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Infant wearing pink noise-canceling headphones at a loud music festival

Why bringing a baby to a Lil Baby concert is a terrible idea

My cousin Neha spent three days hovering over her laptop trying to score lil baby concert tickets. She finally secured two floor seats for the lil baby concert atlanta stop, then casually texted me a screenshot of her cart with...

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Mom holding a silicone baby teether instead of a dangerous ice cube

When Ice Ice Baby Goes Wrong: Teething, Choking, and Cold Fails

I was standing in my kitchen at two in the morning in a ratty t-shirt, sweat dripping down my back because Texas in July is basically a swamp, watching a piece of ice slide out of my fingers and straight...

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Pregnant mother sitting on floor surrounded by baby shower gifts and neutral decor.

The Truth About Surviving Your Own Baby Shower

I was thirty-one weeks pregnant, sitting on my incredibly dusty apartment floor in Chicago, staring at a mountain of tissue paper while my mother-in-law asked why I hated color. She had wanted royal blue balloons everywhere. I had asked for...

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A messy living room floor with a wooden baby play gym and a half-empty coffee mug

What On Earth Is A Skilla Baby? Sorting Out Real Milestone Myths

Three different people gave me completely contradictory advice about raising a baby in the exact same twenty-four-hour period after I brought my oldest son, Leo, home from the hospital seven years ago. My mother-in-law, standing in my cramped kitchen wearing...

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A frustrated mother reading a botanical baby lotion ingredient label while holding her toddler

Why Rosemary's Baby Is A Terrible Idea For Your Real Toddler

My mother-in-law told me to rub concentrated rosemary oil on my toddler's chest to cure his midnight cough. The next morning, my granola-mom neighbor swore a homemade rosemary extract paste was the only reliable way to dissolve cradle cap. Then...

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A frustrated mom looking at shrunken baby laundry on a drying rack

The Truth About Expensive Bamboo Sleep Sacks And The Laundry

The biggest lie the internet tells new mothers is that spending fifty bucks on a piece of magical fabric will buy you a full night of uninterrupted sleep. It was 11 PM on a random Tuesday in 2019, I was...

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Sweaty baby wearing a plain organic cotton armless bodysuit in summer

The Real Reason My Babies Live in Sleeveless Summer Bodysuits

I was standing next to a kiddie pool in my sister-in-law’s backyard, sweat pooling entirely too fast in my nursing bra, staring down at my firstborn son who looked like a boiled hot dog. It was the Fourth of July...

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A tired mom holding a baby wrapped snugly in a stretchy jersey swaddle

The 3AM Rescue: Why a Jersey Knit Swaddle Blanket Saved Me

It was exactly 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in the dark kitchen in a pair of stained maternity leggings that I had supposedly retired three weeks prior, just staring at my newborn son. Leo was three...

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Dad holding a baby wearing a simple A-line dress

Buying schΓΆne kleider fΓΌr kinder: A dad's dress debugging

It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday when the mobility crisis officially peaked. My eleven-month-old daughter, Maya, was stranded in the middle of our living room rug, her knees firmly pinned to the floor by an excessive layer of synthetic...

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