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Lil Baby My Turn: Surviving The 3 AM Parenting Night Shift

I'm standing in our kitchen at 2:13 AM, bathed in the sickly yellow glow of the microwave clock, staring at a slightly damp muslin cloth while holding a bottle that's somehow simultaneously burning hot on the outside and completely freezing...

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The Messy Reality of Being a Baby's Mom: Surviving Newborns

I was sitting on my bathroom floor at 2:14 AM with a broken breast pump in one hand and a half-eaten sleeve of stale saltines in the other, aggressively weeping because my golden retriever, Buster, looked at me wrong. My...

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Surviving Year One: Letter To My Clueless Past Self (baby_jul1)

You're currently standing in the baby aisle of John Lewis, staring at a wall of breast pumps with the terrified, vacant expression of a man who has just been told an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. I know this because...

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The Great 3 AM Lie About Your Baby's Sleep Schedule

I was sitting on the very edge of our squeaky nursery glider at 3:14 AM with my firstborn, glaring at a four-dollar tracking app on my phone that was flashing a red warning to tell me my three-week-old was "off...

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The 2 AM FaceTime: My Honest Baby Tylenol Dosage Chart

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently standing in your dark kitchen at 2:14 AM wearing Dave's oversized college hoodie that smells faintly of damp basement. You're holding a lukewarm mug of yesterday's coffee because you somehow think...

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The Reality Behind 'Me As A Baby' Memes: A Letter To Past Marcus

You're currently sitting on the edge of the bathtub at 2:14 AM, staring at the baby monitor app on your phone, trying to figure out why your five-month-old son sounds like a dial-up modem struggling to connect to a bad...

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Dear Past Me: Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost is a Warning

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently wedged between the bulk-sized paper towels and the dog food bin in the pantry. It's 2:14 AM. You're wearing Dave's gray college sweatpants—the ones with that unidentifiable crusty bleach stain on...

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How to Survive the Moro Reflex in Babies Without Losing Your Mind

It’s two in the morning in 2019, and I'm hovering over a bassinet with my oldest, Jackson, holding my breath until my lungs actually burn. I’ve done the sway, the aggressive shushing, the hour-long rocking chair marathon, and he's finally...

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Is the Newton Baby Crib Mattress Really Worth Three Hundred Bucks?

My mom told me to put my firstborn on his stomach with a heavy quilt "so he feels secure like he's still in the womb." The lactation consultant at the hospital swore he needed to sleep on my bare chest...

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