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How Long Can A Baby Sleep In A Bassinet Before You Lose It

Dear Sarah from exactly four years and six months ago, It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. You're wearing Dave’s stained college lacrosse t-shirt, the one with the hole near the left armpit, and you've literally been staring at Leo for...

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Why I Went Down a Late-Night Rabbit Hole About Crib Scandals

I was holding a 20-volt DeWalt impact driver in one hand and a piece of splintered, ostensibly non-toxic mahogany in the other when my wife gently suggested from the doorway that I was "doing it wrong." It was a Tuesday...

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When Is It Safe to Give Your Baby a Blanket?

I was exactly three weeks into this whole motherhood gig when I almost gave myself a heart attack. My oldest son, Carterβ€”who exists mostly now as a walking cautionary tale for everything I did wrong as a first-time momβ€”was born...

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When Do Babies Discover Their Feet: A Letter to My Anxious Self

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're sitting on the nursery rug at 3 AM. The glow of the humidifier is casting weird shadows on the wall, and your kid is lying flat on his back, staring at the ceiling...

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When Do Babies Switch To One Nap

I'm currently staring at a baby monitor that displays a room temperature of exactly 68.4 degrees and an 11-month-old standing in his crib, aggressively shaking the rails like a tiny, sleep-deprived prisoner. It's 10:15 AM. This is supposed to be...

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When to Move Baby to Their Own Room Without Losing Your Mind

I was standing in the Target baby aisle holding a three-pack of pacifiers and staring blankly into space when it happened. Maya was about four months old, strapped to my chest in a carrier, blowing those aggressive little spit bubbles...

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How to survive a woven baby wrap without losing your mind

I was standing in the hallway at two in the morning. Maya was screaming the kind of red-faced scream that sets off your fight or flight response. I was holding a five-meter strip of linen like it was a giant...

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The Messy Truth About Trying to Dream Feed Baby Every Night

My foot found the only rogue plastic dinosaur left on the rug at 10:43 PM. I bit my lip so hard I tasted copper, balancing a warm bottle of pumped milk in my left hand while trying not to breathe...

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Do Babies Sleep More When Teething? The Exhausting Truth

I was staring at the glowing green screen of the baby monitor at 2:14 PM on a Tuesday, completely paralyzed by a mixture of deep relief and mounting panic. Florence and Matilda had been asleep for two and a half...

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