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Mother walking in Chicago winter wearing a baby in a structured ergonomic carrier.

What they never tell you about that ergo baby carrier obsession

I was standing in the Target parking lot on a Tuesday afternoon. Lake Michigan wind was doing that miserable thing where it bites straight through your denim. My kid was screaming in his baby car seat. I was sweating through...

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Gladys the gorilla and baby at Cincinnati zoo alongside a tired mom

Cincinnati Zoo Gladys Gorilla Baby Birth & Postpartum Chaos

It was 3:14 in the morning, I had a streak of questionable yellow spit-up drying on my left shoulder, and my oldest was throwing an absolute fit in the next room because his favorite dinosaur sock fell off in his...

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