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Vetting Caregiver Platforms & Stopping the Sugar Baby Madness

It was exactly 10:14 PM on a Tuesday, which is already a deeply offensive time for me to be awake, let alone wearing hard pants. My husband Mark and I had just gotten back from our first actual "date night"...

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When Can Babies Eat Solid Food Without Ruining My Life

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting in the dark nursery wearing a nursing tank that smelled strongly of sour milk and desperation. Leo, my oldest, was four months old and currently latched onto me like...

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How We Survived Slow Cooker Pork Ribs Without A Trip To The ER

The apartment smelled like brown sugar and smoked wood. It was a freezing November Sunday in Chicago, and I had the slow cooker going on low since six in the morning. Rohan was eight months old, sitting in his high...

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Decoding Baby Lasagna: How to Feed Your Infant Without a System Crash

My mom called me on a Tuesday to say she fed me Stouffer’s frozen meat lasagna when I was six months old and I turned out completely fine, which is debatable considering my current anxiety levels. Ten minutes later, my...

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Why a baby harp seal cured my ridiculous mom guilt

The rhythmic, mechanical wheezing of my breast pump at 3:17 AM is the soundtrack to my biggest parenting epiphanies. There I was with my oldest kid, Liam, about four years ago. I was exhausted, leaking milk onto a pile of...

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The Truth About Baby Gravy: Why Sunday Roasts Need a Rewrite

It's 2019. Sunday roast at my mother-in-law's house. Maya is eight months old and currently mashing a piece of dry chicken into her highchair tray with the kind of intense focus usually reserved for defusing bombs. My mother-in-law, bless her,...

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Is the $25 Baby Chair Ikea Sells Actually Safe for Weaning?

It was 98 degrees in late July, the Texas humidity was thick enough to chew, and I was standing in my front yard in flip-flops blasting a white plastic bucket seat with the jet setting on my garden hose. Neon...

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The Ikea Baby Chair Truth: Posture, Choking & Cleaning

My mother-in-law wanted me to register for a leather-bound high chair that cost more than my first car. My occupational therapist friend cornered me at a brunch to explain that any baby chair without a perfectly adjustable, solid oak footplate...

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When do babies stop drinking formula: my messy transition

I was standing over my kitchen sink at 11:45 PM, aggressively scrubbing the tiny, useless plastic vents of a baby bottle for what felt like the millionth time. Chicago winters already destroy your skin, but adding hot water and dish...

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