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RealCare Baby Simulators: The Brutal Truth About How They Work

I found it wedged between a moldy juice box and a soccer cleat in the back of my sister's Honda Odyssey. A stiff, heavy, unblinking plastic infant. My sixteen-year-old niece was slouched in the passenger seat, staring at it with...

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The Absolute Absurdity of the Baby Doll Carrier (And Why We Own Two)

My mother-in-law firmly believes that giving a two-year-old their own miniature baby wearing apparatus is mildly ridiculous and encourages them to grow up entirely too fast. The woman at our Tuesday morning playgroupβ€”who wears floor-length unbleached linen in the dead...

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Why Learning Pretty Little Baby Chords Beats Playing Mozart

Three years ago, I was sitting on my cheap living room rug, sweating through my nursing tank top, frantically trying to sync a Bluetooth speaker to a twelve-hour Spotify playlist called "Mozart For Genius Brain Development." My oldest son, the...

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A soft organic cotton baby doll resting on a folded woodland print blanket.

Choosing my first baby doll before the new sibling arrives

My daughter was holding the plastic newborn by its left ankle, dragging its bald, rigid head across the kitchen tile like a club. The eyes clicked open and shut with every hollow bounce. I was seven months pregnant with baby...

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Exhausted British dad reading a fantasy webtoon on his phone while holding twin babies in the dark.

Lord Baby Runs a Romance Fantasy With Cash 92 vs. My Twins

The digital clock on the nursery wall glared at me: 3:14 AM. The room smelled distinctly of stale Calpol and desperation. In the left cot, Evie was violently chewing the wooden bars like a tiny, furious beaver. In the right...

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A cardboard box with a heat lamp and yellow baby chicks inside.

What I Wish I Knew Before Feeding Our Backyard Baby Chicks

Dear Sarah of exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting in the driver's seat of the Subaru in the Tractor Supply parking lot. Your iced coffee is sweating all over the center console, you're wearing that stained gray college sweatshirt...

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Mom looking shocked at a tablet screen while her toddler plays with wooden toys on the floor.

The Baby Fairy is a Villain Manhwa Is Definitely Not for Kids

I was sitting on the sticky playroom floor last Tuesday, nursing my youngest while trying to fish a dried Cheerio out of my hair, when my oldest son Carter casually peered over my shoulder at my iPad. I had just...

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Seven year old girl smiling to show the gap from her first lost front tooth

The Bloody, Wobbly Truth About When Kids Lose Their Baby Teeth

It was Tuesday morning. 6:14 AM to be exact. I was standing in the kitchen staring blindly at the coffee maker, wearing a vintage 90s baby tee that had somehow shrunk in the wash to the size of a napkin...

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Mother looking at a smartphone with a concerned expression in a dim living room

Why A Baby Ashlee Telegram Search Is A Huge Red Flag For Parents

The glowing screen of my twelve-year-old nephew's borrowed iPad illuminated my dark living room at two in the morning. My toddler was going through an absolute nightmare of a sleep regression, and I just needed to cast a ten-hour brown...

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