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Why The Baby Driver Soundtrack Vibe Is Actually Perfect For Your Kids
I was sitting in my minivan in the preschool pickup line, sweating through my second shirt of the day in this unforgiving Texas heat, when my sister-in-law shot me a frantic text. She was asking if the whole "baby driver"...
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...
How We Survived Baby Ear Piercing: A Clueless Dad's Field Guide
I was sweating completely through my gray flannel shirt while sitting on that crinkly white paper they put over pediatric exam tables, gripping a color-coded spreadsheet I'd made about titanium purity levels. My wife, Sarah, was sitting next to me...
My Honest Baby Eczema Cream Routine That Finally Let Us Sleep
It was 2:14 in the morning, the cicadas were screaming outside our Texas window, and I was sitting on the nursery floor watching my oldest son, Beau, turn his own face into a literal crime scene. He was maybe four...
The 3 AM Plastic Crisis & The Truth About Baby Einstein Toys
It was 3:17 in the morning, November 2017, and I was wearing my husband Dave's oversized college sweatpants with an unidentified gray stain on the knee. I was doing that frantic, desperate bounce-sway dance with my four-month-old daughter Maya, who...
The truth about that heavy baby elephant walk
I'm sitting on the living room floor watching a fourteen-month-old slam his whole foot down against the hardwood like he's trying to squash a very large, very resilient bug. His arms are bent and held up by his ears like...
Raising Baby Elephants: The Truth About Elephant Parenting
I spent the first three months of my son's life armed with a color-coded spreadsheet. I tracked sleep windows, ounces consumed, and bowel movements with the grim intensity of a charge nurse during a code blue. I thought if I...
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...
What I got wrong about the great baby bassinet debate
I was staring at the ceiling fan at three in the morning, calculating how many consecutive minutes of sleep I had logged since Tuesday. It was twenty-eight. Next to me, my daughter was grunting like a tiny, angry pug in...