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A baby chewing on a silicone teether while sitting on a living room rug.

Why I Stopped Freezing My Chengbao Baby Silicone Ball Teether

The rain was hitting the windows of our Portland duplex at 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I found myself standing in the kitchen illuminated only by the blue digital glow of the refrigerator panel. In my left hand, I...

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Spotting Cerebral Palsy in Babies: A Twin Dad’s Messy Story

It was a bleak Tuesday in November, raining with that specific London spitefulness, and I was lying on the living room rug surrounded by the debris of early parenthood. At six months old, my twin girls were engaged in entirely...

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Baby chewing on a safe silicone baby toon spoon while sitting on a play mat.

Note to past Priya: The truth about the baby toon and choking

Dear Priya from last November. You're currently staring at a bowl of mashed sweet potato and sweating through your scrubs. Your hands are shaking because ten minutes ago he choked. Or you thought he choked. He went red, his eyes...

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Wooden infant piano sitting on a living room rug surrounded by toys

Dear Past Me: What I Wish I Knew About Buying a Baby Piano

Dear Jess from six months ago, I know exactly where you're right now. You're hiding in the walk-in pantry, sitting on a sack of jasmine rice, pretending to look for the good coffee while actually just trying to escape the...

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A tired dad staring at colorful plastic building blocks scattered across a rug

A Warning To Past Me About Surviving The Plastic Brick Phase

Dear Tom of six months ago. You're currently standing in the doorway of the nursery, holding a lukewarm cup of tea, looking affectionately at a beautifully curated shelf. You think you've absolutely nailed this parenting thing, don't you? You haven't....

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Toddler's messy crayon sketch of a newborn on a wooden table

The messy truth about putting a newborn on paper without going crazy

It's raining sideways in Chicago. The kind of rain that makes you reconsider ever leaving your house again. We're trapped in the living room, and the walls are closing in. Rohan has a fistful of crushed crayons and is demanding...

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A frustrated dad trying to pull a tiny green sweater over a plastic baby doll's rigid arm while his toddler watches.

The 3 AM Nightmare of Putting Baby Doll Clothes on Tiny Plastic Arms

At 4:17 AM on a Tuesday, the ambient temperature in our living room was exactly 68.4 degrees. I know this because I was staring at the thermostat while sitting on the rug with a headlamp on, trying to thread a...

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A frustrated baby covered in sweet potato puree holding a silicone spoon

The Messy, Sweet Potato-Covered Truth About Using Baby Spoons

It was 2019, and there was pureed sweet potato on my living room ceiling fan. Not a light splatter, y'all. A heavy, gravity-defying clump. My oldest son, bless his heart, had just karate-chopped the hard plastic baby spoon I was...

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