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Exhausted mom looking at a mountain of scattered infant gear in her living room

The Brutal Truth About Baby Products From A Tired Nurse

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. I was sitting on my Chicago apartment floor surrounded by thirty-two cardboard boxes of varying sizes, smelling vaguely of spit-up and fenugreek. My son was three weeks old and screaming in that specific...

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Baby bundled in winter layers looking out a frosty window

Baby Its Cold Outside: A Chicago Nurse's Winter Survival Guide

The wind coming off Lake Michigan felt like tiny shards of glass hitting my face. I was wedged in the back seat of my Honda CR-V, wrestling a screaming six-month-old out of a Michelin-man snowsuit while the heater blew pathetic...

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Confused dad trying to soothe a grumpy grinch baby wearing an organic cotton bodysuit

Troubleshooting Your Grinch Baby When Holiday Chaos Hits

I'm currently sweating through my favorite flannel shirt while attempting to stuff my eleven-month-old son into a synthetic, neon-green elf costume that has actual jingle bells aggressively sewn onto the collar. He is thrashing around like a fish on a...

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Exhausted mother holding a crying baby in a dimly lit nursery

Surviving the Hell Baby Phase When You Are Running on Empty

The microwave clock says three in the morning, the only light in your kitchen is the green digital glow, and you're bouncing on a yoga ball so hard your knees ache while holding a rigid infant who sounds like a...

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Two tiny baby guinness shots sitting on a kitchen counter next to a baby monitor

The Honest Parent Guide to the Baby Guinness Shot

It was nine at night on a Tuesday and my toddler was treating our living room like a hostile takeover. Rohan had three molars breaking through his gums simultaneously and I was doing the classic parent sway in the kitchen,...

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Sarah's kitchen counter covered in orange sweet potato splatters and a spoon.

The Great Sweet Potato Incident: A Very Messy Guide to First Foods

It was a Tuesday at exactly 2:14 PM, and I was wearing my husband Dave's gray college t-shirt that had a mysterious, crusty stain on the left shoulder. I was sitting at our kitchen island, staring blankly at the wall,...

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Tired dad typing on laptop while baby sleeps next to organic play gym

The Megan Walerius Baby Drama and What I Wish I Knew Months Ago

Hey man. You’re currently sitting on the bathroom tiles at 3:14 AM, scrolling Twitter while the shower steam theoretically clears up your five-month-old's congestion. I know this because I'm you, six months in the future. The kid is eleven months...

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Pile of folded newborn baby clothes on a rustic wooden nursery dresser

Surviving the Laundry: A Real Guide to Newborn Baby Clothes

I'm currently staring at a laundry basket overflowing with tiny, mustard-yellow stained garments, drinking a cup of coffee that went cold somewhere around eight this morning. Between packing up orders for my Etsy shop and keeping my toddler from feeding...

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Mother pushing stroller over bumpy Chicago sidewalk

The truth about rubber baby buggy bumpers and modern stroller safety

We were somewhere on Fullerton Avenue when the sidewalk just ended. It didn't taper off or gracefully transition into a crosswalk. It just turned into a crater of jagged concrete and exposed rebar, a true Chicago masterpiece. My toddler was...

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