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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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Figuring out exactly how old is lil baby and surviving year one

It's 3:17 AM in Chicago. The radiator is hissing. I'm sitting in a glider that smells faintly of sour milk, staring at my phone. I'm so violently sleep-deprived that I've somehow fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole trying to figure...

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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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Pile of folded newborn baby clothes on a rustic wooden nursery dresser

Surviving the Laundry: A Real Guide to Newborn Baby Clothes

I'm currently staring at a laundry basket overflowing with tiny, mustard-yellow stained garments, drinking a cup of coffee that went cold somewhere around eight this morning. Between packing up orders for my Etsy shop and keeping my toddler from feeding...

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Exhausted mom holding a tiny premature infant with medical tape on their face in a hospital room.

The Conflicting Advice About Having A NICU Baby That Broke Me

I was standing by the ridiculously deep metal scrub sink at 3:14 AM when I realized I was completely, utterly paralyzed by other people's opinions. My mother-in-law had just texted me: Let her rest, touch overstimulates them right now. The...

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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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Exhausted mom holding coffee and staring at baby gear.

Why "The Babys" Sleep Rules Broke Me (And What Really Worked)

I was standing in the kitchen at 3:17 AM wearing a gray maternity bra that smelled aggressively like sour milk and desperation. My husband, Dave, was asleepβ€”or pretending to be asleep, the bastardβ€”while I was furiously typing misspelled medical queries...

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An exhausted British dad holding two newborn babies wearing organic cotton rompers.

There Goes My Baby: Surviving the Absurdity of the Newborn Phase

I'm standing in our freezing London kitchen at 4:12 in the morning, holding what appears to be a very angry, red-faced sweet potato wrapped in a slightly damp muslin cloth, when my phone, completely unprompted, shuffles to an R&B playlist...

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A dad adjusting the harness of a rear-facing infant car seat in a car.

Troubleshooting the hardware of your very first infant car seat

My wife's contractions were six minutes apart upstairs in room 412 of Legacy Emanuel, and I was down in the subterranean hospital parking garage violently wrestling a molded plastic base into the backseat of my Subaru. The Portland rain was...

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