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My Entirely Accidental Education on the Yamaha Baby Grand Piano
I was literally on my hands and knees on the living room rug, wearing those gray Lululemons with the hole in the left knee that my husband Dave absolutely hates, holding a bright yellow Stanley tape measure while my third...
Yellow Watery Diarrhea in Babies: What I Learned at 3 AM
2:14 AM. Chicago winter. The sound from the bassinet wasn't a cry, it was a wet, unmistakable explosion. I turned on the dim nursery lamp and found my previously pristine infant lying in what looked like a puddle of melted...
The 3 AM baby doll lingerie search trap and safe sleep reality
My thumb hovered over the phone screen while my two-month-old used my left shoulder as a mattress. It was three in the morning. I was trying to remember if I gave him his baby d drops, while simultaneously trying to...
What Nobody Tells You About the Clapping Milestone
I was sitting cross-legged on my living room rug, completely covered in pulverized Cheerios and dog hair, aggressively patting my hands together while chanting "yay!" like a deranged cheerleader. My oldest son, Tucker, who was about ten months old at...
Exactly When Can You Tell The Sex Of A Baby? The Real Timeline
Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting on the cold hexagonal tiles of the downstairs half-bath at 11:42 PM. You're wearing Dave's oversized college sweatpants with the bleach stain on the knee, and you're hyperventilating into a...
The truth about when can baby sleep with blanket without panic
It was February, 3:14 AM, and I was wearing Dave's oversized college hoodie that smelled faintly of old garlic and desperation, intensely staring at the glowing green screen of the baby monitor while my lukewarm coffee slowly separated in its...
When Can Babies Start Drinking Water: A Nurse's Honest Guide
July in Chicago is an absolute swamp. The humidity hits four hundred percent, the air feels like soup, and everyone loses their minds. When my daughter was two months old, we had a family barbecue during one of these heat...
When Can a Baby Sleep With a Blanket? (The Honest Truth)
It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in late November. I was standing in my hallway in a pair of stained fleece sweatpants, clutching a breathtaking, hand-knit merino wool heirloom blanket to my chest like a shield, staring at the...
What's a Nepo Baby? Raising Hard Workers in a Privileged World
It was ninety-eight degrees in July, smelling heavily of cheap sunscreen and chlorine, when I realized I had created a monster. My four-year-old, Beau, was clinging to the edge of the community pool screaming bloody murder while the other kids...