The Brutal Truth About Teething: When Does the Drooling Actually End?
Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently packing a suspiciously large overnight bag. You've volunteered to watch your sister's five-month-old niece, Chloe, for a long weekend so she and her husband can go to a wedding. You're feeling...
The Unfiltered Truth About When Your Newborn Can Actually See You
I spent three months of my pregnancy painting a perfectly muted sage green mural on my son's nursery wall. I curated taupe crib sheets. I bought dusty rose swaddles. I spent an embarrassing amount of money making sure his room...
The brutal, messy truth about when your baby will finally sit up
I was sitting cross-legged on my living room rug, trapped in a fortress of couch cushions. My son, six months old and entirely unbothered by gravity, had just executed his fortieth faceplant of the morning. His grandmother was on FaceTime,...
When Can You Find Out Gender Of Baby? A Twin Dad's Honest Guide
I was standing in our galley kitchen on a miserable Tuesday afternoon, holding a plastic cup of my wifeβs morning urine in one hand and a slightly expired box of baking soda in the other. The internetβthat infinite void of...
The Great Melanin Firmware Update: A Dad's Guide to Eye Color
Hey Marcus from six months ago. You're currently standing by the window in our perpetually gray Portland living room, angling a five-month-old infant toward the meager sunlight, trying to determine if her irises are hex code #4B5320 (Army Green) or...
When Do Babies Start Cooing? A Real Mom's Guide to Early Sounds
I was sweating through my third nursing tank of the day in the cab of my F-150 outside the local feed store in mid-July. My oldest, Wyatt, was exactly eight weeks old and sitting in his car seat looking at...
When Do Babies Talk? The Truth About First Words
I'm currently sitting on a rug that used to be cream-coloured, staring at a half-eaten rice cake that has just been forcefully shoved into my left ear, while my daughter Maya screams "BA!" with the intensity of a Victorian ghost....
That Midnight Panic Over Exactly When Babies Are Supposed To Walk
It was 2:13 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on the floor of my bathroom in the dark, violently scrolling through parenting forums on my phone while my 14-month-old oldest child, Beau, slept blissfully down the hall. We...
Surviving the "Babys at 30 Weeks" Search Spiral (And The Heartburn)
I found Sarah sitting on the cold kitchen tiles at 3:14 AM, illuminated entirely by the blue glare of her phone screen and eating dry Cheerios straight from the cardboard box. She looked up at me, eyes hollow with exhaustion,...