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Exhausted pregnant mom on couch watching a soap opera on her phone

Exposing the Baby Bump to Billionaire Wife Fantasy for Real Moms

It was 2:43 AM last Tuesday, and I was pinned under a snoring toddler, elbow-deep in a bag of salt and vinegar chips, aggressively squinting at my phone screen in the dark. I had fallen down the darkest, weirdest rabbit...

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Surviving Your First Baby Xray Without Completely Losing Your Mind

It was a Tuesday at 9 AM, and I was sitting in a freezing radiology waiting room wearing yesterday’s leggings and a nursing bra that smelled faintly of sour milk. I was staring blankly at a poster of a cartoon...

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Frustrated mom holding an iced coffee and a baby wearing a comfortable dress

The Absolute Sweat-Soaked Truth About Buying Baby Girl Dresses

It was 2 PM, the sun was literally laughing at us, and I was holding a plastic cup of iced coffee that was basically just brown water at that point. We were at my cousin Rachel’s outdoor wedding in August...

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A pile of folded infant clothes next to a half empty iced coffee on a messy rug

The Brutal Truth About H&M Sizing and My Fast Fashion Paradox

I was literally sitting on the floor of Maya’s nursery, which was painted this exact shade of sage green that I spent three weeks hyper-fixating on during my third trimester, crying over a tiny beige cardigan. She was maybe eight...

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Two toddlers in a London park wearing tiny infant trainers while their dad looks exhausted.

Dear Past Me: What I Wish I Knew Before Buying Nike Baby Shoes

Dear Tom from six months ago, You're currently standing in the pouring rain outside a shop window in Covent Garden, staring at a pair of miniature high-tops while your twin daughters attempt to dismantle the rain cover of their Bugaboo...

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The brutal truth about infant wardrobes and diaper blowouts

My mother-in-law walked into my recovery room and immediately tried to put a fleece hat on my two-day-old son. An hour later, the lactation consultant breezed in and told me to strip him down to his diaper so he wouldn't...

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The Truth About Zara Baby: Sizing, Shrinking, And Alternatives

When I was pregnant with my first, everybody and their mother had an opinion on how to dress a baby. My own mom, bless her heart, dragged me to the department store and loaded my cart with neon orange monkey...

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How We Built a Baby Saja Costume (Without the Meltdown)

I was holding a detached, highly synthetic faux-collar in my left hand while my eleven-month-old son actively tried to eat a teal polyester wig. This was iteration one of the baby Saja outfit, ordered at 2 AM from a drop-shipping...

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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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