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Exhausted mom drinking coffee while holding a sleeping baby in the nursery.

The Messy, Exhausting Truth About Getting Your Baby to Sleep

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting frozen on the floor of the nursery, holding my breath because my knee had just popped. I knew if my oldest son, Leo, heard that tiny joint crack and...

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Dear Anxious Me: The Absolute Truth About Buying A Crib Mattress

Dear Sarah from six months ago. You're currently sitting cross-legged on the floor of your sister's guest room, which she just painted a highly questionable shade of mustard yellow. You have half a cold, oat milk latte balanced precariously on...

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Exhausted mom holding a crying newborn baby in a swaddle while standing in a messy living room

The Happiest Baby Guide for Exhausted, Sleep-Deprived Parents

It was 3:17 AM in the dead of a humid Texas summer, and I was standing in my living room wearing a nursing tank that smelled strongly of sour milk, doing frantic deep knee bends while aggressively hissing into my...

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Two tiny baby guinness shots sitting on a kitchen counter next to a baby monitor

The Honest Parent Guide to the Baby Guinness Shot

It was nine at night on a Tuesday and my toddler was treating our living room like a hostile takeover. Rohan had three molars breaking through his gums simultaneously and I was doing the classic parent sway in the kitchen,...

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Tired dad typing on laptop while baby sleeps next to organic play gym

The Megan Walerius Baby Drama and What I Wish I Knew Months Ago

Hey man. You’re currently sitting on the bathroom tiles at 3:14 AM, scrolling Twitter while the shower steam theoretically clears up your five-month-old's congestion. I know this because I'm you, six months in the future. The kid is eleven months...

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A tired mother sitting on bathroom floor organizing infant skincare products

Mustela Baby Skincare: A Letter To My Exhausted Past Self

You're sitting on the cold hexagon tiles of our Chicago bathroom right now. It's three in the morning. The baby is screaming in the tub. His skin looks like an angry, red topographic map of the Rockies, and you're staring...

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A small infant sleeping safely on a firm flat mattress without blankets

The reality of bringing your preemie baby home from the NICU

The hospital sliding doors open and the winter wind hits your face. You're holding a plastic bucket seat containing a human the size of a standard bag of flour. They told you the discharge paperwork was clear and you could...

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Exhausted mother holding an arching infant upright over her shoulder in a dark nursery

The Midnight Terror of Silent Reflux (And How We Survived It)

"It's the fenugreek in your dal," my mother-in-law announced via a grainy WhatsApp video call. "Prop his crib mattress on two thick telephone books," a random mother in my neighborhood Facebook group swore. "He just needs to latch longer to...

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Sleep deprived dad practicing tying the solly baby wrap in the living room

My 3 AM Battle with the Solly Baby: 15 Feet of Fabric vs Dad

Before my son arrived, everyone had a totally conflicting theory about how I was supposed to carry him around. My sister-in-law told me to just buy a canvas backpack thing with heavy plastic buckles and strap him to my chest...

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