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What is Jaundice in Babies? Surviving the Tiny Satsuma Phase

It was day three with the twins, and I was standing by our bedroom window in the bleak gray wash of a London November afternoon, holding Florence up to the light like a counterfeit twenty-pound note. She was asleep, completely...

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What Is Baby Powder Used For Now? The Truth For Modern Parents

I was wearing this horrific floral maternity dressβ€”the one with the giant sunflowers that basically made me look like a walking, heavily-breathing sofa from 1993β€”sitting on my sister’s beige rug opening gifts at my shower for Maya seven years ago....

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The Ugly Truth: What Is An Anchor Baby And Why The Myth Hurts

My auntie Sheila told me last Thanksgiving that getting a green card is as easy as dropping a newborn on American soil. Two days later, a charge nurse in the pediatric ICU complained that half our beds were taken up...

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The Baby Brezza Formula Reality Check for Sleep-Deprived Dads

I'm standing in the kitchen at 3:17 AM in a pair of grey jogging bottoms that have seen much better days, desperately trying to count to six. Just the number six. But when you've twin two-year-old girlsβ€”who were, at the...

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The Truth About Baby Cobra: Tummy Time Pushes and Insurance Panic

I was sitting at the kitchen table, staring at a stack of medical bills and listening to hold music from my insurance provider, while my four-month-old was face-planted on the rug trying to lift his unnervingly heavy head. The biggest...

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Surviving Baby Daycare: What I Believed vs What Actually Happened

I'm currently sitting in a 2014 Skoda Estate, engine off, staring blankly at a laminated sign that reads "Little Acorns" through a windscreen smeared with what I sincerely hope is just mashed banana. My twin daughters, Isla and Freya, are...

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The Real Baby Definition: Throwing Out The Dictionary Right Now

I was sitting on the floor of my bathroom at 2:14 AM wearing a deeply stained gray nursing bra and exactly one sock, aggressively typing "baby definition" into my phone with my left thumb while Maya, who was exactly five...

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What I got wrong about the great baby bassinet debate

I was staring at the ceiling fan at three in the morning, calculating how many consecutive minutes of sleep I had logged since Tuesday. It was twenty-eight. Next to me, my daughter was grunting like a tiny, angry pug in...

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Why Everyone Is Searching for That Baby Assassins Movie (And Other ...

It was exactly 2:14 PM last Tuesday. I know this because I was staring at the microwave clock, wearing my husband Mark's grey college sweatpantsβ€”the ones with the inexplicable bleach stain near the kneeβ€”and waiting for my third cup of...

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