When Can Babies Start Drinking Water: A Nurse's Honest Guide
July in Chicago is an absolute swamp. The humidity hits four hundred percent, the air feels like soup, and everyone loses their minds. When my daughter was two months old, we had a family barbecue during one of these heat...
When Can a Baby Sleep With a Blanket? (The Honest Truth)
It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in late November. I was standing in my hallway in a pair of stained fleece sweatpants, clutching a breathtaking, hand-knit merino wool heirloom blanket to my chest like a shield, staring at the...
Finding Good Baby Care Near Me: A Mom's Honest Survival Guide
I was sitting in the driver's seat of our 2014 Honda CRVβwhich my husband affectionately calls the baby car because it smells permanently of sour milk and crushed Cheeriosβcrying into my steering wheel. My oldest was exactly three weeks old,...
The Truth About Baby Doge Coin & Real Pet Safety With Infants
The glare from my phone screen was absolutely blinding at 2:13 in the morning while I was trapped under thirty-two pounds of sleeping toddler and nursing my newest arrival in our creaky nursery glider. I was just trying to do...
The Emmanuel Haro Case: Facing The Real Threat To Our Babies
I was sitting on my living room floor knee-deep in a pile of shipping mailers for my Etsy shop, trying to desperately fold laundry with my other hand while the baby was miraculously asleep for five consecutive minutes, when the...
Finding a baby bat in your house and other midnight terrors
My mate Dave from the pub told me the best way to handle the situation was with a pint glass and a beer mat, as if I were dealing with a slightly aggressive bluebottle in a beer garden. My mother-in-law,...
The atom bomb baby panic and why you need to log off right now
It's two in the morning and the blue light from the television is flickering down the hallway of my Chicago apartment. My husband is awake, playing that massive post-apocalyptic video game again. The volume is turned down to a mere...
Why Your Innocent TV Search Could Show Your Toddler an R-Rated Movie
It was 3:17 AM on a Tuesday, and I was quite literally running on a half-eaten sleeve of stale saltines and the sheer desperate hope that my eight-month-old would just close her eyes. She had been screaming since midnight, teething...
Dear Past Jess: What I Wish I Knew Before Buying a Baby Pool Float
Dear Jess from last May, I know you're currently hyperventilating beside the inflatable kiddie pool, tasting cheap PVC plastic because you lost the air pump again, while Jacksonβour lovely, feral four-year-oldβis threatening to launch himself off the patio furniture into...