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Troubleshooting the Sudden Red Bumps on Your Baby's Face

I was shining my iPhone flashlight at my son’s left cheek at 2:14 AM when my wife gently, but firmly, confiscated my phone. I had been hovering over his crib like a forensic investigator for ten minutes, trying to determine...

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NICU Wardrobe Hacks: Dressing Your Preemie Without Breaking Things

I was standing next to an isolette that cost more than my first car, holding a microscopic, bright red fleece snowsuit my aunt had mailed us. The incubator was humming. The Philips monitors were doing that rhythmic, low-stakes beeping that...

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The Accidental Chaos of Searching for Joker Baby Stuff

At 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, I tried to optimize our Halloween strategy by typing a highly unspecific query into my phone with my left thumb, while my right arm acted as a human structural support for an 11-month-old who...

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The absolute disaster of putting your infant in a fancy baby dress

We're at my sister-in-law's house in Naperville for a holiday party. My daughter is four months old and I've wrestled her into a heavily embroidered, synthetic silk baby dress that cost more than my first stethoscope. She looks like a...

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The Absolute Chaos of Trying to Make My Kid Wear Baby Perfume

It’s 2:14 PM on a Tuesday in 2017, and I'm standing over my bathroom sink in maternity leggings that haven’t been washed in—actually, I really don't want to know how many days—frantically scrubbing a tiny, furious newborn with a wet...

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Baby By Justin Bieber: From Pop Song To Real Parenting

It was 3 AM, the house was entirely silent except for the hum of our busted AC unit, and I was desperately trying not to drop my firstborn child. Hunter was screaming like I had personally offended him by offering...

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The Baby Buddha Breast Pump: A Dad’s Guide to Troubleshooting

It was 3 AM, and I was holding a pair of digital calipers, trying to measure my wife's nipples to the exact millimeter while she glared at me from the edge of the bed. This isn't exactly how I pictured...

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The Babies R Us Registry Panic: A Letter to My Anxious Past Self

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting in the driver’s seat of your Subaru in the parking lot of a Kohl’s, wearing those black leggings that have the weird hole near the knee, and you're literally vibrating...

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The Midnight Panic Search for Chest Rubs When Your Baby is Sick

There I was at two in the morning, holding a six-month-old who sounded like a broken coffee percolator, aggressively jabbing at my phone screen with one free thumb because the toddler had just sneezed directly into the baby's open mouth...

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