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Baby lying on a play mat with a wooden baby gym overhead

The accidental gymnast and the gravity problem with your two-month-old

We need to talk about the biggest lie circulating in your local mom group. You know the one. You're sitting on someone's beige rug, sipping lukewarm coffee, and another mother casually drops that her eight-week-old is already rolling over. She...

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Troubleshooting Baby Quilts: Safety, Sleep, and Free Patterns

Three days after we brought our son home from the hospital, my wife’s great-aunt mailed us a massive, handmade patchwork blanket that weighed roughly the same as a cinderblock, accompanied by a card instructing us to "wrap him up tight...

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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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The Vintage Buggie Beanie Baby Safety Problem No One Mentions

My mother-in-law dropped a pristine, tag-protected nineties plush insect on my kitchen counter and told me it was an heirloom that would soothe the baby's colic. My best friend texted me that giving a vintage buggie beanie baby to a...

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A tired dad trying to wrangle twin babies during a very messy nappy change on a vegan leather mat.

The absolute truth about a black baby changing diaper routine

It's 3:17 a.m. and I'm staring down twin number one (or possibly twin number two, the darkness and sleep deprivation blur them into one collective entity of demands) while the distinct, unmistakable aroma of impending doom wafts from her cot....

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Exhausted mom looking at a tiny baby bottle next to her sleeping newborn.

The panic over your baby's stomach size (and why I lost my mind)

I was standing barefoot on the freezing kitchen tile at three in the morning, wearing these horrific mesh hospital underwear and a nursing bra that smelled entirely like sour milk and sheer desperation. It was November, so the house was...

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What I Got Completely Wrong About Building My First Baby's Layette

I was standing in the middle of our driveway in a pair of Dave's gym shorts that I'd aggressively rolled down underneath my 38-week pregnant belly, holding a tiny, stiff denim jacket with functional metal buttons, and I was just...

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Priya holding a stiff plastic baby onesie while looking highly skeptical at the camera

Why My Toxic Relationship With Funny Baby Onesies Finally Ended

Kamini auntie handed me a gift bag that smelled vaguely of mothballs and aggressively cheap vinyl. We were at my baby shower, sitting in a circle of fifty women drinking chai, and I was performing the delicate art of opening...

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Jess folding a mountain of essential baby and toddler equipment lumolog style in her Texas living room

My Essential Baby and Toddler Equipment Lumolog Guide

I was exactly eight months pregnant with my oldest, sitting on the floor of what used to be my craft room, sobbing into a plastic wipe warmer. My husband had just spent three hours trying to assemble a baby swing...

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