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My Beanie Baby Website Search: A Dad's Guide to Winter Hats & Toys

I'm sitting in the artificial blue glow of my MacBook at 3:14 AM, desperately clicking through a retro-looking beanie baby website that looks like it hasn't seen a CSS update since Netscape Navigator was a thing. My 11-month-old son is...

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The Great Midnight Laundry Crash: Blankets and Baby Thermodynamics

I'm standing in our dimly lit basement laundry room at 2:14 AM, holding what used to be a piece of luxury textile, and it currently looks like a severely depressed, matted muppet. My wife is standing in the doorway, her...

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Surviving 29 Weeks: From Butternut Squashes to Tiny Terrorists

I'm currently watching a piece of steamed sweet potato make its third, highly ambitious trajectory across my kitchen, propelled by the shockingly strong left arm of a child who, until very recently, was basically a sentient bag of flour. If...

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The Completely Unfiltered Guide to Buying Baby's Room Furniture

When I was pregnant with my first, my mother-in-law showed up at my house hauling an antique, drop-side wooden cradle that had been sitting in a humid East Texas attic since 1984. It smelled like mothballs and questionable structural integrity....

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When that angry red nappy rash is actually a fungal invasion

I was standing over the changing mat at three in the morning with Twin A, heavily sleep-deprived and holding a spatula covered in Sudocrem, when I realised the biggest lie in modern parenting is that every red bottom just needs...

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The $1200 Stroller Lie and What You Actually Need

I was standing in a high-end Dallas baby boutique, six months pregnant with my first, staring at a $1,400 stroller that looked like a sleek European spaceship while my husband nervously checked our checking account balance on his phone. The...

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Why Every Baby to Kid Meme Feels Like a Literal Personal Attack

I was sitting on the edge of the bathtub at 11:14 PM last night, staring blankly at the bathroom tiles while my three-year-old staged a sit-in protest on the bath mat because the water I used to wash his hair...

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The Honest Truth About Baby Tees and Sensitive Skin

My mom told me to put three layers and a fleece snowsuit on my oldest when we left the hospital in mid-April because she swore "a chill will get him" the second we stepped outside. My younger sister, who doesn't...

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Why Homemade Baby Suji Saved My Grocery Budget and My Sanity

"Just give him rice cereal in a bottle," my grandma told me over the phone while I was actively scraping a dried crust of mashed banana off my kitchen cabinets. "No, skip grains entirely, meat only," a girl in my...

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