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A bewildered dad looking at his newborn baby's cone-shaped head in a hospital room

Surviving A Cone Head Baby: When Your Newborn Looks Like An Alien

I had a spreadsheet for everything. Diaper count, precise bassinet temperature, best swaddle torque. But nowhere in my forty-two tabs of prenatal research did I account for the moment the delivery nurse handed me a creature whose skull looked like...

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Why The Crack Baby Mitski Search Term Ruined My Tuesday Night

I was sitting cross-legged on the floor at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday, elbow-deep in a basket of sour-smelling toddler pajamas, when I saw it. The family iPad, which is supposed to be locked down tighter than Fort Knox, was...

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Two modern wooden baby beds side by side in a dimly lit nursery

What Nobody Tells You About Buying Cribs for Babies

I was sitting on the floor of what used to be my home office, dripping sweat onto a set of Scandinavian assembly instructions, clutching a tiny Allen key like a weapon. It was 2am. My wife was heavily pregnant with...

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The Truth About The Cringe Ass Nae Nae Baby Meme & Sharenting

I was sitting in our local coffee shop back in 2018, wearing this horrifying mustard yellow sweater that I genuinely thought made me look like a cool Brooklyn creative but actually just made me look jaundiced. It was raining outside—that...

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Frustrated mom holding a crying baby in a nursery late at night

The Truth About Cry Baby Perfume & Why Fragrance Ruins Naptime

The clock on the microwave said 2:13 AM, and my living room smelled exactly like burnt caramel and aggressive strawberry milk. I was pacing the floorboards in my ratty nursing bra, bouncing my youngest—who we affectionately call Baby P—while he...

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Why That Viral Cry Baby Popmart Figure Isn't Actually For Your Baby

I was standing at my kitchen sink, elbow-deep in cold oatmeal dishwater, when my 14-year-old niece shoved her phone directly into my face. On the screen was what looked like a perfectly round, tear-streaked child stuffed inside a tiny, fuzzy...

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Mom pulling a stroller wagon loaded with kids and baby gear at a local park.

The Brutally Honest Truth About the Viral Baby Trend Wagon Myth

It’s 98 degrees in the Target parking lot, and I'm sweating entirely through my shirt trying to aggressively shove a forty-pound cardboard box into the back of my minivan while my three-year-old licks a shopping cart handle. That box held...

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Exhausted dad holding a baby nappy up to the light at 3am trying to figure out if neon mustard yellow is normal.

Dear Past Tom: A Warning About The Dijon Mustard Situation

Dear Past Tom, You're probably reading this while standing in the maternity ward bathroom, staring at a tiny, screaming human you met roughly four hours ago. You're holding a nappy under the harsh fluorescent light, and you're sweating. You've just...

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Tired dad holding a sleeping baby while wearing headphones in a dimly lit nursery.

Playing Bread Baby I'm-a Want You Fixed Our 3AM Sleep Crisis

It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm writing this to you—which is to say, me, six months ago—while our son screams into my left clavicle like a dial-up modem failing to connect. I know exactly where you're right now...

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