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A chaotic minivan backseat featuring a premium nuna baby car seat surrounded by crushed goldfish crackers.

Is Nuna Baby Gear Worth the Hype? A Mom of Three Tells All

It was 102 degrees in late August, the kind of oppressive rural Texas heat that makes the air look wavy, and I was sobbing in the gravel driveway of our house. I was fighting a hand-me-down car seat that my...

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Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby: A Letter To My Past Self

Dear Jess from six months ago, You're currently sitting in that squeaky wooden rocking chair, staring at the peeling paint on the window sill because it's 3:14 AM and the baby finally closed his eyes. You just blindly typed a...

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The Baby Heart Rate Gender Myth: Twin Dad Survives The Scan

The room at Guy’s Hospital was aggressively dim, smelling faintly of antibacterial wipes and the specific, cold terror of impending parenthood. My wife was lying on the examination table with a generous dollop of freezing blue gel smeared across her...

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What Nobody Tells You About The Weird Belly Button Phase

I was standing in my kitchen staring at a newborn who wouldn't stop screaming, sweating completely through my cheap nursing tank, while getting three entirely different sets of instructions from the women in my life. My mama was digging in...

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What the baby icon method actually looks like at 3 AM

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in late November. The wind was howling off Lake Michigan, rattling the thin windows of our Chicago apartment, but I could barely hear it over the sound of my six-week-old son screaming. He...

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A tired mom holding a baby wearing noise canceling earmuffs at a loud wedding reception.

Baby J DJ Drama: Surviving Loud Wedding Dance Floors

I was huddled in the damp corner of a rustic wedding barn outside Austin, vibrating. And I don't mean figuratively. The bass from the DJ's speakers was physically shaking the cheap folding chair I was sitting on while I desperately...

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What Every Parent Needs to Know About the 'Baby Jeeter' Scare

I was on my hands and knees under my younger brother Tyler’s incredibly ugly leather sofa, fishing out a rogue handful of cheerios that had somehow become cemented in golden retriever hair, when I saw it. A brightly colored, tiny...

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Letter To Myself About The Baby Jogger City Mini GT2

Dear Marcus from six months ago. You're currently standing in the middle of a baby store aisle, sweating in your gray hoodie, trying to mentally compute tire diameters while staring at a wall of black canvas. You look ridiculous. Just...

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Confused dad looking at a smartphone while holding an 11-month-old baby.

The Accidental Chaos of Searching for Joker Baby Stuff

At 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, I tried to optimize our Halloween strategy by typing a highly unspecific query into my phone with my left thumb, while my right arm acted as a human structural support for an 11-month-old who...

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