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Is It Floppy Baby Syndrome? Why Your Infant Feels Like A Ragdoll

My smartwatch buzzed with an abnormal heart rate alert right as my son's shoulders completely collapsed through my hands. It was week fourteen, roughly 2:15 AM, and I was just trying to execute a standard crib transfer. I had him...

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Do Babies Cry In The Womb? What Those Ultrasound Scans Really Mean

When my wife was twenty weeks pregnant with our twin girls, we received exactly three pieces of deeply conflicting, entirely unsolicited advice within a forty-eight-hour window. My mother-in-law insisted we needed to play Mozart pressed directly against the bump to...

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That Time My Winter Layering Mistake Caused a Heat Rash on Baby

It was 3 AM in mid-January, pitch black outside, and the wind was howling against our drafty Texas farmhouse windows. I unzipped my youngest son’s fleece footie pajamasβ€”the absurdly thick ones shaped like a brown bear with little ears on...

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The Messy Truth About HiPP And Why I Smuggled European Milk

When Leo was about four months old, it was 3:14 AM and I was standing in my kitchen wearing a college t-shirt that smelled aggressively like sour milk and maternal desperation. My husband Greg was making his third pour-over coffee...

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Exactly How Long Does RSV Last in Babies? A Dad's Viral Data Log

My mother-in-law texted me at 6 AM asking, "how is the babi doing?" because she stubbornly refuses to use autocorrect on her iPad. Two hours later, the barista at my local coffee shop confidently informed me that respiratory viruses are...

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How Tall Is Lil Baby: Growth Charts And Late Night Googling

It's 3 AM in Chicago. The radiator in my pre-war apartment is clanking like a percussion section, the snow is piling up against the window, and my kid has been cluster feeding for what feels like three consecutive lunar cycles....

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How to Help Baby Poop When They're Grunting and You're Stressed

It was two in the morning, the house was dead quiet, and I was sitting on the edge of my bed holding my oldest, Leo, while he turned the exact color of a homegrown Texas tomato. His little knees were...

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Why the Sweet Stuff Is Off the Menu: A Guide to Honey for Infants

Tuesday, 3:18 AM. Twin A (the one with the lungs) has developed a cough that sounds vaguely like a sea lion demanding fish. My phone vibrates on the nightstand. It's my mother, who possesses a bizarre sixth sense for when...

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The Jason Kelce Baby Playbook: What Fainting Dads And Feral Toddler...

Before my daughter was born, my mother-in-law told me to keep her head covered indoors so the wind wouldn't enter her ears. The lactation consultant at the hospital told me skin-to-skin contact would solve my latch issues, my sleep deprivation,...

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