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My Beanie Baby Website Search: A Dad's Guide to Winter Hats & Toys

I'm sitting in the artificial blue glow of my MacBook at 3:14 AM, desperately clicking through a retro-looking beanie baby website that looks like it hasn't seen a CSS update since Netscape Navigator was a thing. My 11-month-old son is...

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Baby's On Fire By Die Antwoord: A Minivan Parenting Disaster

There I was, merging onto Highway 290 with a trunk full of melting H-E-B groceries and a two-year-old who had finally surrendered to sleep in his car seat, when the Bluetooth decided to get cute. I was listening to my...

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Dear Past Tom: Surviving When Your Baby's Coming Back Up

Dear Past Tom of six months ago, You're currently sitting in The Crown on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, enjoying a rare hour of unsupervised freedom while your mother-in-law watches the twins. You have consumed exactly one and a half pints...

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When that angry red nappy rash is actually a fungal invasion

I was standing over the changing mat at three in the morning with Twin A, heavily sleep-deprived and holding a spatula covered in Sudocrem, when I realised the biggest lie in modern parenting is that every red bottom just needs...

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What I wish I knew about raising our baby with Down syndrome

Hey man. It’s Marcus. Or rather, it’s you, exactly six months in the future. I know exactly what you’re doing right now. You’re sitting in the blue glow of the humidifier at 3:17 AM, holding your phone six inches from...

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Dear Past Me: Everything I Wish I Knew About Cleaning A Tiny Tongue

Dear Past Sarah, It's 2 AM on a Tuesday. You're sitting on the living room rug, wearing that ancient Nirvana baby t-shirt from high schoolβ€”yes, the one with the bleach hole near the hemβ€”and you're frantically shining your iPhone flashlight...

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When You Realize That Milk on Your Baby's Tongue is Actually Thrush

It was 3:14 AM. I know the exact time because I had been staring at the glowing green numbers on our digital alarm clock while my oldest, Leoβ€”who was roughly six weeks old at the timeβ€”screamed into my collarbone. I...

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Why OPI's "Baby Take a Vow" Polish Caused a Panic in Our House

The smell hit me before I saw the damage. It was that sharp, chemical scent of a beauty salon, floating down the hallway and completely overpowering the faint aroma of stale oat milk and damp wool that usually defines our...

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Why Homemade Baby Suji Saved My Grocery Budget and My Sanity

"Just give him rice cereal in a bottle," my grandma told me over the phone while I was actively scraping a dried crust of mashed banana off my kitchen cabinets. "No, skip grains entirely, meat only," a girl in my...

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