That Time My Winter Layering Mistake Caused a Heat Rash on Baby
It was 3 AM in mid-January, pitch black outside, and the wind was howling against our drafty Texas farmhouse windows. I unzipped my youngest son’s fleece footie pajamas—the absurdly thick ones shaped like a brown bear with little ears on...
The Heaviest Baby Ever Born: Ultrasound Lies And My Giant Kid
I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant with Leo, sitting on crinkly white paper in a freezing cold exam room, wearing a pair of gray maternity leggings that I had definitely spilled iced coffee on earlier that morning. My ultrasound tech, a...
Why we sing hello my baby hello my honey at 3 AM to survive
Listen. Don't do what I did last Tuesday night. Don't stand in the dark swaying your screaming infant, realize you only know the chorus to the cartoon frog song, and try to pull up the hello my baby hello my...
The Henry Cavill Baby Era: What I Wish I Knew Before the Chaos
It was 6:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing barefoot on my freezing kitchen tiles, wearing my husband Tom’s oversized gray sweatpants—the ones with an unidentified, crusty yogurt stain on the left thigh that I keep forgetting to...
The Hey Baby Won't You Look My Way Lyrics & Infant Eye Contact
I'm lying flat on the faux-sheepskin rug of our nursery at 3:14 a.m., my face hovering uncomfortably close to Florence’s nose, aggressively humming a 2011 pop-rock anthem. I've been trying to get her to acknowledge my existence for forty-five minutes....
Exactly How Long Does RSV Last in Babies? A Dad's Viral Data Log
My mother-in-law texted me at 6 AM asking, "how is the babi doing?" because she stubbornly refuses to use autocorrect on her iPad. Two hours later, the barista at my local coffee shop confidently informed me that respiratory viruses are...
How Long to Cook Baby Back Ribs in Oven for Your Family
My hands were completely caked in a sticky paste of smoked paprika and brown sugar, my middle child was actively trying to ride our golden retriever like a pony through the living room, and I was just staring at three...
Exactly How Many Babies Are Born in the US Each Year?
It was 4:12 a.m. on a particularly bleak Tuesday when I found myself sliding down a demographic rabbit hole. Maya, who's technically twin A but behaves aggressively like a middle child, had decided that sleep was a social construct she...
The exact number of tiny teeth to expect (and how to survive them)
There I was, standing in our London kitchen at four in the morning with a screaming toddler on each hip, trying to sort through three entirely contradictory pieces of advice I’d received that week. My mother-in-law had cheerfully suggested rubbing...