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Why I Finally Started Buying Serenity Kids Baby Food for Maya

I was sitting on my kitchen floor at exactly 2:14 PM on a Tuesday, wearing yoga pants that hadn’t seen the inside of a gym since Obama was in office, panic-Googling "arsenic in sweet potatoes" while Maya, who was about...

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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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Why the she gon call me baby boo meme is stressing moms out

My mother-in-law told me the twitching was a severe vitamin D deficiency. The millennial dad at the park said it was a highly sophisticated piece of Gen Alpha performance art. My pediatrician just sighed, rubbed his temples, and mumbled something...

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She Gon Call Me Baby Boo TikTok Trend Nearly Ended Me

I was knee-deep in a pile of unsorted laundry—the kind of massive, intimidating pile where you honestly can't tell what's actually clean and what has just been worn for five minutes and tossed on the floor by a toddler—when my...

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The Bizarre Lies She Told My Baby About My Pre-Parenting Life

I watched in absolute horror as my old university friend Fiona, wearing a leather jacket that smelled faintly of stale vape smoke and regret, leaned directly into the pram and started rewriting my twenties. We were in a Costa Coffee...

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That 3 AM "Sherry Baby" Google Search That Actually Saved My Sanity

It was 3:14 AM and I was wearing a pair of gray sweatpants that had a mysterious crusty stain on the left knee which could have been spit-up or maybe hummus from two days ago. The biggest lie they tell...

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The 3am SIDS Baby Panic and Why Nobody Actually Sleeps Anymore

I'm standing over the cot at 3:14 AM. I'm holding my wife's £30 MAC compact mirror. I'm sliding it slowly under the tiny nostrils of Twin A, holding my own breath while I wait for the minuscule fog of condensation...

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My Utterly Chaotic, Milk-Stained Guide To Sign Language For Babies

It’s 5:43 AM on a Tuesday in November. I'm wearing my husband Dave’s stained gray sweatpants and a maternity tank top that I’m pretty sure has been inside-out since Sunday. Maya is exactly eight months and two days old, and...

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The real signs of dehydration in babies (and other 3am panics)

The first time one of the twins caught a proper stomach bug, I received three distinct pieces of medical advice within a single afternoon. My mother-in-law suggested I give them a bottle of warm tap water because "it worked for...

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