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The Truth About Baby Doge Coin & Real Pet Safety With Infants

The glare from my phone screen was absolutely blinding at 2:13 in the morning while I was trapped under thirty-two pounds of sleeping toddler and nursing my newest arrival in our creaky nursery glider. I was just trying to do...

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The Emmanuel Haro Case: Facing The Real Threat To Our Babies

I was sitting on my living room floor knee-deep in a pile of shipping mailers for my Etsy shop, trying to desperately fold laundry with my other hand while the baby was miraculously asleep for five consecutive minutes, when the...

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Finding a baby bat in your house and other midnight terrors

My mate Dave from the pub told me the best way to handle the situation was with a pint glass and a beer mat, as if I were dealing with a slightly aggressive bluebottle in a beer garden. My mother-in-law,...

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The atom bomb baby panic and why you need to log off right now

It's two in the morning and the blue light from the television is flickering down the hallway of my Chicago apartment. My husband is awake, playing that massive post-apocalyptic video game again. The volume is turned down to a mere...

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Why Your Innocent TV Search Could Show Your Toddler an R-Rated Movie

It was 3:17 AM on a Tuesday, and I was quite literally running on a half-eaten sleeve of stale saltines and the sheer desperate hope that my eight-month-old would just close her eyes. She had been screaming since midnight, teething...

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Dear Past Jess: What I Wish I Knew Before Buying a Baby Pool Float

Dear Jess from last May, I know you're currently hyperventilating beside the inflatable kiddie pool, tasting cheap PVC plastic because you lost the air pump again, while Jacksonβ€”our lovely, feral four-year-oldβ€”is threatening to launch himself off the patio furniture into...

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The Day My Toddler Tried To Steal A Baby Emu At The Local Texas Farm

I was knee-deep in East Texas mud, holding my oldest son by the straps of his denim overalls so he wouldn’t launch himself into a wire fence, while a six-foot-tall dinosaur of a bird stared a hole straight through my...

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What the Baby Emmanuel Parents Taught Me About Child Safety

I was wearing Mark's ancient grey fraternity t-shirt with the mysterious bleach stain on the collar, sitting on the edge of the cold porcelain bathtub at 2:14 AM. Leo, my youngest, was going through his extremely fun "I only sleep...

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Why we really need to talk about the ugly side of baby headbands

You pull it out of the tissue paper at your baby shower. It's a stiff nylon elastic band attached to a sequined peony the size of a small cabbage. The aunties in the room coo over it, telling you how...

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