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How A Weird Little Platypus Baby Cured My Milestone Anxiety

I was sitting on the freezing hexagonal tiles of our extremely cramped downstairs bathroom at 3:14 AM wearing a pair of Dave's gym shorts that I’d aggressively rolled up at the waist and a nursing tank covered in what I...

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I panic-googled Roblox pill babies at 2 AM so you do not have to

I was sitting on my brother’s couch in southeast Portland last Sunday, desperately trying to keep my squirming 11-month-old from eating a suspicious clump of golden retriever hair, when my nine-year-old nephew yelled into his gaming headset: "Bro, grab the...

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The Night I Dropped a Pill (And How We Survive Meds Now)

I was wearing my husband Dan’s threadbare college lacrosse t-shirt, it was 2:14 in the morning, and I was on my hands and knees with my iPhone flashlight in my mouth, frantically sweeping the kitchen floor with my bare hands....

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Debugging the photoshoot: When taking baby photos goes wrong

I'm balancing precariously on a plastic step stool, my phone hovering exactly 28 inches above the crib mattress, sweat pooling in the small of my back. Below me, my 11-month-old son is thrashing like a malfunctioning animatronic, actively destroying the...

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The 3 AM Meltdown That Made Me Believe in Custom Storybooks

It was exactly 3:14 AM. I know this because the glowing red numbers on the alarm clock were burning a hole into my retinas while I sat there nursing a three-day-old infant and chugging day-old cold brew that tasted profoundly...

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How Peppa Pig's New Arrival Fixed Our Sibling Transition Chaos

I was sitting cross-legged on a spectacularly stained rug, holding up a somewhat mangled stuffed rabbit and speaking in a high-pitched voice, trying to explain the concept of human gestation to my two-year-old twin daughters. They stared at me with...

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The Truth About Pehr Nursery Gear (And What Actually Matters)

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant with my oldest, sweating through a maternity tank top in the middle of a brutal Texas July, just staring at a pile of nursery gifts on the floor that made me want to cry. My...

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What the Patrick Mahomes Baby Taught Me About Surviving Three

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the floor of our laundry room, crying over a mountain of unmatched tiny socks while your two toddlers use your Etsy shipping boxes as a literal wrestling ring in the...

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My Papoose Baby Era: How I Survived The Clingy Newborn Phase

2:14 AM. A Tuesday in mid-November. I was standing in the middle of our tiny galley kitchen wearing a pair of maternity leggings that smelled vaguely of spit-up and stale coffee, desperately trying to wrap fifteen feet of gray stretchy...

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