Can Babies Get High From Breastfeeding? The Brutally Honest Truth
It was 3:14 AM. I was sitting in our creaky nursery glider wearing a pair of my husband Dave's gym shorts that smelled faintly of old protein powder, nursing a four-month-old Leo who was aggressively pinching my left boob. My...
When You Realize That Milk on Your Baby's Tongue is Actually Thrush
It was 3:14 AM. I know the exact time because I had been staring at the glowing green numbers on our digital alarm clock while my oldest, Leoβwho was roughly six weeks old at the timeβscreamed into my collarbone. I...
Let's Talk About How Do Babies Get Thrush (And How To Fix It)
My mother-in-law told me on the phone that it was because my breast pump parts were dirty. My lactation consultant heavily implied it was because I ate a brownie the day beforeβsugar feeds yeast, apparently, which is just incredibly unfair....
What Actually Happened When I Tried A Baby Guinness For My Milk
The breast pump was making that rhythmic, wheezing, dying-goose sound on my kitchen counter at three in the morning, and I was staring at exactly one-and-a-half ounces of milk in the little plastic bottle. My oldest son, Hunterβwho is the...
Why Your Pediatrician Is Skeptical About Baby Tongue Tie
You're sitting in the dark at three in the morning. Your infant is screaming, your nipples feel like they went through a meat grinder, and the algorithm has decided this is the perfect moment to serve you endless videos of...
Signs of alcohol in breastfed baby: A dad's late-night diary
The sound of a cork leaving a bottle of moderately priced Pinot Grigio at 7:14 PM on a rainy Tuesday in Islington should be a joyous occasion. For my wife, Sarah, it was the first glass of wine she had...
The Baby Buddha Breast Pump: A Dadβs Guide to Troubleshooting
It was 3 AM, and I was holding a pair of digital calipers, trying to measure my wife's nipples to the exact millimeter while she glared at me from the edge of the bed. This isn't exactly how I pictured...
The 3AM Pumping Crisis and the Tiny Machine That Saved Us
The kitchen tiles in our London flat are roughly the temperature of a mortuary slab at 2:14 in the morning. I know this because I was lying face down on them last Tuesday, desperately searching for a microscopic silicone membrane...
Getting rid of oral thrush without losing your mind
It's three in the morning in Chicago. You're holding your phone flashlight in your mouth, trying to pry your screaming infant's lips apart in the dark. You see a thick white coating all over their tongue. You immediately assume the...