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Why The Crack Baby Mitski Search Term Ruined My Tuesday Night

I was sitting cross-legged on the floor at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday, elbow-deep in a basket of sour-smelling toddler pajamas, when I saw it. The family iPad, which is supposed to be locked down tighter than Fort Knox, was...

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The Truth About Postpartum Anxiety and the bhad babie cancer News

My phone buzzed so hard it nearly vibrated right off the kitchen counter into a pile of smashed bananas. I was up to my elbows in dish soap, aggressively trying to scrape yesterday's dried oatmeal off the highchair tray, when...

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Dear Past Sarah: Devil Man Cry Baby Is Definitely Not For Kids

Dear Sarah from last October. You're currently sitting on the floor of the downstairs bathroom because it’s the only room with a lock that the kids haven't figured out how to pick with a paperclip yet. You have a lukewarm...

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What the rainbow baby definition actually means in real life

It was a Tuesday in late October, raining that gross sideways rain we get in Seattle, and I was sitting in the driver's seat of my Honda CR-V in the Walgreens parking lot. I was wearing these awful maternity leggings...

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The punching babies in public prank is ruining my algorithm

The time was exactly 2:14 AM, the nursery thermostat was reading a stable 69.4 degrees, and I was making the biggest digital mistake of my life. My 11-month-old, Maya, was currently undergoing some sort of developmental firmware update where she...

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Is the Nanit Pro Smart Baby Monitor Actually Worth the Price?

People love to tell you that dropping four hundred dollars on a high-tech camera is going to instantly cure your postpartum anxiety, but they're lying to your face. I bought into that myth completely with my oldest. Bless his heart,...

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Lil Baby All On Me: Surviving The Intense Velcro Infant Phase

I tried the heating pad trick first. You know the oneβ€”you warm up the crib mattress so when you lower the sleeping infant onto the sheets, they don't detect a temperature drop and sound the alarm. I even wore the...

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The kriss_baby monitor panic and why your nursery needs a digital d...

The green light on the nursery camera was blinking out of sync with the router. It's a tiny detail, but when you spend your days working pediatric triage, you get highly attuned to the rhythm of blinking lights. In the...

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Processing the Tragic University of Kentucky Cheerleader Baby News

It was 5:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on the sticky linoleum of my kitchen floor in sweatpants that smelled faintly of string cheese, trying to drink coffee that had been microwaved three times already. I was...

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