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What to Do When You Feel Less Fetal Movement in the Third Trimester

My mother-in-law told me babies just get lazy at the end. The girl in my prenatal yoga class said her doula claims fetuses enter a deep meditative state to prepare for birth. A random mom on the internet said to...

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How Does Preeclampsia Affect the Baby? My NICU Story

It's 2:14 PM on a Tuesday and I'm wearing these absolutely hideous mustard-colored maternity leggings that I bought on clearance at Target, sweating through my third cup of lukewarm decaf. I'm sitting on that terrible crinkly paper of the exam...

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The Absurd Reality of Raising a Hemangioma Baby (And Not Dying)

If you ever find yourself holding your phone's flashlight inches from your sleeping infant's shoulder at three in the morning while furiously typing "rapidly growing bright red lump" into a search engine, just shut the laptop and go to sleep,...

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Halle Bailey inspired guide to navigating baby privacy and boundaries

The Halle Bailey Baby Guide to Setting Firm Internet Boundaries

I was standing near the NHS hospital vending machine, running entirely on stale Wotsits and pure adrenaline, when I made my first catastrophic parenting error. Instead of texting my mum a deeply unflattering, slightly terrifying photo of my newborn twins...

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Where is Lil Baby From? Answering Your Kid's Hardest Questions

I was wrestling a shopping cart with a violently shaking left wheel through the Target clearance aisle, trying to decide if I really needed another wire basket to hold the junk I haven't sorted since Christmas, when my four-year-old yelled...

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When To Have Baby Shower: A Mom's Blunt Guide To Timing It

I was standing in the middle of Aisle 4 at Target with a registry scanner gun in my hand, sweating profusely in a maternity cardigan that was clearly lying about being breathable, when my mom called to demand a date...

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Exactly when do you feel baby kick: A very unscientific timeline

If you read the glowing, sepia-toned maternity forums, you’d think the very first time you feel a tiny foot move is a transcendent, magical event accompanied by a soaring acoustic guitar soundtrack. This is a spectacular lie. My wife was...

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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...

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The 3 AM baby doll lingerie search trap and safe sleep reality

My thumb hovered over the phone screen while my two-month-old used my left shoulder as a mattress. It was three in the morning. I was trying to remember if I gave him his baby d drops, while simultaneously trying to...

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