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Finding the Calm in the Chaos with a Sweet Baby James Lullaby

I was standing in my oldest son's nursery at 3:14 in the morning, wearing a nursing tank top that smelled strongly of sour milk and desperation, violently swaying back and forth. Three weeks prior, at my beautifully curated baby shower,...

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Dear Past Me: Finding Sanity With the Baby Buddha Breast Pump

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the cold bathroom tiles at 3 AM. The heavy white plastic box of your standard issue insurance pump is plugged into the wall, trapping you within a three-foot radius of...

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Why The Ella Mai Baby Secret Made Me Rethink Everything

Right now, there's a half-chewed oat biscuit adhered to my left kneecap with what I can only assume is industrial-strength toddler saliva, and I'm staring at my phone screen in absolute awe. I'm looking at photos of Grammy-winning R&B singer...

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Late Night Googling: Cheer Up Baby Full Movie and Other Tactics

The glow of my phone screen was the only light in the living room, and it was aggressively illuminating the spit-up crusted on my left shoulder. It was 2:14 AM. My husband was snoring in the bedroom—a sound that made...

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Why that cheer up baby dailymotion search won't fix the crying

The glow of a smartphone screen at three in the morning is uniquely depressing. My son was doing that arched-back, red-faced screaming thing. I had a bottle in one hand, a pacifier clamped in my teeth, and I was frantically...

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My Brutally Honest Guide To Surviving The Baby Shower Cake Drama

I was thirty-three weeks pregnant with Maya, wearing a navy blue floral maternity wrap dress from Target that was actively cutting off the circulation to my ribs. It was 2:15 PM on a sweltering Sunday in July, I was sweating...

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The reality of toxic co-parenting and what it does to a baby

Hey Priya of six months ago. You're currently sitting on the cold hexagonal tiles of the guest bathroom floor. The Chicago wind is rattling the frosted glass window, the baby is finally asleep after an hour of fighting a brutal...

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What the Megan Fox baby tells us about surviving your late thirties

When my wife fell pregnant with our twins, her aunt cornered me at a family dinner to insist we buy a wipe-warmer because cold wet wipes supposedly cause long-term emotional damage. The very next day, my mate Ian—who has three...

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Why the Pretty Baby Movie Documentary Broke My Dad Brain

It was 3:14 AM, the Portland rain was actively trying to dissolve our roof, and my 11-month-old daughter was using my sternum as a memory foam mattress. I had my phone brightness dialed down to absolute zero, squinting through the...

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