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New Baby What You Wishing For? The Brutal Truth About The First Year

I'm standing in my tiny, unventilated bathroom at 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in November, wearing a pair of mesh hospital underwear that I've somehow managed to launder and reuse because I refuse to let them go, holding my firstborn,...

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A Dad's Guide to Newborn Investment Accounts and Dictator Logic

Dear Marcus from six months ago, You're currently sitting on the floor of the nursery surrounded by three different W-2 forms, a half-eaten sleeve of stale saltines, and your phone open to a deeply unhinged Reddit thread about IRS Form...

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The $1200 Stroller Lie and What You Actually Need

I was standing in a high-end Dallas baby boutique, six months pregnant with my first, staring at a $1,400 stroller that looked like a sleek European spaceship while my husband nervously checked our checking account balance on his phone. The...

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Why Your Screaming Newborn Is Basically A Hairless Baby Toucan

I spent three solid months before my oldest was born painting his nursery the perfect shade of 'oatmeal' and buying tiny, stiff linen button-downs that cost more than my weekly grocery budget. My oldest kid is basically a walking cautionary...

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Note to past Priya: The truth about the baby toon and choking

Dear Priya from last November. You're currently staring at a bowl of mashed sweet potato and sweating through your scrubs. Your hands are shaking because ten minutes ago he choked. Or you thought he choked. He went red, his eyes...

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Why my timeline for a new baby sister is completely broken

I was staring at a plastic stick with two bright pink lines on our bathroom counter, right next to a half-chewed rice rusk that Leo, my 11-month-old, had abandoned to go fight the bath mat. My wife picked up the...

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Baby Sprinkle Invitations: Navigating Version 2.0

My mom texted me at 7:00 AM on a Tuesday to declare that asking for gifts for a second baby is "fundamentally tacky." Three hours later, my coworker Dave slapped my desk and announced I needed to bully our mutual...

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Surviving the Baby Sling Carrier When You Have Zero Coordination

I was standing in the kitchen at two in the afternoon, wearing yesterday's t-shirt and draped in five meters of stretchy jersey fabric, looking less like a modern father and more like a deeply depressed Roman senator. Twin A was...

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Did Kat Timpf Have Her Baby? A Brutally Honest Look At Her Birth

Listen, the biggest lie we tell pregnant women is that if you just buy the right organic nipple butter and write a color-coded birth plan, you'll glide into motherhood on a cloud of oxytocin. I used to stand in the...

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