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The Messy Truth About White Noise For Babies And Sleep Safety

I was sitting cross-legged on the stained rug of Leo's nursery at like 3:14 AM. I was wearing my husband's college lacrosse hoodie that smelled vaguely of sour milk, and holding my screaming four-week-old, totally convinced I had already broken...

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Why a weighted sleep sack almost broke my parenting resolve

The glow of my phone screen was the only light in the nursery, casting long, vaguely sinister shadows over two cots containing infants who had apparently unionised and agreed to strike against sleep. It was 3:14 in the morning. My...

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What I Wish I Knew Before Knitting With Bernat Baby Blanket Yarn

Dear Sarah from six months ago, You're currently standing in aisle four of the craft store. It’s raining outside, you’re wearing those black leggings with the mystery yogurt stain on the left thigh, and you're staring blindly at a mountain...

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Why I Stopped Trusting the Box My Baby Rocking Chair Came In

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in 2017, and I was standing in my dark kitchen wearing a nursing bra that smelled aggressively like sour milk and Dave’s oversized college sweatpants, staring at this beige, gently vibrating infant seat...

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The Megan Love Is Blind Baby: What I Learned About Birth Plans

I was sitting in the dark at precisely 3:17am, trying to scrape a fossilised bit of Weetabix off my left sock without turning on the lamp, when I saw the news. My phone screen lit up with a notification about...

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Why Dumb Tech Is Actually Better for Your Baby's Sleep

It was 2:14 AM and my phone was glowing an angry, pulsating red. The oxygen alarm was going off. I basically vaulted over my sleeping wife, kicked a laundry basket into the hallway wall, and burst into the nursery expecting...

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The Truth About the Owlet Baby Monitor for Anxious Parents

It was 2:18 AM on a random Tuesday in November, and I was sitting on the very edge of our mattress in a milk-stained maternity bra and my husband's gray sweatpants, just openly staring at a softly glowing green ring...

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Surviving The Baby Phase When Everyone Has Different Advice

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant with my oldest, waddling through the aisles of our local grocery store just trying to buy some Tums, when a woman I had never met in my life stopped me to say I needed to...

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Baby Chief Do It: 3 AM Rabbit Holes & Real Firmware Updates

It’s 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, the exact temperature in our Portland apartment is 68.5 degrees, and I'm currently forty-five minutes deep into a TikTok wormhole trying to figure out why my eleven-month-old’s behavior doesn’t match the internet’s benchmarks. My...

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