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The Absolute Sweat-Soaked Truth About Buying Baby Girl Dresses

It was 2 PM, the sun was literally laughing at us, and I was holding a plastic cup of iced coffee that was basically just brown water at that point. We were at my cousin Rachel’s outdoor wedding in August...

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The 3 AM Eczema Meltdown That Changed How I Dress My Kids

It was 3:14 AM in a stuffy, overheated Airbnb in Zermatt, and I was wearing my husband Mark’s oversized Ramones t-shirt that still smelled vaguely like airplane air and desperation. Maya was four months old, and she was screaming a...

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The Nightly Bubble Bath Lie and Finding Safe Soap for Babies

I was standing in the middle of a Target aisle at eight o'clock at night with spit-up down my back, staring blankly at a giant wall of purple, lavender-scented bottles promising me the world. My firstborn was three months old,...

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Raising a Black baby: A glitch report to my past self

It's 3:14 AM. I'm currently staring at the humidity sensor output for the nursery, trying to correlate a 4% drop in ambient moisture with why our son has been awake since one in the morning. I'm writing this to you,...

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Dear Past Priya: The Truth About the Diddy Baby Oil Situation

You're standing in aisle fourteen of the Belmont Target right now. Your toddler is actively trying to consume a cardboard price tag she peeled off the shelf. You're holding a familiar pink bottle of mineral oil because you thought it...

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The Big Baby Detergent Scam (And How I Actually Do Laundry)

I was standing in my laundry room at 3 AM in a pair of sour-milk-stained sweatpants, holding a twenty-four-dollar jug of baby detergent and straight-up sobbing. My oldest, Beau, was upstairs covered in angry red hives, and my mom was...

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Dear Past Me: The Truth About Aquaphor Baby and Drool Rashes

You're standing in aisle fourteen of the Target on Roosevelt Road, holding a tub of regular healing ointment in your left hand and the infant version in your right. It's two in the morning. Your daughter is at home with...

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Dear Past Tom: The Truth About Achieving That Baby Smoove Skin

Dear Tom from six months ago, You're currently sitting on the cold tiles of the downstairs loo at 3:14 AM, the only room in the house where you can turn on a light without waking your wife or the twins....

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The brutal truth about infant wardrobes and diaper blowouts

My mother-in-law walked into my recovery room and immediately tried to put a fleece hat on my two-day-old son. An hour later, the lactation consultant breezed in and told me to strip him down to his diaper so he wouldn't...

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