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A tired mom holding a baby with a silicone pacifier

Can Your Baby Safely Sleep With a Pacifier? Let's Talk About It

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was staring at the grainy green screen of my video monitor like I was watching a bomb about to detonate. My oldest son, Wyatt, was three weeks old. He was fast...

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Sleeping infant with a silicone pacifier falling out of their mouth

The Honest Truth About Letting Your Baby Sleep With a Pacifier

It's three in the morning and I'm staring at the grainy green glow of the baby monitor. The pacifier is currently dangling from my son's bottom lip by a fraction of a millimeter. I hold my breath. It drops. It...

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A tired British dad attempting to swaddle screaming twin girls at 3am using an organic cotton blanket.

The Drowsy But Awake Deception and Other Newborn Survival Lies

I was halfway through singing a deeply out-of-tune rendition of 'Wonderwall' to a tiny human who was aggressively trying to headbutt my collarbone when I realised the greatest lie ever sold to modern parents. It was 3:17 am, Twin A...

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A tired dad holding an acoustic guitar and a baby wrapped in a purple deer organic cotton blanket

How learning the dont worry baby chords fixed our sleep bugs

At 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, I was standing in the middle of our Portland nursery holding an iPad running a professional-grade decibel meter app in my left hand while frantically toggling between twelve different "womb environment" Spotify tracks with...

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A mother holding her newborn baby securely in an ergonomic carrier

The truth about that Jenna baby nude photo uproar

My mother-in-law swore my baby needed three layers of wool at all times or he would catch a draft and perish instantly. A lactation consultant in a fluorescent hospital basement told me skin-to-skin meant I shouldn't wear a top for...

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Exhausted mom in a messy bedroom staring at a baby waking up in a small bedside bassinet.

How Long Can A Baby Sleep In A Bassinet Before You Lose It

Dear Sarah from exactly four years and six months ago, It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. You're wearing Dave’s stained college lacrosse t-shirt, the one with the hole near the left armpit, and you've literally been staring at Leo for...

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A dad looking confused while holding an Allen wrench next to a half-assembled wooden crib.

Why I Went Down a Late-Night Rabbit Hole About Crib Scandals

I was holding a 20-volt DeWalt impact driver in one hand and a piece of splintered, ostensibly non-toxic mahogany in the other when my wife gently suggested from the doorway that I was "doing it wrong." It was a Tuesday...

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Messy baby crib with a single safe sleep sack instead of loose blankets

When Is It Safe to Give Your Baby a Blanket?

I was exactly three weeks into this whole motherhood gig when I almost gave myself a heart attack. My oldest son, Carterβ€”who exists mostly now as a walking cautionary tale for everything I did wrong as a first-time momβ€”was born...

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A baby laying on a playmat reaching for their bare toes

When Do Babies Discover Their Feet: A Letter to My Anxious Self

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're sitting on the nursery rug at 3 AM. The glow of the humidifier is casting weird shadows on the wall, and your kid is lying flat on his back, staring at the ceiling...

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