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Why I Stopped Talking to My Infant Like a Tiny Corporate Executive

There's this very specific, slightly yellowish stain on the left shoulder of my vintage Ramones t-shirt. I got the shirt at a thrift store in 2018, back when I had things like "free time" and "disposable income," but the stain...

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Tom trying to keep a glowing glassy baby safe from twin toddlers

Surviving the Trend: Keeping a Glassy Baby Safe Around Real Twins

My mother-in-law told me it was a deeply spiritual heirloom that would absorb the chaotic energy of our household. My sister whispered it was the ultimate high-status nursery accessory that proved we were officially grown-ups. My mate Dave simply texted...

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A tired mom holding a coffee cup while reading about a mother gorilla and her newborn infant on a smartphone.

Why Gladys the Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla Is My New Parenting Hero

It was 6:14 AM on a Tuesday, I was wearing my husband Mark’s college lacrosse hoodie that smells faintly of old garlic, and I was staring at a gorilla on my phone while my coffee went completely cold. Like, literally...

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Exhausted dad in a dark nursery holding a crying baby

The 3 AM Baby Handoff Protocol: Surviving The Night Shift As A Dad

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was holding my son like he was a live grenade with a faulty pin. He had been screaming for forty-five straight minutes. I had run through the standard troubleshooting checklist: diaper...

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What the Gisele Bundchen Baby News Taught Me About Over-40 Pregnancy

It was a Tuesday, I was wearing yoga pants with an unidentifiable yogurt stain on the left knee, standing in the aisle at Target staring blankly at diaper cream when three different people gave me completely contradicting advice about having...

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Exhausted mom holding a crying baby in the kitchen at night

The Truth About Infant Gas Drops (And What Actually Worked For Us)

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in 2017, and I was standing in my kitchen wearing a pair of maternity leggings that smelled distinctly of sour milk and sheer desperation. I was running on roughly forty-five minutes of fragmented...

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The Great Fur Babies Delusion: Why Your Terrier Is Not Practice

I was sitting on the hallway floor at 3:14 in the morning, holding a plastic bag of frozen peas to my forehead while watching our Jack Russell terrier methodically lick the remnants of a violently rejected rice cake off the...

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An exhausted dad staring at his laughing 11-month-old baby in a soft organic cotton bodysuit

System Specs vs Reality: Surviving Your Comedic 11-Month-Old

It's 2:43 AM, and I'm holding a tiny human who's laughing hysterically at a completely blank wall. I'm staring at my phone's spreadsheet where I track his input/output logs and exact ambient room temperature (68.4 degrees, for the record), trying...

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A tired dad holding a baby using a whisper-quiet Frida Baby nebulizer

Debugging Infant Nasal Congestion With the Frida Baby Nebulizer

It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, the room temperature was exactly 71.5 degrees, and the humidifier was running at maximum capacity to make our Portland bedroom feel like a tropical rainforest. And yet, the 11-month-old was still whistling through...

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