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A very tired mom drinking coffee while staring at unassembled baby gear on a living room rug.

The Absolute Mess Of Buying Baby Gear (And What Actually Works)

It was 2017. November. A Tuesday, I think, and raining completely sideways. I was exactly thirty-two weeks pregnant with Maya, my second kid, and I was sitting completely cross-legged on the cold linoleum floor of aisle four at BuyBuyBaby (RIP...

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Dear Me: What I Wish I Knew About That Happy Baby Organic Formula

You're currently sitting on the edge of the bathtub, the bathroom door locked so your husband doesn't hear you crying, with your phone screen brightness turned down to one percent while you frantically google what the heck you're supposed to...

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A tired dad scrolling his phone in the dark while a baby sleeps in a crib

What an elon musk baby mama taught me about dad anxiety

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and my 11-month-old son was doing this weird, rhythmic dolphin-screech breathing in my arms. Every time I tried to transfer him to the crib, his internal gyroscope detected the change in altitude and...

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Surviving Baby's First Christmas (Without Losing Your Mind)

I was on my hands and knees under the dining room table at six in the morning, trying to fish a soggy clump of metallic green wrapping paper out of my oldest son's throat while he screamed like a banshee....

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A tired mother looking at her phone in a dark nursery

A late night letter to myself about the baby gap discount code

Dear Priya from last November. You're sitting in the dark. The baby is finally down after three false starts. Your phone screen is blinding you because you forgot to turn on night mode. You're staring at a cart containing fourteen...

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Tired mother sitting beside a baby delight bassinet in a dimly lit nursery

Why The Baby Delight Bassinet Might Actually Save Your Sanity

It was 3:14 in the morning, and I was staring at a fifteen-hundred-dollar spaceship of a smart sleeper that my colicky firstborn was currently screaming bloody murder inside of. That was the exact moment I realized the biggest myth in...

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Stressed mom holding a baby in a plain white bodysuit in a waiting room

The Brutal Reality of Baby Modeling: What I Wish I Knew Beforehand

I was sweating completely through my only clean maternity bra in a strip mall off I-35 in Dallas, holding a screaming eight-month-old while twelve other perfectly coifed infants stared at us in dead, judgmental silence. My oldest son, who's now...

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A toddler playing with wooden blocks and a baby gym on the living room floor.

What Raising a Baby, a Billionaire, and Me Have in Common

I was six months pregnant with my oldestβ€”who, bless his heart, has become my walking cautionary tale for every single parenting mistake in the bookβ€”when three completely different people cornered me at my baby shower with unsolicited advice on how...

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Toddler throwing a tantrum over wearing pants next to a pile of outgrown clothes.

The Brutal Truth About Kinder Kleider: Clothes That Actually Fit

"Buy them a size up so they get two seasons out of it," my mom told me over the phone while I was staring blankly at a rack of toddler jeans, trying to figure out if the waist looked wide...

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