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Finding the Best Baby Bouncer When You Just Need a Damn Shower

It was a Tuesday in November, raining sideways, and I was wearing a nursing bra that smelled intensely of sour milk and desperation. Maya was maybe eight weeks old. Leo was three and currently trying to feed the dog dry...

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A tired dad in a Portland coffee shop reading a stack of colorful baby books next to a sleeping infant.

My Search for the Best Baby Books (A Warning to Past Marcus)

Dear Marcus from exactly 182 days ago: I'm looking directly at the memory of you slicing open an Amazon box on the kitchen island at 2:14 AM. It contains six different hardcovers claiming to hold the ultimate algorithm for newborn...

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Exhausted dad holding a wearable breast pump while looking at a newborn baby photographer in a hospital room

When Pumping Hardware And Hospital Photoshoots Suddenly Collide

The machine strapped to my wife’s chest sounded exactly like a PlayStation 4 struggling to render a massive game file. It was a rhythmic, mechanical grinding noise that echoed off the sterile walls of our postpartum recovery room. We were...

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The Truth About Beechnut Baby Food When You Have Twin Girls

It was 11:43 PM on a Tuesday. The NutriBullet was emitting a high-pitched scream usually reserved for dying spacecraft, and I was standing in my kitchen in nothing but my boxer shorts, covered in a fine, sticky mist of pureed...

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Tired dad looking at two toddlers chewing on wooden toys in a living room

Why My Teething Twins Turned Into Beavers (And What I Learned)

The sound woke me at 3:14 AM. It wasn’t a cry, or a whimper, or even that wet, raspy cough that instantly deducts forty quid from your bank account because you panic-buy every brand of vapor rub at the all-night...

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The Beanie Baby Ty Debate: Why My 90s Toys Stay In The Attic

I was sitting cross-legged on the splintery plywood of my mom's Texas attic, sweat pooling at the base of my neck while I tried to organize boxes of my old high school junk. My mom, who firmly believes every piece...

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Debugging The 90s Plush Stash: The Great Beanie Baby Tag Dilemma

I was sitting cross-legged on the nursery floor at 10 AM on a Saturday, entirely surrounded by a 30-gallon plastic storage bin of my childhood. My mom had just dropped off the "archives," grinning like she had just unburdened herself...

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Why Skipper Babysitters Inc Dolls Terrify Me As A Parent

I'm currently on my hands and knees in our London flat, using a high-powered camping headlamp to scan the living room rug for a piece of pink plastic no larger than a grain of rice. The grand parenting lie is...

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Banana pancakes for baby: Why my first twin batch was a disaster

The smoke alarm in our London flat has a very specific, piercing shriek that usually only makes an appearance when I attempt to be culinary before 7 am. Tuesday morning was no exception. I was standing in the kitchen, squinting...

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