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The Brutally Honest Truth About the Orbit Baby Stroller System

It was raining, obviously. I was standing in the parking lot of the Trader Joe’s on 4th Street, wearing yoga pants that hadn’t actually seen a yoga mat since sometime in 2017. Maya was strapped into her car seat screaming...

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Max Verstappen Baby Quotes and the Packaged Chicken Problem

My mother-in-law told me I had to hold the baby firmly against my left pectoral so she could sync to my heartbeat like a Bluetooth device. My senior developer Slack-messaged me to keep the baby elevated at exactly a 45-degree...

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Exhausted dad in a dark room holding an infant while looking at a smartphone

Troubleshooting the 3 AM Baby Glitch and Other Night Terrors

My thumb was hovering over the backspace key at 3:14 AM, the harsh blue light of my phone screen illuminating the spit-up crusted on my shoulder. I had managed to type exactly six letters into the search bar with my...

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Dear Exhausted Mom: The Massive Lie About Sleeping Like a Baby

Dear Jess from six months ago, You’re currently sitting cross-legged on the linoleum floor of the laundry room at 3:14 AM, trying to fold a mountain of onesies with one hand while desperately swaying a screaming newborn in your other...

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Priya's baby sleeping in a wooden cradle beside a window in Chicago.

The Truth About Cradles and That Scalp Crust Nobody Mentions

The smell of lemon wood polish hit me the second I walked into our Chicago apartment with a three-day-old infant in my arms. Sitting right in the middle of our cramped living room was a massive, dark wood antique baby...

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Exhausted dad buried under multiple blankets looking for the best cooling blanket option.

The Search for the Best Cooling Blanket When Nobody Actually Sleeps

I asked three different people what to do about the fact that my wife and I were waking up at 3 am glued to our mattress like damp Post-it notes. My mum suggested leaving a window open, which in November...

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Do Babies Cry In The Womb? What Those Ultrasound Scans Really Mean

When my wife was twenty weeks pregnant with our twin girls, we received exactly three pieces of deeply conflicting, entirely unsolicited advice within a forty-eight-hour window. My mother-in-law insisted we needed to play Mozart pressed directly against the bump to...

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Why The Ronettes’ 1963 Hit Is My Ultimate Parenting Hack

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in November, and Maya was screaming with the kind of primal, glass-shattering intensity that makes your own teeth physically hurt. I was wearing a gray fleece robe that smelled vaguely of sour milk...

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The midnight triage of baby sleep and staying remotely sane

Listen. It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in February, and the wind was howling off Lake Michigan loudly enough to rattle the bedroom windows. I was standing in the dark, holding a screaming four-month-old at arm's length because a...

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