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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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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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Dear Tom: A guide to surviving the very weird baby alien phase

Dear Tom, You're currently sitting on the edge of a spectacularly uncomfortable plastic mattress in the maternity ward at St Thomas' Hospital, staring into a perspex box containing two squirming, purple, vernix-covered creatures. They look less like the cherubic infants...

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What Pediatricians Think About Aveeno Baby Lotion And Eczema

I was sitting on the bathroom floor at 2 AM, trying to rub a thirty-dollar artisanal calendula cream into my screaming four-month-old. Her skin was still peeling like a sunburn. I had convinced myself that because I was a pediatric...

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My Honest Review Of Aveeno Baby Products And Daily Bathing Myths

It’s 7:42 PM on a Tuesday, I've half a lukewarm mug of microwave-reheated Folgers balanced precariously on the toilet tank, and my mother-in-law is texting me asking if I’m giving four-month-old Leo a "proper bath" tonight. The sheer panic that...

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