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The Unfiltered Shift From Mother To Baby: What I Actually Learned

I'm currently staring at a dried crust of spit-up on my left shoulder that has been there since Tuesday, and honestly, I don't have the energy to change my shirt. I’m bouncing my youngest on my hip while trying to...

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Is the Newton Baby Crib Mattress Really Worth Three Hundred Bucks?

My mom told me to put my firstborn on his stomach with a heavy quilt "so he feels secure like he's still in the womb." The lactation consultant at the hospital swore he needed to sleep on my bare chest...

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A clueless dad's guide to buying Nike baby shoes and apparel

We're at Washington Park in Portland, and the temperature is exactly 62.4 degrees. The sky has that flat, gray, overcast quality that makes for decent smartphone photos, which is great, because I've dressed my 11-month-old son like a backup dancer...

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Why the Nike Swoosh 1 Changed How I Think About Baby Shoes

It was a random Tuesday, maybe 9 AM, and I was wearing leggings that definitely hadn’t been washed since Sunday. I was hovering by the microwave, nursing my third cup of aggressively mediocre dark roast, when my mother-in-law dropped a...

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The Nintendo Baby Video Chat Hack That Saved My Postpartum Sanity

It was 3:14 AM, the absolute worst time of the night, and the only light in my Texas living room was the soft, blue glow of my TV screen. My oldest sonβ€”who I love dearly but who is the ultimate...

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Spiders, toddlers, and the absolute chaos of eight-legged pets

My brother-in-law told me a spiderling is the perfect first pet because it teaches quiet observation. My son's preschool teacher said bringing an arachnid into a house with a toddler is basically child endangerment. The guy at the local reptile...

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The Trouble With Baby SpongeBob (And Other Screen Time Fails)

It was 7:13 AM on a Tuesday, raining sideways against the kitchen window, and Evie was actively trying to consume a stray piece of dog kibble while her twin sister, Maisy, methodically unrolled an entire two-pound pack of toilet paper....

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Why You Need a Baby Sign Language Chart in Your Kitchen

I was standing barefoot on a kitchen floor completely covered in soggy, half-chewed Cheerios, furiously tapping my fingertips together at my red-faced nine-month-old while yelling over his screams about how he just needed to do the little hand thing if...

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Why Your Baby Shower Entrance Doesn't Need A Giant Plastic Poster

There I was, thirty-two weeks pregnant with Maya, standing behind the dumpsters of a suburban Italian restaurant with half a lukewarm iced coffee in my hand. I was wearing this floral maternity wrap dress that aggressively rode up every time...

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