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Why the best baby travel system is a beautiful lie

I'm sitting at a coffee shop in Wicker Park watching a mom nurse a cold matcha latte. Next to her is a four-week-old baby, completely folded in half like a taco inside an expensive stroller frame. The car seat is...

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Why Your Pediatrician Is Skeptical About Baby Tongue Tie

You're sitting in the dark at three in the morning. Your infant is screaming, your nipples feel like they went through a meat grinder, and the algorithm has decided this is the perfect moment to serve you endless videos of...

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The Truth About the Lydia Plath Baby Rumors & Sibling Roles

Don't ever let your four-year-old think he runs the nursery, and definitely don't believe a single thing you read on the internet at two in the morning. That was the harsh lesson I learned this week while scrolling through my...

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Why I Sing Mariah Carey Always Be My Baby At 3 AM For Sleep

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in 2017, and I was sweating through a gray David Bowie t-shirt that had questionable yellow spit-up crusted on the left shoulder, trying desperately to remember what you're actually supposed to buy if...

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Debugging The Maternity Baby Shower Dress Meltdown In Real Time

Exactly forty-five minutes before our backyard celebration was supposed to start, I found my wife stress-crying in our Portland bathroom with a humidity sensor from my server rack sitting on the counter. She was 31 weeks pregnant, and the highly-rated,...

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Finding a maternity dress for baby shower events without losing you...

I'm trapped in a zippered velvet prison. It's mid-July in Chicago, I'm thirty-three weeks pregnant, and the zipper on this supposed dream dress is stuck right over my left rib, which my daughter currently uses as a kicking bag. The...

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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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How to Write a Brilliant Message For Baby Shower Cards

I'm currently staring at a pastel yellow card featuring a deeply anatomically incorrect stork, my pen hovering over the paper as if I'm diffusing a bomb rather than preparing for my cousin's Saturday afternoon tea party. There's this pervasive, slightly...

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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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