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Dad trying to put a shirt on a squirming 11-month-old boy

Debugging the baby boy wardrobe: A first-time dad’s logs

My thumb was actively bleeding. It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, rain was aggressively battering our Portland bedroom window, and I was locked in a physical struggle with a tiny, angry, poop-covered human. The adversary was a rigid denim...

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Searching for baby bowser: Screen time, hair bows, and pure panic

It was 6:14 on a Tuesday morning, a time when civilized society is safely asleep, but my living room looked like the aftermath of a minor coup. Twin A (Mia) was clutching the Nintendo Switch controller to her chest like...

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The Truth About Baby Bows (And The Red Marks They Leave)

I was standing in the middle of a dusty Texas bluebonnet patch off Highway 290, sweating completely through my shirt while my four-month-old screamed like a tiny, furious baby Bowser. She was thrashing around, clawing at her own head, trying...

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What The Baby Boom Years Actually Taught Me About Motherhood

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently hiding in the downstairs half-bath. It's Tuesday, 4:13 PM. You're wearing those black maternity leggings that you definitely shouldn't still be wearing because Leo is four years old, and there's a...

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The Truth About Baby Blue Nails: When to Panic and When to Chill

Maya was exactly three weeks old, and we were sitting in a freezing local coffee shop because I had reached a level of sleep deprivation where I physically needed to be around other adult humans or I was going to...

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The Honestly Messy Truth On How To Burp A Baby Without Tears

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. You're currently sitting on your sister’s hideous beige microfiber sectional at 3:14 AM. You're wearing your husband Mike’s stained college sweatpants from 2008, the ones with the hole in the left knee. There's...

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How I Survived the Great Highland Cow Baby Obsession of 2024

I'm currently sitting in the corner of a semi-detached flat in Zone 3 London, making intense eye contact with a six-foot plush Scottish bovine. It has more hair than I do, takes up roughly the same square footage as a...

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The Hey Baby Reality Check For Every Exhausted New Parent

It was 3:14 in the morning and I was standing over a crib trying to negotiate with a swaddled infant who looked like a very angry burrito. The white noise machine was turned up to a volume that probably violated...

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A tired mom holding a baby on a changing table looking at a fresh diaper

What I Wish I Knew About Finding Healthy Baby Diapers That Actually...

I'm looking at you right now from six months in the future. You're sitting on the cold bathroom tile at three in the morning. It's February in Chicago, the wind is howling, and the changing pad looks like a literal...

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