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When Your Kid Folds in Half: Surviving a Frank Breech Baby Delivery

"Put a frozen bag of frozen peas on the top of your belly," my neighbor Shelly told me at the grocery store, cornering me between the canned beans and the tortillas. "Stand on your head in the swimming pool," my...

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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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What Elon Musk's Expanding Family Taught This Pediatric Nurse

I was wiping a suspicious volume of spit-up off my scrub top in the pediatric ER breakroom when a resident handed me a magazine with another billionaire on the cover. Everyone was whispering about the latest elon musk baby addition,...

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Furry Babies: Managing Pets, Pretend Play, and Tiny Humans

I was standing on my front porch sweating through my postpartum pads, clutching my three-day-old son like he was a live grenade, while my 80-pound lab mix, Buster, hurled his entire body against the glass storm door. The dog was...

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The Unfiltered Reality of Raising a Baby and a Puppy at the Same Time

I was sitting flat on the cold kitchen linoleum at three in the morning, nursing a highly irritable four-month-old on my left side, while a ten-week-old golden retriever mix actively tried to swallow the fuzzy pom-pom off my right slipper....

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What the rainbow baby definition actually means in real life

It was a Tuesday in late October, raining that gross sideways rain we get in Seattle, and I was sitting in the driver's seat of my Honda CR-V in the Walgreens parking lot. I was wearing these awful maternity leggings...

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Proud Curvy Girl Seeks Lost Baby Daddy: 3 AM Doomscroll Notes

Dear Priya from last November. You're currently sitting on the closed lid of the downstairs toilet. The bathmat is damp under your bare feet because your husband took a shower three hours ago and didn't turn on the exhaust fan....

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A Letter to My Past Self About This Whole Ozempic Babies Surprise

Dear Jess from six months ago. I see you sitting there on the cold tile of the guest bathroom floor, staring at that plastic stick while the washing machine thumps against the wall so hard it feels like an earthquake....

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Surviving The RS Virus With A Baby: What I Wish I Knew Sooner

I was wearing my husband’s college track sweatpantsβ€”the ones with the embarrassing hole right at the kneeβ€”and a t-shirt that literally smelled like sour milk and desperation. It was 3:14 AM on a freezing Tuesday in November. Maya was four...

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