Spotting Baby Ear Infection Symptoms In The Middle Of The Night
It was 2:14 AM and I was standing in the dark hallway swaying like a zombie while my second kid, Wyatt, aggressively yanked on his left earlobe and screamed into my collarbone. I remember staring at the shadow of the...
Surviving The Cast of Million Dollar Baby & Nursery Furniture
You're currently sitting on the floor of what used to be Dave's home office, wearing those gray maternity leggings with the yogurt stain on the left knee, crying into a lukewarm mug of decaf coffee. It's like, 11:45 PM on...
The Brutally Honest Truth About the Viral Baby Trend Wagon Myth
Itβs 98 degrees in the Target parking lot, and I'm sweating entirely through my shirt trying to aggressively shove a forty-pound cardboard box into the back of my minivan while my three-year-old licks a shopping cart handle. That box held...
Confessions on Raising a Brainy Baby Without Losing Your Mind
Dear Jess of six months ago: I see you sitting on the rug in our Texas living room, sweating through your shirt, surrounded by Mandarin language flashcards, trying to get a ten-week-old to focus on high-contrast black-and-white shapes while the...
New Baby What You Wishing For? The Brutal Truth About The First Year
I'm standing in my tiny, unventilated bathroom at 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in November, wearing a pair of mesh hospital underwear that I've somehow managed to launder and reuse because I refuse to let them go, holding my firstborn,...
Stop Crying Over Baby Weight: A Letter to My Sleep-Deprived Self
Dear Jess from six months ago, I see you. You're standing barefoot in the master bathroom at 3 AM. You're completely naked, holding a screaming, naked infant. You step on the cold digital scale, squinting in the dark to read...
The Hilarious, Tear-Stained Baby Steps Story Every Mom Needs
There I was on my hands and knees in the middle of our living room, sweating through my third messy mom bun of the day, holding a half-eaten cheese stick like a carrot in front of a very stubborn fourteen-month-old....
When Your Kid Folds in Half: Surviving a Frank Breech Baby Delivery
"Put a frozen bag of frozen peas on the top of your belly," my neighbor Shelly told me at the grocery store, cornering me between the canned beans and the tortillas. "Stand on your head in the swimming pool," my...
Why Every Baby Stock Image Is Lying to You About Safe Sleep
I was sitting on the floor of Leo's nurseryβwhich, by the way, was painted this color called "Sea Salt" that ultimately just looked like a bruised vein in the wrong lightβsweating entirely through my third nursing bra of the day....