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Frustrated mom adjusting a rear-facing baby car seat in the Texas summer heat.

The Sweaty, Stressful Reality of Baby Car Travel and Seat Safety

I was heavily pregnant with my second, sweating completely through my maternity tank top in a Target parking lot in the middle of July, trying to rip an infant seat base out of my husband's truck so I could move...

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Surviving the Frilly Nightmare of Cute Baby Girl Clothes

I'm currently standing in the disabled toilet of a Costa Coffee in Wandsworth, staring in abject horror at my daughter’s back. She is wearing a gift from a well-meaning great-auntβ€”a vintage-style, sage green dress featuring no fewer than fourteen microscopic...

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Chunky baby boy thighs in comfortable organic cotton retro ribbed shorts

Stop Buying Tiny Suits: The Truth About Dressing Baby Boys

I'm currently staring at a giant plastic tote bin in my garage, holding a pair of stiff, mustard-yellow baby corduroy overalls that still have the tags on them. Next to them is a tiny plaid button-down shirt that feels suspiciously...

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Exhausted mom holding a messy baby in a cute baby tee while drinking coffee

The Completely Unfiltered Reality Behind the Cute Baby Aesthetic

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in late November, and I was wearing an oversized, pill-covered grey fleece robe that smelled violently of sour milk and desperation. My daughter Maya was exactly seven weeks old. I was holding her...

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The Truth About Custom Baby Onesies: A Letter To My Past Self

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. It's October 14th, 2:13 AM, and you're sitting on the very edge of the living room rug, wearing those disgusting gray fleece college sweatpants with the mysterious bleach stain on the left knee...

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A dad looking confused holding a personalized baby swaddle in a nursery

The Real Reason Babies Never Actually Sleep With Custom Blankets

There's a massive disconnect between the baby gear you think you need before the kid arrives and the reality of keeping a tiny human alive. Before our son Leo was born, my mental image of fatherhood involved a lot of...

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A tired mom holding a fussy infant in a dimly lit kitchen at 3 AM

Skip the 90s Movie: How to Actually Soothe a Screaming Baby

It's 3:14 AM. I'm standing barefoot on the cold linoleum of my kitchen, frantically typing into my phone with my left thumb while my right arm is going completely numb from holding a rigid, screaming infant. In my sleep-deprived delusion,...

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The Truth About Crocheted Baby Blankets (And Keeping Toes Attached)

It was 2am, roughly six weeks before the twins were due, and I was sweating profusely over a plastic hook and a spool of aggressively yellow yarn. I had somehow convinced myself that real fatherhood began with mastering basic patterns...

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A tired father holding a screaming newborn in a dimly lit kitchen.

Surviving the evening screams with your sanity mostly intact

There was a specific time, 6:13 PM to be exact, when the atmosphere in our London flat would shift from manageable chaos to complete psychological warfare. You could set a watch by it. The girls would be lying there, looking...

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