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Why I Stopped Tracking Baby Development by Week With My Third

It was 3:17 AM, and the harsh blue light from my phone screen was probably blinding my firstborn as I frantically refreshed a developmental tracker app while nursing in our rocking chair. The app was practically screaming at me that...

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The Uncanny Valley of the CGI Baby in Squid Game

There's a massive misconception floating around the parenting subreddits right now. People seem to think the horrifyingly fake infant in that Korean dystopian show was just a product of lazy budgeting. They assume some producer looked at an Excel sheet,...

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Spotting Cerebral Palsy in Babies: A Twin Dad’s Messy Story

It was a bleak Tuesday in November, raining with that specific London spitefulness, and I was lying on the living room rug surrounded by the debris of early parenthood. At six months old, my twin girls were engaged in entirely...

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A dad's perspective on managing baby eczema and dry skin

A Letter to Past Me About Baby Skincare and Greasing Up Twins

Dear Tom from November, You're probably standing in the downstairs loo right now, aren't you? You're holding a writhing Florence under one arm like a poorly packed rugby ball, staring at her left calf and wondering if babies can get...

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Can Babies Get High From Breastfeeding? The Brutally Honest Truth

It was 3:14 AM. I was sitting in our creaky nursery glider wearing a pair of my husband Dave's gym shorts that smelled faintly of old protein powder, nursing a four-month-old Leo who was aggressively pinching my left boob. My...

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Dear past Priya: The brutal reality of the circus baby phase

Listen. It's Tuesday night, you're sitting in the dark of our cramped Chicago living room, and the baby finally went down after forty-five minutes of heavy rocking. You're holding a lukewarm mug of chai, staring at the harsh glow of...

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My honest take on the bizarre collagen baby threads internet rumor

My phone vibrated against the kitchen counter at six in the morning while I was trying to scrape dried oatmeal off a silicone mat. It was a text from my cousin in San Jose, asking if I knew anything about...

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The reality of bringing home a collodion baby

The page came through right at 3 AM during a brutal winter shift at Northwestern Memorial. The attending OB's voice on the phone was just a fraction tighter than usual, which in hospital triage terms means you grab the crash...

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Dear Past Tom: A Warning About The Dijon Mustard Situation

Dear Past Tom, You're probably reading this while standing in the maternity ward bathroom, staring at a tiny, screaming human you met roughly four hours ago. You're holding a nappy under the harsh fluorescent light, and you're sweating. You've just...

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