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What Actually Decides If You're Having a Boy or a Girl
I was six weeks pregnant with my oldest, aggressively dry-heaving into a paper cup in the passenger seat of my husband's truck, when my grandma leaned forward from the backseat and said, "If you want a girl, you need to...
What Age Do Babies Walk (And Why The Timeline Is A Total Lie)
My coffee was lukewarm, but the tension in the room was boiling. We were sitting on Maya's living room floor, and her kid had just taken three shaky, Frankenstein-style steps across the rug. He was nine months old. The other...
When Babies Roll Over: The Unexpected Chaos of the Milestone
It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday. The baby monitor on my nightstand was glowing with the kind of ominous infrared light that usually precedes a jump scare in a horror movie. I stared at the pixelated screen, trying to...
The Truth About That Welcome To Derry Baby Trend Wrecking Sleep
When the night terrors started last week, I naturally asked three different people for advice, which was my first mistake. The woman who runs our local playgroup suggested I let the twins "lean into their dark emotions" and process the...
My 3 AM Diaper Rash Disaster: The Truth About Water Wipes Baby Care
It's 3:17 AM. My oldest son, Jacksonβwho's basically my walking, talking cautionary tale at this pointβis screaming so loud I'm pretty sure the cows in the pasture next door are waking up. I've got him pinned down on the changing...
The brutal truth about water babies and safe infant hydration
I was sitting on the edge of the Oak Street Beach splash pad last August when I watched a well-meaning grandmother twist the cap off a bottle of smartwater and bring it to the lips of a newborn. The kid...
Why I Watch Cry-Baby 1990 When My Actual Baby Just Won't Stop
Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the floor of the nursery in your sweatpants, staring at a patch of dried spit-up on the rug while Arjun screams like he's being prepped for an unanesthetized appendectomy. The...
Why parents who try to watch baby driver get weird search results
My mom called on a Tuesday to say I needed to buy a "baby driver" immediately because that's supposedly how I learned to walk in 1993. Four hours later, my frontend lead Slacked me a link saying I had to...
How One Cheap Walmart Baby Gate Almost Ruined My Entire Weekend
There I was, standing in aisle 14 of an Orlando Walmart at two in the morning while visiting my wifeβs American family, holding what I believed to be a simple piece of plastic and mesh. I was completely unaware that...