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A tired British dad looking deeply concerned while his baby cheerfully chews on a silicone toy

Why That Horrifying Teeth Grinding Sound Your Baby Makes Is Fine

It was exactly 2:14 in the morning when I first heard it. A rhythmic, grating sound cutting through the otherwise silent nursery, like someone slowly crushing chalk with a mortar and pestle, or perhaps a tiny, furious geologist trying to...

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A tired parent holding a chilled silicone panda teether while a baby violently drools in the background.

Surviving the 3AM Drool Fest: The Quest for a Safe Cold Teether

The blue light of the freezer illuminated my despair at precisely 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. Behind me, from the nursery, emanated a twin-stereo wailing that sounded less like human infants and more like a flock of seagulls fighting over...

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A baby holding a wooden bunny teething ring on a nursery rug

The Great Teething Toy Mix-Up: Babies, Bunnies, and Panic

It was 11:14 AM on a Tuesday in 2018, and I was wearing a pair of maternity leggings I legally should have burned three months prior. Maya was nine months old, screaming the kind of high-pitched, gum-throbbing scream that makes...

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Mother wearing a chunky silicone teething necklace while holding a baby

Why I Finally Swapped My Gold Chain for a Mother Teething Necklace

We were at a coffee shop in Wicker Park last Tuesday when I saw it. A perfectly nice woman at the next table wrestled a string of Baltic amber beads around her six-month-old's chubby neck. I took a slow sip...

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11-month-old baby chewing on the collar of a navy blue baby tee while holding a wooden teether

My kid's favorite chew toy is a blue baby tee (a survival guide)

Tuesday, 2:14 PM. It's aggressively raining in Portland, which is our baseline, but what isn't standard is the sheer volume of fluid currently exiting my 11-month-old's mouth. I'm sitting on the living room rug, watching him systematically destroy a perfectly...

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A tired parent washing a silicone baby teether at the kitchen sink

Why the Haakaa style silicone teether finally ended my 3am nightmare

I'm standing at the kitchen sink at 3:14 in the morning, wearing a dressing gown that smells faintly of sour milk and despair, aggressively attacking a tiny nylon mesh bag with an old toothbrush. In the background, Maya is wailing...

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Baby wearing a silicone teething mitt while sitting on a playmat

The Truth About Why I Finally Caved and Bought a Mitt Teether

It was three in the morning, the floorboards in our old Texas farmhouse were freezing, and I had just stepped directly onto a plastic giraffe that was completely slick with baby spit. My oldest son, Carter, was four months old...

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Jess holding a silicone baby teether and looking exhausted in a messy living room

Dear Past Me: The Truth About Globuli Zahnen Baby Nightmares

Dear Jess of last November. You're currently sitting on the cold linoleum of the downstairs bathroom at 3:14 AM. You have a twenty-pound toddler balanced on your left hip, who's screaming hot fire directly into your collarbone, and in your...

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Zwillingspapa untersucht mit einer Taschenlampe das geschwollene Zahnfleisch seines zahnenden Babys

Zahnfleisch beim Zahnen: Wie sieht es wirklich im Babymund aus?

Lieber Tom von vor sechs Monaten, Es ist 3:14 Uhr morgens und du sitzt gerade im Halbdunkel unseres Wohnzimmers in Hackney, wÀhrend der Londoner Regen gegen das Fenster peitscht. Auf deinem Schoß windet sich Matilda, eine deiner zweijÀhrigen Zwillingstâchter, und...

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