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What I Learned Googling the Rosemary's Baby Cast Late at Night

It was 2:14 AM, the exact ambient temperature of our Portland living room was 64.2 degrees according to my heavily customized smart home dashboard, and my 11-month-old was finally asleep on my chest after what felt like a critical firmware...

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The Great Arch Support Myth and Stride Rite Baby Shoes

The lady in the shoe shop was looking at me with a mixture of pity and mild alarm. I was kneeling on the carpet, wrestling with Twin A's left foot, trying to compress what looked like a perfectly round, dimpled...

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The Viral Nursery Search Trap Every Tired Parent Needs To Avoid

My mother told me to simply keep the tablet in a locked drawer until my daughter is in middle school. My tech-bro cousin from San Jose insisted I need a multi-layer home VPN with military-grade packet sniffing to protect our...

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The absolute brutal reality of choosing unique baby boy names

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, charting vitals in the pediatric wing, when a mother proudly told me she named her newborn son Khaos. Spelled with a K. I smiled professionally, noted it in the chart, and walked out of the...

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What Will My Baby Look Like (And Other Late Night Mysteries)

I was thirty-four weeks pregnant, sitting in the dark at two in the morning, paying a sketchy app five dollars to merge my face with my husband's. The result loaded on my phone screen and I just stared at it....

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The Midnight Panic: When Your Kid Finally Starts Kicking In There

It was exactly 2:14 AM. I know this because I was staring obsessively at the red digital clock on our microwave while sitting cross-legged on the kitchen floor. I was wearing my husband’s oversized, threadbare college t-shirt, crying softly into...

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The Absolute Chaos of Raising Twins and a Baby German Shepherd

I'm currently watching a forty-pound creature with ears the size of satellite dishes attempt to herd my two-year-old daughters into the downstairs loo. The creature, a dog who seems entirely unaware that he's not currently employed on a farm in...

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Dear Past Tom: The chaotic truth about cooking meals for babies

Dear Tom from six months ago, You're currently standing in the kitchen at two in the afternoon, wearing a jumper that smells faintly of sour milk, staring at a blender full of steamed sweet potato. You have a very specific,...

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The Great Baby Carrot Freakout And How We Actually Survived It

I was standing in my kitchen at exactly 2:14 PM on a Tuesday. I know the exact time because that's the precise moment my soul usually leaves my body every afternoon. I was wearing my husband Dave's gray college sweatpants...

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