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Tired mother looking at her phone in a dark nursery while a baby sleeps

Proud Curvy Girl Seeks Lost Baby Daddy: 3 AM Doomscroll Notes

Dear Priya from last November. You're currently sitting on the closed lid of the downstairs toilet. The bathmat is damp under your bare feet because your husband took a shower three hours ago and didn't turn on the exhaust fan....

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The Bizarre Lies She Told My Baby About My Pre-Parenting Life

I watched in absolute horror as my old university friend Fiona, wearing a leather jacket that smelled faintly of stale vape smoke and regret, leaned directly into the pram and started rewriting my twenties. We were in a Costa Coffee...

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Co-Parenting Chaos & What I Learned From Pop Culture

Dear Sarah from six months ago, You're currently sitting in the driver’s seat of the Honda Odyssey in the Target parking lot. It’s 9:15 AM on a Tuesday. You're wearing those black lululemon leggings that have a crusty, chalky smear...

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My Gangster Baby Daddy Pampers Me To Paradise: Real Dad Take

"Just let her sleep when the baby sleeps," my mom told me over FaceTime, which is mathematically impossible unless I also figure out how to sleep when the baby sleeps, and then who exactly is watching the dog or paying...

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My Baby Daddy Is A Bed Bug: A Custody Exchange Survival Guide

Dear Priya from last October. You're currently staring at a navy blue canvas duffel bag in the entryway of your Chicago apartment, wondering if you can legally set it on fire. Your baby daddy just pulled away in his Honda....

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Why Machine Gun Kelly's Co-Parenting Setup Is Oddly Inspiring

It was 3:14 in the morning, the Texas humidity was already sticking to the windowpanes like a wet blanket, and my middle childβ€”let's just call her Baby M for the sake of keeping some things privateβ€”was doing that terrifying back-arching...

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The Co-Parenting Chaos Nobody Warns You About

I'm sitting in my minivan outside a Starbucks in River North watching my friend do a custody handoff that looks exactly like a Code Blue in the ER. Just pure, uncoordinated panic. She's shoving a heavy diaper bag at her...

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Stressed mom packing a sustainable diaper bag for a weekend baby handoff

What The Lil Durk Baby Mama Drama Taught Me About Co-Parenting

My mom sat me down at the kitchen table over a plate of lukewarm eggs and told me to just smile and wave politely at my husband's ex during drop-offs, like I was the grand marshal of a small-town parade....

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London dad holding two toddlers while looking exhausted but vaguely hopeful.

The Kylie Jenner Baby Daddy Setup: A 3 AM Letter To Myself

You’re currently hiding in the downstairs loo, aren't you? It’s 3:14 AM, the bathroom tiles are freezing through your socks, and you’ve locked the door because the twins are finally asleep after a three-hour screaming match about who gets to...

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