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The Real Baby Mama Cast: Surviving Postpartum Without Hollywood

It's 3:14 in the morning. You're covered in sour milk, eating a piece of cold toast over the kitchen sink, and watching a rerun of some mid-2000s comedy on cable. The one with the famous comedic actresses. You look at...

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What Being a Baby Mama Actually Means Off the Internet

I was sitting on the floor of my guest bedroomβ€”which I generously call my "Etsy shipping headquarters"β€”with packing tape stuck to my thigh, listening to a 90s hip-hop playlist, when a song came on loudly dropping the phrase "baby mama."...

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The completely unglamorous truth about baby milk

You're standing in your kitchen at 3 AM holding a plastic container of white liquid up to the harsh microwave light. The baby is screaming in the other room. You're trying to remember if the water was supposed to go...

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Surviving Baby’s First New Year's Eve Without Losing Your Mind

I spent my oldest son’s first New Year’s Eve sitting on the tile floor of our guest bathroom in the pitch black, violently shushing him while my husband stuffed rolled-up towels under the door frame. Jackson was barely seven months...

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Why a baby harp seal cured my ridiculous mom guilt

The rhythmic, mechanical wheezing of my breast pump at 3:17 AM is the soundtrack to my biggest parenting epiphanies. There I was with my oldest kid, Liam, about four years ago. I was exhausted, leaking milk onto a pile of...

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The brutal reality of picking rare names for your daughter

I spent three years working the night shift on the maternity floor at Rush. You want to know the actual hardest part of the job. It wasn't the meconium blowouts or the frantic monitor alarms at two in the morning....

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What Nicole Kidman actually gets right about maternal burnout

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the bathroom tiles at three in the morning. The radiator is making that hissing sound you hate. Your daughter just threw up milk on your only clean sweatpants, and you're...

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Why That Baby Farm Netflix Series Messed Up My Sleep Schedule

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the edge of the faux-leather glider at two in the morning. Your little beta is finally asleep against your chest, her breathing heavy and rhythmic. You're wired. You're holding your...

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Mom in rural Texas wearing her baby in a structured carrier while packing boxes.

Why My Spine Hated Me Until I Finally Figured Out Baby Ergo Rules

It was August 2019 at the Blanco County Fair, and I was actively regretting every life decision that had led me to that exact moment. I was sweating through a cheap polyester carrier I’d grabbed off a clearance rack, my...

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