Why Cheap Theme Park Outfits Crashed My Baby's Operating System
I'm currently standing completely motionless outside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, holding an eleven-month-old who's vibrating with pure, unadulterated rage. The humidity is sitting at what feels like two hundred percent, my shirt is glued to my spine, and...
That Time My Winter Layering Mistake Caused a Heat Rash on Baby
It was 3 AM in mid-January, pitch black outside, and the wind was howling against our drafty Texas farmhouse windows. I unzipped my youngest sonβs fleece footie pajamasβthe absurdly thick ones shaped like a brown bear with little ears on...
The Heaviest Baby Ever Born: Ultrasound Lies And My Giant Kid
I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant with Leo, sitting on crinkly white paper in a freezing cold exam room, wearing a pair of gray maternity leggings that I had definitely spilled iced coffee on earlier that morning. My ultrasound tech, a...
The Real Story Behind Buying Safe Baby Clothes Without Going Broke
It was three in the morning back in 2019, and I was sitting on the cracked linoleum of our laundry room floor with a pair of orange craft scissors, literally cutting a polyester sleep-and-play off my screaming firstborn. Leo was...
Exactly How Many Babies Are Born in the US Each Year?
It was 4:12 a.m. on a particularly bleak Tuesday when I found myself sliding down a demographic rabbit hole. Maya, who's technically twin A but behaves aggressively like a middle child, had decided that sleep was a social construct she...
How to Relieve Constipation in Newborn Babies Quickly
Dear Sarah from six months ago, It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. You're sitting on the edge of the guest bed wearing that awful, bleach-stained grey hoodie from college, holding your sister's four-week-old son, Liam. She's in the hospital recovering...
The NICU, My Sanity, And The Wild History Of The Coney Island Baby
3:17 AM. St. Jude's NICU. November. I was wearing my husband Dave's oversized grey hoodie that smelled distinctly like stale Dunkin Donuts and absolute panic, just sitting there staring at the translucent skin of my son Leo's tiny chest rising...
The reality of raising a CDH baby when you have absolutely no idea ...
When we got the twenty-week anomaly scan results for the twins, I received exactly three pieces of advice about what to do next. My mother-in-law told us to play Mozart to the bump to encourage "internal harmony," a woman in...
Why we panic over California Baby and 3 AM skin rashes
Three in the morning on a Tuesday in January. The radiator in my Chicago apartment is clanking like an asthmatic tractor. My toddler is doing the dreaded scratch-dance against the crib rails, sounding like someone dragging sandpaper across a chalkboard....