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A blurry photo of a baby throwing steamed green vegetables from a highchair.

Dear Past Me: How To Cook Baby Bok Choy & Baby Bok Choy Recipes

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, who's currently standing in the produce aisle of Whole Foods at 8 AM wearing yoga pants that have definitely seen better days and a fleece pullover covered in what I hope is yogurt....

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Stressed mom looking at a sticky bottle of pink baby benadryl liquid

The 2 AM Baby Benadryl Panic and What I Actually Did Instead

It's 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in February. The wind off Lake Michigan is rattling the windowpanes of our Chicago apartment, and my toddler is sitting on the bathroom counter looking like a lightly boiled lobster. We had tried a...

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A tired mom dealing with static postpartum hair regrowth around her hairline

Postpartum Baby Bangs: A Dad's Guide to the Hair Regrowth Glitch

Dear Marcus of six months ago: Put down the industrial drain snake and take a deep breath. I know you just pulled a clump of hair out of the shower drain that looks roughly the size of a wet squirrel,...

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Exhausted dad holding a wooden play gym toy while looking skeptically at a smartphone screen.

How The Creepy Screaming Ash Baby Internet Joke Ruined My Tuesday

My sister-in-law texted me at 6:15 AM demanding I lock all our household iPads in a fireproof safe because a "soot infant" is destroying the youth. My mate Dave replied to a WhatsApp group roughly forty-five minutes later arguing that...

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Dad trying to apply thick white mineral sunscreen to an actively squirming baby.

Debugging Baby Sun Safety: The Great Sunscreen Firmware Update

There's currently a streak of stark white zinc oxide smeared across the black upholstery of my Subaru, a matching smudge on my favorite dark t-shirt, and a suspicious clump stuck in my eleven-month-old’s left eyebrow. Somehow, despite dispensing what felt...

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Jess's baby in a frog-leg position wearing an organic cotton bodysuit

When Your Baby Refuses to Flip (My Honest Breech Experience)

I was thirty-six weeks pregnant with my oldest when the ultrasound tech got real quiet, typed something furiously on her little keyboard, and excused herself to get the doctor. Cut to twenty minutes later in the H-E-B parking lot where...

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Exhausted mom holding a crying newborn in a dimly lit nursery at 3 AM

The "Be My Baby" Delusion: Surviving Your First Year Alive

I'm sitting on the edge of a creaky glider at 4:17 AM while my oldest, Wyatt, arches his back like a feral cat who just got dipped in cold water. I remember standing there in the dark, smelling vaguely of...

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Tired mom tying a stretchy baby wrap in a living room

Why a 5-Yard Baby Wrap Saved My Sanity (and My Etsy Shop)

I was standing in the middle of my living room, openly weeping, completely tangled in what felt like a parachute. My oldest, Wyattβ€”who's now five and still the reason I've a twitch in my left eyeβ€”was six weeks old and...

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Dad looking exhausted holding two babies surrounded by useless baby products

Surviving the Absolute Avalanche of Useless Newborn Baby Stuff

At 34 weeks pregnant, my wife and I entered a fugue state in a suburban retail park and bought a machine specifically designed to heat baby wipes to exactly 37 degrees Celsius. I remember standing at the till, handing over...

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