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A startled British dad staring down at a wolf spider carrying spiderlings on the nursery floor

The 2am baby wolf spider encounter that changed my parenting

It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, and the London flat was entirely silent except for the rhythmic, congested breathing of Twin A, or possibly Twin B, since they frequently swap beds just to gaslight me. I was on a...

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Dear Past Me: Please Stop Stressing Over the Baby Weight Chart

I was cleaning out my messy Google Drive about 6 months agoβ€”looking for a recipe I never ended up makingβ€”and I found a draft of a letter I had started writing to my past self. I was looking at old...

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The Great Wheeled Walker Delusion (And What We Do Instead)

My mother-in-law proudly dragged it out of her attic last Tuesday like she was presenting me with the Holy Grail of parenting. It was a plastic, UFO-looking contraption with eight swiveling casters, a faded sticker of a bear, and a...

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Surviving the Baby Walker With Wheels (A Twin Dad's Story)

I was precisely halfway through pouring a vaguely warm coffee down my throat when Florence broke the indoor land speed record. We have a narrow Victorian hallway in our London terrace, which is entirely unsuitable for anything wider than a...

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Why I Stopped Listening to Every Tiny Nursery Sound

It was 2:14 AM and I was sitting on the edge of the bathtub in Dave’s college sweatpantsβ€”the ones with the unidentified bleach stain on the left kneeβ€”staring at a glowing plastic screen like it held the secrets to the...

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The 3 AM Baby Vicks Rub Panic and How I Finally Got My Kid to Sleep

It was exactly 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in mid-November, and I was standing in the middle of the nursery wearing yesterday’s yoga pants with an unidentifiable crusty stain on the knee, holding a half-empty mug of room-temperature coffee that...

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Exhausted dad holding two babies with colorful plasters on their thighs after their eight-week immunisations.

Navigating the Baby Vaccine Schedule Without Losing Your Mind

There's a very specific type of sweat that forms on your lower back when you're trying to maneuver a double buggy through the aggressively narrow doors of an NHS GP surgery. You're already ten minutes late, one of the babies...

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The Midnight Maths of Baby Fever Medicine

The iPhone torch was wedged firmly between my teeth, casting a terrifying Blair Witch underglow across the nursery while I squinted at a tiny, sticky plastic syringe. It was 3:14 AM. Twin A was screaming in a pitch that vibrated...

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Why the relaxing baby tub routine is actually a massive lie

I'm currently staring at a puddle of lukewarm water slowly seeping into the grout of my bathroom floor, while somewhere in the distance, a rogue rubber duck is wedged firmly behind the loo. My knees are making a noise that...

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