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Worried dad checking newborn baby head soft spot safely

The absolute panic of your newborn's soft spot (and why it's fine)

I was sweating profusely in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon, holding a tiny striped jumper like it was an unexploded World War II bomb I had just unearthed in the garden. Twin A lay on the changing mat, completely...

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Dad covered in purple alginate powder holding a squirming twin

Why a baby cast and an indie film is a terrible Friday night

It's 8:14 PM on a Friday, and my left hand is currently bonded to a Tupperware container of rapidly hardening purple alginate, while Rachel Sennott has a full-blown panic attack on my television screen. My wife is desperately trying to...

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Dad holding an 11-month-old baby who is reaching for his smartphone

The Ping Requests: Why Your Infant Knows When You Grab The Device

It's 3:17 AM here in Portland. The rain is doing that annoying misty thing against the window where it doesn't quite sound like rain, just a low-level static. I've my 11-month-old daughter in my left arm. I've a bottle of...

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A tired dad holding a baby while looking at his smartphone in a dark room.

Why That Megan Fox Post-Baby Appearance Made Me Lose My Mind

The glowing numbers on the microwave read 3:14 AM, which I know because I had just logged a massive diaper blowout into our shared baby app using my left thumb while suspending my screaming four-month-old over the sink with my...

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Exhausted dad trying to support two wobbly twin baby heads at once

The Terrifying Bobblehead Phase: Babies Holding Their Heads Up

My mother-in-law was holding Florence, who was precisely eighteen days old at the time, when she decided to gesture wildly with both hands while telling a long-winded story about a rogue fox in her garden. For three horrifying seconds, Florence’s...

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A tired dad looking at a laptop while holding a baby

What An Overdue Celebrity Baby Taught My Debugging Brain

The time was 3:14 AM, and the only sound in our Portland apartment was the rhythmic, aggressive squeak of a purple yoga ball against the hardwood floor. My wife was violently bouncing on it, trying to physically dislodge our stubbornly...

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Tired dad looking up the viral baby naming trend while holding an 11-month-old.

The Kelce Taylor Baby Trend and What Postpartum Really Takes

My phone was vibrating violently against the armrest while I attempted to balance a screaming two-week-old on my forearm like a very angry, leaky football. On the cracked screen were three unread messages offering wildly contradictory instructions on how to...

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A tired dad holding a baby in a dark nursery singing lullabies.

I Love You Baby and If It's Quite Alright: A Portland Dad's Log

The humidifier is casting this eerie blue glow across the floorboards, it's 3:14 AM, and I'm currently swaying like a broken grandfather clock. My brain's cache is completely empty, and the only file I can seem to retrieve from my...

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Messy mom holding a coffee mug next to a baby monitor displaying VOX mode settings.

Why I Stopped Listening to Every Tiny Nursery Sound

It was 2:14 AM and I was sitting on the edge of the bathtub in Dave’s college sweatpantsβ€”the ones with the unidentified bleach stain on the left kneeβ€”staring at a glowing plastic screen like it held the secrets to the...

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