A letter to my past self about having a first IVF baby
I'm currently staring at a giant red plastic sharps container sitting entirely too close to my half-empty, ice-cold mug of coffee on the bathroom counter. Itβs six months ago, and my best friend Rachel is sobbing on the phone because...
Surviving Baby's First Christmas (Without Losing Your Mind)
I was on my hands and knees under the dining room table at six in the morning, trying to fish a soggy clump of metallic green wrapping paper out of my oldest son's throat while he screamed like a banshee....
The Urgent Care Algorithm: Surviving Your Baby's First Stitches
DO NOT ask Siri to calculate the total blood volume of an 11-month-old while said infant is actively bleeding onto your only decent living room rug. That's my primary takeaway from last Tuesday. I was trying to run the math...
The Truth About Tracking Your Baby Size by Week in Pregnancy
It was a Tuesday at like 9:15 AM, and I was exactly 24 weeks pregnant with Leo. I was sitting in the terrifyingly quiet waiting room of my OB-GYNβs office, sweating straight through my favorite grey Zara sweater even though...
What Age Do Babies Walk (And Why The Timeline Is A Total Lie)
My coffee was lukewarm, but the tension in the room was boiling. We were sitting on Maya's living room floor, and her kid had just taken three shaky, Frankenstein-style steps across the rug. He was nine months old. The other...
When Babies Roll Over: The Unexpected Chaos of the Milestone
It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday. The baby monitor on my nightstand was glowing with the kind of ominous infrared light that usually precedes a jump scare in a horror movie. I stared at the pixelated screen, trying to...
The Great Upright Wobble: A Guide to Your Baby Sitting Solo
I remember the exact Tuesday I tried to engineer my twin girls into a seated position using an architectural configuration of nursing pillows that would have made a civil engineer weep. I was absolutely convinced that if I just propped...
When Do Babies Roll: A First-Time Dad's Guide to the Midnight Flip
2:14 AM. The baby monitor is glowing like a radioactive brick on my nightstand. I'm staring at a grayscale pixel blob that's supposed to be my four-month-old daughter, except instead of lying flat on her back like a compliant little...
When Do Babies Roll From Back to Belly
The monitor glowed like a radioactive potato on my nightstand at 3:14 AM. Usually, my son was a static lump of swaddled cotton, entirely predictable in his lack of mobility. Tonight, the lump was gone, replaced by a flat, face-down...