The Real Baby Mama Cast: Surviving Postpartum Without Hollywood
It's 3:14 in the morning. You're covered in sour milk, eating a piece of cold toast over the kitchen sink, and watching a rerun of some mid-2000s comedy on cable. The one with the famous comedic actresses. You look at...
The Literal Baby Don't Hurt Me Phase Of Parenting Is Actually Wild
It was a random Tuesday at exactly 6:14 AM, and I was wearing those tragic gray sweatpants with the mysterious bleach stain on the left thigh that my husband absolutely hates. I had exactly half a sip of lukewarm French...
Stop Writing Terrifying Advice In Your Baby Shower Cards
Picture this. You're trapped on a velvet armchair in a room that smells aggressively of buttercream and eucalyptus. Twenty women, ranging from your childhood best friend to your partnerβs distant aunt, are staring at you. You're sweating through your maternity...
Baby Aspirin During Pregnancy: What My OB Actually Said
My mother-in-law told me eating papaya would cause an immediate miscarriage. A holistic momfluencer on TikTok swore that any over-the-counter painkiller would permanently alter my unborn child's DNA. Then my OB-GYN sat across from me at fourteen weeks, slid a...
The brutal truth about your babies vaccine schedule and tears
The paper on the exam table sounds like a giant potato chip bag every time he kicks his chunky little legs. I'm staring at the metal tray holding three tiny syringes. I used to prep these exact trays. I've seen...
Minka Kelly's Memoir and the Parenting Bugs We Can't Fix
Don't, under any circumstances, ask your postpartum wife if she's crying because the Wi-Fi dropped while she's reading in the dark. I learned this at exactly 3:14 AM last Tuesday. The eerie blue glow of her Kindle was illuminating the...
What You Actually Need to Know About the Safe Haven Baby Box
I was knee-deep in folding tiny, mismatched socks yesterday when my phone buzzed with a notification from our local county Facebook moms group that immediately spiked my blood pressure. Y'all, it was an absolute mess. Somebody had posted a news...
Sorting through the quiet hospital aftermath of a stillborn baby
My mother-in-law told my friend to pack up the entire nursery before she even got home from the hospital so she wouldn't have to look at the empty crib. A hospital bereavement counselor suggested keeping the door wide open to...
Finding the Donna Summer Magic in Everyday Newborn Chaos
It's 3:14 in the morning. The radiator in our Chicago apartment is clanking like an asthmatic tin man, and my newborn daughter is doing her absolute best impression of a car alarm. Somewhere in the deep, sleep-deprived recesses of my...