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Newton baby bedside sleeper setup next to an unmade master bed

The Messy Truth About That Washable Newton Baby Bassinet

My mom sat on the edge of my couch, sipping iced tea, and told me to just put the baby in a plastic laundry basket lined with a thick quilt, because bless her heart, that’s exactly what she did with...

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A tired mom holding a crying baby in a dimly lit nursery at 3 AM.

What Happens When You Look Up Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby Lyrics

It was 3:17 AM on a Tuesday, and I was wearing my husband Dave's oversized grey college hoodie that smelled faintly of old garlic and desperation. Leo, who was about six months old at the time, was screaming with the...

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Rural fire station wall featuring a secure safe haven baby box for emergency infant surrenders

What You Actually Need to Know About the Safe Haven Baby Box

I was knee-deep in folding tiny, mismatched socks yesterday when my phone buzzed with a notification from our local county Facebook moms group that immediately spiked my blood pressure. Y'all, it was an absolute mess. Somebody had posted a news...

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Exhausted mom looking at her phone in the dark while holding a baby

Why googling "Luna baby" at 3 AM is actually a terrible idea

I'm sitting on the cold, hexagonal tile of my master bathroom floor, and it's exactly 3:14 AM. I know it's 3:14 AM because the glowing red numbers on the digital clock Dave insisted we put in there are glaring at...

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A tired mother sitting on the bathroom floor next to an empty baby bathtub

Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater: Note to Past Priya

It's three in the morning on a Tuesday. You're currently standing over the kitchen garbage can, holding a sleep sack covered in what we clinically refer to as a code brown. You're debating whether to just burn the garment, the...

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A VAVA baby monitor camera mounted on a nursery wall next to a crib

What I Wish I Knew About the VAVA Baby Monitor

Listen. I know you're sitting on the edge of the glider right now, staring at a frozen smartphone app while your six-month-old cries in the other room. It's 3 AM in Chicago. The radiator is hissing. Your Wi-Fi router just...

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A dad looking confused holding a personalized baby swaddle in a nursery

The Real Reason Babies Never Actually Sleep With Custom Blankets

There's a massive disconnect between the baby gear you think you need before the kid arrives and the reality of keeping a tiny human alive. Before our son Leo was born, my mental image of fatherhood involved a lot of...

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Pregnant woman sitting in the dark looking at her phone screen.

My 3 AM breakdown over a 700-year-old pregnancy prediction chart

Listen, the bathroom tiles were freezing against my bare legs, and my phone screen was turned down to that barely-visible dim setting so I wouldn't wake my husband. I was exactly seven weeks pregnant. I felt like I had swallowed...

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Messy living room with a baby swing chair and a half-empty coffee mug

Why That Baby Swing Is A Lifesaver (And A Total Anxiety Trap)

It was a Tuesday in November, right around 3 PM, and I was wearing a pair of maternity leggings that smelled vaguely of old spit-up and desperation. Maya was maybe two months old. She had been screaming for what felt...

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