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Surviving the great baby pancake experiment of our weaning era

I'm currently scraping a piece of fossilised banana oat batter off the kitchen ceiling with a plastic spatula. It's 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, and the great weaning experiment has officially breached containment. Maya is covered in a sticky paste...

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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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Dear Past Me: The Real Truth About Finding A Local Baby Cafe

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. You're sitting in the passenger seat of your sister's 2018 Subaru Outback, wearing those black leggings with the tiny hole in the left knee, balancing a sweating, lukewarm half-caff iced Americano between your...

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Surviving the Baby Bull Phase: Blenders, Bulldogs, and Purees

I was standing in my kitchen wearing yesterday's yoga pants, staring at a splatter of neon orange sweet potato on my ceiling while our rescue pit mix tried to lick the matching orange stain off my six-month-old's foot. The myth...

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Why searching blue baby isaac at 2am will terrify you

It was 3 a.m. in our Chicago townhouse, the exact hour when every shadow in the nursery looks like a critical medical emergency. I was standing over the crib, staring at my four-month-old son's mouth, convinced his upper lip looked...

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My Unhinged, Exhausting Search For The Best Glass Baby Bottles

I was standing in my kitchen at 3:14 AM wearing my husband Dan’s college sweatpants that had a questionable mustard stain on the knee, holding a supposedly pristine, top-of-the-line glass bottle while Maya screamed in the other room. I was...

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Why I Threw Out My Popular Baby Seat (And Got The Upseat)

It was 10:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was staring at my five-month-old son, Leo, who looked exactly like a tiny, extremely drunk man slumped at a bar at last call. He was sittingβ€”or rather, sinkingβ€”into one of those...

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Exactly When Can Babies Eat Food According To A Tired ER Nurse

My mother-in-law was standing in my Chicago kitchen holding a cardboard box of rice cereal like it was some sort of ancient religious artifact. She kept telling me my four-month-old needed a heavy scoop of it mixed into his nighttime...

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When Do Babies Finally Learn To Hold Their Own Bottle?

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was wearing a stained College of Charleston t-shirt that smelled heavily of sour milk and sheer exhaustion. Leo, who was about five months old at the time, was doing this infuriating...

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