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A tired mom holding a baby on a changing table looking at a fresh diaper

What I Wish I Knew About Finding Healthy Baby Diapers That Actually...

I'm looking at you right now from six months in the future. You're sitting on the cold bathroom tile at three in the morning. It's February in Chicago, the wind is howling, and the changing pad looks like a literal...

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That Polo G Lyric Sent Me Down a Terrifying Parenting Rabbit Hole

I was elbow-deep in a tub of Sudocrem, trying to wrestle two screaming two-year-old girls into their nighttime nappies, when a playlist I hadn’t updated since 2019 shuffled onto a track by Polo G. I wasn't really listeningβ€”I was mostly...

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Mother adjusting a linen baby carrier in a messy Chicago apartment

The Happy Baby Carrier Hype Unpacked By A Very Tired Nurse

My mother-in-law warned me that wearing him would ruin his spine. My doula acted like putting him down in a bassinet would permanently damage his attachment style. The mom in my baby yoga class claimed the happy baby brand carrier...

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Tired mother practicing the goldie baby breathing technique on the floor

Dear Past Priya: The Goldie Baby Method For Maternal Burnout

Dear Priya from exactly six months ago. You're currently sitting on the bath mat in our freezing Chicago apartment, staring at the crooked grout lines while your son screams on the other side of the door. The e baby monitor...

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Sarah sitting in her car looking stressed while holding a giant bottle of prenatal vitamins.

Why My Doctor Pushed The Tiny Pill During My First Pregnancy

It was a Tuesday afternoon in 2018, and I was sitting in the driver's seat of my Honda CR-V in a CVS parking lot, wearing a mustard yellow maternity sweater that made me look like a severely bruised banana, absolutely...

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A tired mother holding her toddler in a messy kitchen

The Real Meaning Behind Sugar Babies For Tired Moms

Five pounds of Gold Medal all-purpose flour hit my linoleum floor with a sound like a muted gunshot. A white cloud plumed up, coating my scrubs, my sneakers, and the crying actual human infant strapped to my chest. I was...

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Dad staring blankly at television while twin toddlers destroy the living room

When The Baby-Sitters Club Makes You Question Your Parenting

I was wedged between the living room radiator and a pile of inexplicably sticky building blocks at 5:43 AM on a Tuesday when it happened. Twin A was aggressively gumming a slightly stale rice cake, Twin B was trying to...

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Worried dad checking newborn baby head soft spot safely

The absolute panic of your newborn's soft spot (and why it's fine)

I was sweating profusely in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon, holding a tiny striped jumper like it was an unexploded World War II bomb I had just unearthed in the garden. Twin A lay on the changing mat, completely...

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A tired dad holding a sick baby wrapped in a squirrel print organic cotton blanket in a dimly lit nursery.

The Midnight Whistle: Surviving The RS Virus With Twin Babies

It was a Tuesday, precisely 3:14 AM, and Florence was making a noise that sounded suspiciously like a broken penny whistle trapped inside a damp accordion. I was standing in the dark of the nursery, wearing a t-shirt stained with...

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