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Tired dad looking at a smartphone screen showing a digital baby dragon game

Finding The Best Baby Dragon Decks Without Losing Your Sanity

I'm staring at a Β£14.99 charge on my Monzo app while Molly, the slightly more destructive of my two-year-old twins, attempts to post a half-eaten rice cake into the PlayStation disc drive. The bank charge simply says "Supercell," which sounds...

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The Truth On Easy Crochet Baby Blanket Patterns Free

I'm sitting cross-legged on the living room rug at twenty past midnight, entirely bound in a web of aggressively yellow yarn, trying to pause a YouTube video with my nose because both my hands are currently serving as a makeshift...

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Mom wearing a sage green linen dress holding her baby son in a complementary organic cotton romper.

The reality of matching mom and son baby clothes without the cringe

Before my son arrived, three different women cornered me with wardrobe advice. My mother-in-law insisted I needed tiny, rigid denim trousers for him, as if a newborn has business meetings to attend. A senior nurse on my floor told me...

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A tired mother sitting alone in a dimly lit nursery holding her baby.

The american baby austin film fest buzz and maternal isolation

Room four was always the coldest in pediatric triage. I used to pull my fleece jacket tight while taking vitals, but the teenage girl sitting on the exam table didn't seem to notice the chill. She was nineteen, thirty-six weeks...

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A wooden baby play gym set up in a living room next to organic clothing.

What a Screaming Backyard Wild Bird Taught Me About Motherhood

It was 102 degrees in the shade, the kind of Texas summer afternoon where the air feels like hot soup and you sweat just blinking, and I was up to my elbows in diaper cream when the back screen door...

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Baby girl wearing a soft organic cotton flutter sleeve bodysuit for Easter

The Complete Dad Guide to Surviving Baby Girl Easter Outfits

The great tulle disaster of last month taught me a very hard lesson about infant formalwear. My wife was out with friends, and I decided to run a beta test on a highly structured, aggressively ruffled dress my mother-in-law sent...

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A crumpled organic cotton baby blanket resting on a nursery chair next to a half-empty coffee mug.

The Absolute Truth About That Gorgeous Personalized Baby Blanket

I'm standing in the dark at exactly 2:14 AM wearing sweatpants that haven't been washed since Tuesday, staring into my firstborn's bassinet like it's a ticking bomb. My husband is snoring in the other room, completely oblivious to the crisis,...

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Two vintage nineties plush toys sitting safely on a high wooden nursery shelf out of reach.

The October 10th Retro Plushie Incident (And Other Dad Fails)

The postie arrived at exactly 10:14 am on a grim Tuesday morning, thrusting a slightly damp cardboard box into my hands with the weary expression of a man who knows my house receives entirely too many parcels. It was the...

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Dad holding twins while playing the dijon baby vinyl record next to a PVC-free organic cotton playmat.

Why Dijon’s Baby Album Saved My Sanity (And Vinyl Almost Didn't)

It was 3:14 am on a Tuesday, and it was raining that very specific, miserable type of London rain that seems to fall horizontally. Twin A was screaming because her socks were on, and Twin B was screaming because Twin...

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