Surviving the First Night With a Clubfoot Baby (and What Comes Next)
It was exactly 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was wearing maternity leggings that were literally disintegrating at the thighs and Daveβs old college hoodie that smelled faintly of sour milk and desperation. We were three months into this...
Why Searching For Baby Reindeer Episodes Nearly Broke My Brain
I had my arms elbow-deep in a basket of spit-up stained laundry, trying desperately to find the matching half of a tiny sock, when my four-year-old started screaming at the Roku remote. I was half-listening, calculating how many Etsy shop...
That time my seven-year-old demanded we get a baby leopard
It was Tuesday around 4:15 PM, raining, and I was wearing those grey sweatpants with the mysterious bleach stain on the left thigh. Maya, who's seven and currently in her aggressively vocal animal rights phase, dropped her neon pink backpack...
Note to Self: Surviving the Man Baby & What to Dress Them In
Dear Sarah from six months ago, Itβs 3:14 AM. You're currently sitting cross-legged on the floor of your sisterβs guest room wearing a pair of Daveβs old sweatpants with a questionable bleach stain on the knee and a nursing tank...
Sweet Baby Inc Detected? Why Parents Are Panicking Over Nothing
I was standing in my kitchen at 6:45 AM on a Tuesday, wearing those embarrassing grey college sweatpants with the bleach stain on the thigh, holding my third cup of coffee. My phone buzzed with a text from my sister,...
Who Determines the Sex of the Baby? The Honest Truth
Pushing a broom across a gravel driveway in mid-July is a fool's errand, but there I was, six months pregnant, trying to sweep up damp pink confetti from a gender reveal cannon that had just backfired all over my husband's...
The Brutal Truth About Buying Baby Boy Clothing
Dear Jess from six months ago, sitting on the floor of the nursery at two in the morning, crying over a mountain of hand-me-downs. You're currently surrounded by three giant trash bags of stuff from when Liam was born, and...
The Messy, Exhausting Truth About What It Takes To Adopt A Baby
I was sitting on the cold hexagonal bathroom tiles at 2:14 AM. The laptop was actually burning my thighs through Dave's gray Villanova sweatpantsβthe ones with the weird bleach stain on the knee from 2018. I had consumed three cups...
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Baby Number 5 And The Boy Mom Chaos
Yesterday at roughly ten past four in the afternoon, I was lying spread-eagled on our sitting room rug while Twin A attempted to forcefully insert a plastic spoon into Twin B's left nostril. I had what I sincerely hoped was...