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The Truth About Pehr Nursery Gear (And What Actually Matters)

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant with my oldest, sweating through a maternity tank top in the middle of a brutal Texas July, just staring at a pile of nursery gifts on the floor that made me want to cry. My...

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The Totally Unfiltered Truth About Raising a Newborn Baby Girl

I spent the first forty-eight hours of my oldest daughter's life absolutely terrified I was going to break her lady parts. I’m just gonna be real with you—the hospital nurses were wiping her down like it was no big deal,...

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The Truth About Unique Gifts For One Year Old Baby Girl

It's currently 6:15 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm staring at a living room that looks like it was recently ransacked by a gang of very small, incredibly destructive sugar addicts. There's half-chewed wrapping paper stuck to the skirting boards,...

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The Truth About New Baby Gifts (And Why I Burned a Cardigan)

It’s late October 2017. I'm sitting on the edge of a remarkably uncomfortable IKEA glider in my dimly lit nursery, wearing a nursing bra that smells intensely like sour milk and sheer desperation. I'm holding my three-day-old daughter, Maya, who's...

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Surviving the Late-Night Chaos of Baby Shower Cookies

It was 2:13 AM and I was standing in my kitchen wearing my husband's college sweatpants and a nursing tank that definitely smelled like sour milk, holding a piping bag of pale yellow icing that was supposed to look like...

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Exactly What to Write on Baby Shower Card Without Stressing

Dear Jess from six months ago, You're currently sitting in the driver's seat of the F-150 outside the Methodist church fellowship hall, sweating clean through your only halfway decent maternity-friendly dress. The baby shower starts in exactly four minutes. You...

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Debugging Baby Gift Baskets: What Sleep-Deprived Parents Need

It’s 3:14 AM. I'm holding a screaming, seven-pound potato in one arm while desperately trying to rip through industrial-grade cellophane with my teeth. The target? A tiny tube of diaper cream buried at the absolute center of one of the...

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Stop Writing Terrifying Advice In Your Baby Shower Cards

Picture this. You're trapped on a velvet armchair in a room that smells aggressively of buttercream and eucalyptus. Twenty women, ranging from your childhood best friend to your partner’s distant aunt, are staring at you. You're sweating through your maternity...

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The Real Guide to Throwing a Baby Sprinkle That Isn't Tacky

When I got pregnant with my second, I received three completely contradictory pieces of advice in the span of forty-eight hours. My mom, sipping her sweet iced tea on my porch, told me that having a party for a second...

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