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Who Is In The Oho Enthan Baby Cast? And Other Screen Time Realities

My mother-in-law swears that blasting Bollywood musicals while a baby sleeps builds character and deepens their REM cycle. The senior charge nurse from my pediatric rotation used to tell mothers that a single exposure to a glowing screen before age...

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Why the boss baby characters explain your toxic toddler

Listen. When my cousin was pregnant with her second, the advice poured in like a leaked pipe in an old Chicago apartment. My auntie told her the older kid just needs to learn his place because the new baby is...

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The 3AM Cot Politician: Surviving the Baby Sleep Regression Ages

It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. The rain is lashing against our bedroom window in that specifically spiteful London way, and I'm standing in the dark watching my daughter Alice perform a flawless impression of a miniature, furious politician. She...

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The truth about baby Sinclair sleep advice and 90s dinosaurs

It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I've got cold, regurgitated milk drying on my left shoulder while attempting to type search queries into my phone with my nose. Florence is screaming because she's awake, and Matilda is screaming because...

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Why Getting A Baby Turtle Is Actually A Terrible Idea For Kids

My index finger is pressed against the remarkably smudged glass of a terrarium at a strip-mall pet store in Beaverton, desperately trying to explain the concept of a "shell" to an 11-month-old who's currently attempting to eat my shoelaces. It...

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The Honest Truth About Baby Poop (And What Is Actually Normal)

I was holding a flashlight between my teeth at 3:15 AM, trying to angle my phone camera just perfectly so I didn't get a glare off the shiny puddle of what looked like alien slime in my oldest son's diaper....

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Best Bottles for Breastfed Babies: A Messy Transition Story

We were sitting in booth 42 at the Olive Garden off Interstate 35, and I was actively ruining everyone's lunch. My oldest son was four weeks old, screaming at a pitch that I'm pretty sure shattered a breadstick, and my...

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Decoding The Postpartum Truth In Baby Justin Bieber Lyrics

It's three in the morning in a Chicago winter. The radiator is hissing, the baby is screaming in a frequency that vibrates my actual teeth, and for reasons I can no longer trace, my Spotify algorithm has decided to queue...

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Why Searching For That Baby John Cartoon Sent Me Into A Panic

My mother-in-law swore by propping Leo up with an iPad the second he got fussy, my sister acted like letting a 3D animated pig sing a nursery rhyme would literally dissolve his frontal lobe, and my husband Dave just muttered...

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