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How To Actually Survive Your Trench Baby Without Losing Your Mind

It was three in the morning and the Chicago winter wind was violently rattling our bedroom window. I was sitting on the edge of the mattress, glaring at my phone screen in the dark. I had three different tracking apps...

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Processing the Tragic University of Kentucky Cheerleader Baby News

It was 5:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on the sticky linoleum of my kitchen floor in sweatpants that smelled faintly of string cheese, trying to drink coffee that had been microwaved three times already. I was...

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What the Wendy Ortiz baby daddy drama gets right about parenting

The screen brightness on my phone is turned all the way down to a dull gray. Outside, the Chicago winter wind is doing that thing where it sounds like a dying animal against the windowpanes. It's two in the morning....

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How Does Preeclampsia Affect the Baby? My NICU Story

It's 2:14 PM on a Tuesday and I'm wearing these absolutely hideous mustard-colored maternity leggings that I bought on clearance at Target, sweating through my third cup of lukewarm decaf. I'm sitting on that terrible crinkly paper of the exam...

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Why We Are Obsessed With The Homeless Billionaire Baby Daddy

My mother-in-law told me I just needed to pray harder to find my village. The lactation consultant at the hospital said I needed to schedule self-care in fifteen-minute increments. My best friend, three margaritas deep, told me to just download...

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The Honest Truth About Postpartum Baby Botox For Mothers

It was ninety-eight degrees in the Target parking lot, my three-year-old was actively trying to liberate himself from his five-point harness using a rogue pretzel stick, and the baby was screaming a pitch that I'm fairly certain violated several local...

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The Real Meaning Behind Baby Blue Lyrics & The Actual Baby Blues

Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to freestyle a soothing melody based purely on a song's title at three in the morning while holding an angry infant. I learned this the hard way. I've twin girls, which means my entire existence...

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The Medical Illusion of Your Scheduled Baby Arrival Timeline

I was sitting at the pediatric triage desk with a lukewarm chai in a foam cup when a woman waddled in, practically vibrating with panic. She was holding a crumpled ultrasound printout and crying because she was forty weeks and...

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The Emmanuel Haro Case: Facing The Real Threat To Our Babies

I was sitting on my living room floor knee-deep in a pile of shipping mailers for my Etsy shop, trying to desperately fold laundry with my other hand while the baby was miraculously asleep for five consecutive minutes, when the...

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