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Exhausted dad looking at baby tracking spreadsheets on his phone in a dark room.

The Newborn Spreadsheets: Confessions of a Recovering Stat Baby Obs...

Dear Tom from two and a half years ago, You're currently sitting in the glow of your phone screen in the hallway outside the nursery, aggressively logging "three minutes of unsettled grizzling" into an app that costs Β£4.99 a month....

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Stat Baby Boyfriend: Surviving The Newborn Phase Together

It was 2:14 in the morning and my shoulder was covered in something that smelled like old yogurt. Our baby boy was doing that silent, terrifying breath-holding thing that happens right before a lung-shattering scream. My boyfriend was standing in...

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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...

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The Real Truth About Sweets and That Sugar Baby Candy

My grandmother, bless her heart, was sitting on my front porch in her favorite floral duster when she reached into her dark, mysterious purse and pulled out a sticky, half-melted sugar baby candy. My oldest, who was barely eleven months...

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The Suki Baby Trend: What Touring Rockstars Forget to Tell You

I was standing in Terminal B at DFW airport, dripping sweat onto my carry-on bag, trying to figure out which of the fourteen plastic clips on my baby carrier was currently digging a trench into my left rib. I had...

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The "Maybe Baby" Fantasy vs. Bringing Home Your Actual Newborn

It was 3:17 in the morning, and the blue light from my smartphone was practically burning my retinas as I sat in the rocking chair, desperately trying to log exactly how many ounces of breastmilk my oldest had just choked...

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Stressed dad in a hospital room holding an 11-month-old baby while researching whimsical naming ideas on a smartphone.

The Hospital Wi-Fi Stalled Our Magic Baby Names

The fluorescent light in room 412 of Providence Hospital had this specific 60-hertz hum that was drilling directly into my sleep-deprived prefrontal cortex. I had a lukewarm, terrible cafeteria coffee in one hand and a state-mandated birth certificate form in...

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Why googling "Luna baby" at 3 AM is actually a terrible idea

I'm sitting on the cold, hexagonal tile of my master bathroom floor, and it's exactly 3:14 AM. I know it's 3:14 AM because the glowing red numbers on the digital clock Dave insisted we put in there are glaring at...

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Put down the loves baby soft perfume before you hold my baby

The pink bottle appeared out of nowhere while I was trying to figure out how to ice my perineum. My mother-in-law had cornered me in the hospital recovery room, brandishing a vintage bottle of Loves Baby Soft perfume like it...

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