moms Need

My mother-in-law told me to "sleep when the baby sleeps" while giving my messy, laundry-covered living room this highly specific, terrifying side-eye. The hospital lactation consultant, a woman whose hands smelled violently of industrial sanitizer, instructed me to feed on...

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A sleeping newborn baby tucked safely away from the camera in a covered stroller.

What the Patrick Mahomes Baby Taught Me About Surviving Three

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the floor of our laundry room, crying over a mountain of unmatched tiny socks while your two toddlers use your Etsy shipping boxes as a literal wrestling ring in the...

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Exhausted dad staring blankly while holding a crying infant in a dark room.

The 3 AM Truth About Crying and Shaking Baby Syndrome

It was 3:14 on a Tuesday morning in November, and the rain was lashing against the single-glazed window of our flat in London, but I couldn’t hear it over the sound of my own teeth grinding. I was standing in...

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A tired father holding twin babies while a stranger talks to them

The Bizarre Lies She Told My Baby About My Pre-Parenting Life

I watched in absolute horror as my old university friend Fiona, wearing a leather jacket that smelled faintly of stale vape smoke and regret, leaned directly into the pram and started rewriting my twenties. We were in a Costa Coffee...

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A mother holding her premature baby in the NICU while looking at her phone

The truth about naming your kid Mia and the digital footprint night...

Listen. You're sitting in the dark right now, the blue light from your phone illuminating that tiny, sleeping face against your chest. Your thumb is hovering over the Instagram post button. You've spent twenty minutes crafting the perfect caption with...

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Exhausted dad typing on a laptop with one hand while an 11-month-old baby sleeps on his chest

Lil Baby All On Me: Surviving The Intense Velcro Infant Phase

I tried the heating pad trick first. You know the oneβ€”you warm up the crib mattress so when you lower the sleeping infant onto the sheets, they don't detect a temperature drop and sound the alarm. I even wore the...

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London dad holding two toddlers while looking exhausted but vaguely hopeful.

The Kylie Jenner Baby Daddy Setup: A 3 AM Letter To Myself

You’re currently hiding in the downstairs loo, aren't you? It’s 3:14 AM, the bathroom tiles are freezing through your socks, and you’ve locked the door because the twins are finally asleep after a three-hour screaming match about who gets to...

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