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Why Machine Gun Kelly's Co-Parenting Setup Is Oddly Inspiring

It was 3:14 in the morning, the Texas humidity was already sticking to the windowpanes like a wet blanket, and my middle child—let's just call her Baby M for the sake of keeping some things private—was doing that terrifying back-arching...

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The Co-Parenting Chaos Nobody Warns You About

I'm sitting in my minivan outside a Starbucks in River North watching my friend do a custody handoff that looks exactly like a Code Blue in the ER. Just pure, uncoordinated panic. She's shoving a heavy diaper bag at her...

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What The Lil Durk Baby Mama Drama Taught Me About Co-Parenting

My mom sat me down at the kitchen table over a plate of lukewarm eggs and told me to just smile and wave politely at my husband's ex during drop-offs, like I was the grand marshal of a small-town parade....

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How Many Baby Mommas Does Elon Musk Have: A 3AM Parenting Spiral

What you absolutely shouldn't do when your 11-month-old is actively trying to chew through your MacBook power cord at three in the morning is fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about billionaire reproduction. But there I was, sitting on the...

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Notes to myself six months ago on surviving the baby M phase

It's 3:14 in the morning and you're staring at the glow of the humidifier like it holds the answers to the universe. Outside, the Chicago wind is rattling the bedroom window, but inside, all you can hear is the frantic,...

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Tina Fey Lied to Me: Why Hollywood Baby Tropes Belong in the Bin

It's 3:14 AM. I'm wedged into the corner of our IKEA sofa in an unnatural, spine-twisting posture because moving even a fraction of an inch will wake Twin A, who's currently drooling a warm puddle onto my collarbone. On my...

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When A Therapy App And A Literal Baby Manatee Saved My Sanity

It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in my kitchen wearing my husband's ancient Boston College hoodie. The one that has a crusty, mysterious stain on the left cuff that could be hummus, could be dried...

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My Kid is Obsessed with Chiquita Baby Monster and I Am Tired

It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, which in my house is basically the witching hour but with more aggressive demands for waffles. I was standing in the kitchen wearing a robe that distinctly smelled like old milk and failure,...

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Jimmy Butler Baby Mama Drama: The Real Parenting Lessons

The biggest myth about rich people having kids is that their problems are completely foreign to us regular, exhausted moms wiping sweet potato off the ceiling. I totally bought into that fake reality until my group chat blew up about...

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