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An unplugged flat iron cooling precariously close to a crawling baby on a tile bathroom floor.

The Truth About Baby Bliss (And Why It Doesn't Have a Power Cord)

The smell of singed nylon bathmat is something that stays with you. I was standing in my cramped Chicago bathroom, trying to salvage two hours of sleep with some under-eye concealer, when Kiran started doing his signature banshee wail from...

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Why We Traded Stuffy Showers for the Modern Co-Ed Baby Bash

I'm sitting on a pastel-pink velvet chair in a suburban banquet hall watching my cousin unwrap her nineteenth burp cloth. Someone is measuring her waist with toilet paper while a group of aunts I haven't seen since my wedding stare...

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Priya sitting on nursery floor surrounded by empty registry boxes and breast pump parts.

What I wish I knew about getting free baby gear without the scams

Listen. You're currently sitting on the floor of our Chicago apartment, eight months pregnant, staring blankly at a cardboard box. It's a Tuesday. You're crying because the internet promised you a mountain of complimentary infant supplies, and all you've to...

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The clinical and emotional reality of dead babies in our world

Before I had my own kid, I thought I understood how the worst-case scenario worked. I used to sit in the pediatric ICU breakroom at three in the morning, drinking lukewarm coffee out of a styrofoam cup, charting the vital...

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Sarah drinking coffee while reading about the Skai Jackson baby drama on her phone.

The Skai Jackson Drama & Real Talk On Postpartum Stress

When I was six months pregnant with Maya—who's now seven and currently trying to teach our golden retriever how to use my husband's iPad—I got three very distinct pieces of unsolicited advice in the span of one Tuesday. My mother-in-law...

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Why the Sparkle Megan Baby Drama Hits Hard for Exhausted Dads

It was 3:14 AM on our second night home from the hospital, and I was holding a cold, wet wipe in my teeth while trying to untangle a tiny, thrashing leg from a heavily soiled sleep sack, desperately hoping my...

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Finding A Sugar Dating Platform On My Niece's Phone Broke My Brain

There I was, elbow-deep in a laundry basket of spit-up stained onesies on my back porch, trying to untangle a rogue sock from my toddler's overalls while swatting away Texas mosquitoes. My nineteen-year-old niece was visiting from college and had...

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How the Baby Jessica Rescue Made Me Fear My Own Back Garden

Tuesday morning, 11:14 AM. Florence has somehow managed to wedge her entire left leg into an exposed drainage pipe near the rhododendrons. I'm frozen in the doorway holding a half-empty mug of lukewarm builder's tea, watching my two-year-old attempt to...

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What The Baby Garnet Case Taught Me About Postpartum Survival

Dear Sarah from six months ago, You're currently sitting on the cold bathroom floor at 3:14 AM. You're wearing Dave’s oversized gray fleece—the one from college that smells vaguely of sour milk and desperation—and you're staring at the grout lines...

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