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The Middle-of-the-Night Panic Search For Your Baby's First Tooth

I was staring at the ceiling of our Chicago apartment at 3:14 AM. The radiator was clanking. My son was gnawing on my collarbone like a starving hyena. His chin was a waterfall of drool, soaking right through my third...

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Is My Baby Turning Blue Or Am I Just Sleep-Deprived And Panicking?

When we started weaning the twins, I received three distinct, entirely contradictory pieces of advice within a single twenty-four-hour period. My mother, dispensing wisdom from the 1990s, called to say, "Whatever you do, Tommy, don't give them carrots yet, they'll...

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The Day a Fuzzy Yard Invader Taught Me About Triage

I was holding a lukewarm cup of chai, watching my toddler try to eat a fistful of Chicago dirt, when I saw it. A tiny, masked face peering out from under our cedar deck. It looked like a stuffed animal...

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The Honest Truth About Baby Poop (And What Is Actually Normal)

I was holding a flashlight between my teeth at 3:15 AM, trying to angle my phone camera just perfectly so I didn't get a glare off the shiny puddle of what looked like alien slime in my oldest son's diaper....

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The ugly truth about that cute baby pool float you just bought

My sister-in-law's backyard in Naperville smells intensely of expensive mineral sunscreen and chlorine. It's mid-July, the humidity is oppressive, and I'm standing at the edge of the water holding a thrashing nine-month-old. My mother-in-law is hovering nearby, aggressively trying to...

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A tired mother looking at her phone in a dimly lit nursery while her baby sleeps.

A letter to myself about the baby maverick internet obsession

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're sitting in the dark right now with the glow of your phone lighting up the nursery wall. Your baby is asleep in the crib, breathing perfectly fine, but you're wide awake. The algorithm...

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A tired dad holding a twin girl with a slightly chapped mouth in winter.

The Absolute Panic Over Baby Lips During a Harsh London Winter

It's exactly 6:14 am on a Tuesday, and I'm staring at my daughter’s face under the harsh, unforgiving glow of my phone's flashlight. Outside, the London winter is doing that thing where it isn't actually snowing but the damp air...

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Dad holding an 11-month-old baby wearing a wide-brimmed baby sun hat on a bright summer day.

The Firmware Update I Needed On Finding The Best Baby Sun Hat

We're standing in the middle of a park in southeast Portland, the wind's blowing cottonwood seeds right into my open mouth, and I'm desperately trying to tie a floppy piece of UPF fabric under my 11-month-old's chin while he thrashes...

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The Honest Truth About Putting Tiny Ugg Boots on Your Infant

I was standing in the slush outside a Starbucks in 2018, clutching my third iced latte of the morning because uninterrupted sleep was a literal myth, staring down at my six-month-old son's foot. Or rather, his empty foot. Leo was...

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