Dear Past Priya: What I Wish I Knew About Teething
You're standing in the kitchen right now. It's 3:17 in the morning. Your favorite gray t-shirt is soaked in an alarming amount of drool, and you're aggressively scrolling through your phone with one thumb while bouncing a screaming six-month-old on...
A teething necklace for mom saved my sanity and my shirts
It was a Tuesday in early November. I was sitting in the corner booth at Red Roasters wearing a ridiculous emerald green silk blouse that I had absolutely no business wearing to a coffee shop with a six-month-old. Maya was...
Dear Past Me: The Honest Truth About Surviving With Baby Teethers
Dear Jess from October. You're currently standing in the kitchen at 3 AM in an oversized, spit-up covered baby tee, staring into the harsh fluorescent light of the open refrigerator. The baby is screaming loud enough to wake the dead,...
Babys zahnen: Oh Gott, mein ehrlicher Zahnungs-Survival-Guide
Es war exakt 3:14 Uhr morgens an einem Dienstag, ich trug ein verwaschenes College-Shirt, auf dem ein nicht identifizierbarer Fleck von Mayas gestrigem Haferbrei klebte, und Leo brΓΌllte, als hΓ€tte ich ihm gerade erΓΆffnet, dass es nie wieder Milch gibt....
Finding the right babyspielzeug 6 monate: A zero-BS toy guide
My bare heel came down directly onto the plastic snout of a battery-operated farm animal at three in the morning. The thing didn't just break my skin. It triggered a motion sensor that immediately started blaring a chaotic, tinny rendition...
Why your baby hates every teething toy you buy
My mother-in-law casually suggested rubbing whiskey on my daughter's gums. The neighborhood mom-group admin swore by a thirty-dollar raw Baltic amber necklace that apparently possesses magical anti-swollen properties. My old charge nurse at the hospital just shrugged, told me to...
The brutal truth about teething and surviving the midnight drool
My mother-in-law told me to rub raw honey on his swollen gums, completely ignoring the botulism risk. A mom at music class swore her infant popped four incisors overnight with zero tears because she rubbed expensive vanilla extract on his...
Wann zahnen Babys? Ein Γberlebensbericht fΓΌr ΓΌbermΓΌdete Eltern
Es ist 3:14 Uhr morgens an einem feuchtkalten Londoner Dienstag, und ich stehe mit einer halben, angefrorenen Bio-Karotte in unserer KΓΌche. Meine Tochter β eine HΓ€lfte meines zweijΓ€hrigen Zwillings-Doppelpacks, damals jedoch erst knapp sieben Monate alt β kaut wΓ€hrenddessen nicht...
That 3 AM Nightmare: Surviving a Wunder Po bei Babys at Home
3:14 AM. A Tuesday. I'm standing in the nursery wearing Dave's ridiculously oversized Villanova sweatpants with a mysterious yogurt stain on the knee, and ten-month-old Maya is screaming like I'm trying to actively murder her. It wasn't her normal "I'm...