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The day a magnetic baby lock defeated my husband and saved the bleach

It was a Tuesday morning, exactly 10:14 AM, and I was wearing a pair of gray maternity sweatpants that had a questionable yogurt stain on the left thigh. Maya was at preschool, and Leo was nine months old. He had...

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The Brutal Reality Of Trying To Find A Safe Baby Life Jacket

July 2018. Lake George. I'm standing on a splintery wooden dock in a Target floral maxi dress that I thought made me look like a breezy, relaxed coastal mom but was actually just wrapping around my ankles and tripping me....

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What to Do When You Look Outside and See a Baby Rat Near Your Kids

It was 6:15 on a freezing Tuesday morning, and I was standing in my kitchen wearing a pair of inside-out Target leggings—you know the ones with the side pocket that always sags?—drinking my third espresso because Maya was going through...

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The Night I Dropped a Pill (And How We Survive Meds Now)

I was wearing my husband Dan’s threadbare college lacrosse t-shirt, it was 2:14 in the morning, and I was on my hands and knees with my iPhone flashlight in my mouth, frantically sweeping the kitchen floor with my bare hands....

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The 3 AM Truth About Crying and Shaking Baby Syndrome

It was 3:14 on a Tuesday morning in November, and the rain was lashing against the single-glazed window of our flat in London, but I couldn’t hear it over the sound of my own teeth grinding. I was standing in...

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The Skilla Baby Shot Panic: What I Learned Googling Infant Vaccines

I was balancing my phone on my left knee at 2:13 AM while my 11-month-old used my collarbone as a temporary mattress. I was trying to look up the timeline for his next round of immunizations, but my thumb slipped...

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The Viral Falling Baby Lawsuit Hoax vs Actual Window Tech

Thursday morning, my phone lit up with three completely incompatible push notifications about gravity and my 11-month-old. First, my mother-in-law texted me a frantic TikTok link claiming some random dude was dragged into court for half a million dollars after...

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What the Lindbergh baby taught me about nursery security

Listen, it's two in the morning in Chicago, the radiator is hissing like a dying snake, and I'm standing in my toddler's room staring at the window latch. I should be sleeping. Instead, I'm thinking about a homemade wooden ladder...

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My Sorry Baby Trailer Disasters & The Toxic Y2K Baby T Trend

I'm standing in our cracked concrete driveway sweating completely through my favorite target t-shirt while trying to shove a supposedly perfectly-sized bicycle helmet onto a screaming ten-month-old who's actively stiff-boarding his body like a plank of wood. Dear past Jess...

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