Can Babies Eat Baby Doll Pizza? The Takeout Incident
I was standing on Stark Street in Portland in a light drizzle, holding a lukewarm oat milk flat white that cost entirely too much money, while my husband Dave balanced a massive, grease-stained cardboard box on his hip. We were...
Dear Priya: The messy truth about feeding a buttermilk baby
Listen. You're currently standing in the dairy aisle at Patel Brothers, staring at the cartons of cultured buttermilk and traditional chaas, having a mild internal crisis. Your mom has been asking for weeks when her precious granddaughter can finally have...
The Truth About Chili's Baby Back Ribs For Your Weaning Toddler
It's half past five on a dreary Tuesday, and I'm staring at my twin daughters who look less like children and more like they've just survived a highly localised explosion in a barbecue sauce factory. One of them is wielding...
Finding the Best Organic Baby Formula (Without Losing Your Mind)
Dear Tom of two years ago, You're currently standing in the kitchen in yesterday's tracksuit bottoms, using the dim light of the microwave to read the German instructions on a tin of imported infant milk. Both twins are screaming upstairs...
Why Homemade Baby Suji Saved My Grocery Budget and My Sanity
"Just give him rice cereal in a bottle," my grandma told me over the phone while I was actively scraping a dried crust of mashed banana off my kitchen cabinets. "No, skip grains entirely, meat only," a girl in my...
The Absolute Terror Of Feeding Your Baby Shrimp For The First Time
I was standing over the kitchen sink at exactly 8:14 AM on a Tuesday, wearing sweatpants that definitely had three-day-old oatmeal on the thigh, aggressively staring at a single, grey, frozen crustacean. My husband Mark was hovering over my shoulder...
Feeding Your Baby Salmon: The Bones, The Smell, The Absolute Mess
It was a Tuesday around 6:15 PM, and I was wearing my one good silk shirt. Why I was wearing a dry-clean-only Madewell top in my own kitchen while feeding a six-month-old is a mystery that I'll take to my...
The Absolute Real Truth About Having a Sugar Baby 2024 Edition
I was literally standing in the middle of the Target baby aisle on a Tuesday at 9 AM, wearing yesterday's yoga pants that definitely had dried oatmeal on the knee, holding a pouch of pureed pear and spinach, when my...
That night with a tainted blue baby changed my feeding rules
I was three hours into a Tuesday night triage shift when a terrified dad ran through the sliding doors holding an infant the exact color of a bruised eggplant. Listen. I've seen a thousand of these panicked parents sprinting into...