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The Baby Steps Metacritic: Stop Treating Walking Like A Game

I was sitting on a damp park bench in Wicker Park last Tuesday, nursing a lukewarm coffee, when a mother I barely know ambushed me. She had that specific, tense energy of a woman who'd just read four different parenting...

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What I Wish I Knew About Oatmeal Baths Before Destroying Our Tub

Dear Jess of six months ago: you're currently standing over the hall bathroom tub with a metal kitchen strainer, crying while trying to fish soggy, bloated breakfast oats out of the drain before your husband realizes you've destroyed the plumbing...

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Co-Parenting Chaos & What I Learned From Pop Culture

Dear Sarah from six months ago, You're currently sitting in the driver’s seat of the Honda Odyssey in the Target parking lot. It’s 9:15 AM on a Tuesday. You're wearing those black lululemon leggings that have a crusty, chalky smear...

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Why outfitting a newborn baby boy feels like a hostage negotiation

It was day four. I was sleep-deprived to the point of mild hallucinations, standing over the changing pad in the dark. I unzipped his fleece sleeper, and a perfect arc of warm urine hit me directly in the collarbone. That...

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Dear Me: Surviving The Naked Baby Girl Phase With Twins

Dear Tom of exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting on the sofa, smugly drinking a tepid cup of tea while Evie and Isla sit peacefully on the rug, fully clothed in matching corduroy dungarees. You think you've this twin...

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Commuter Train Chaos With An Infant And Other Truths

I'm standing on the train platform at 8:12 AM on a Tuesday, wearing a trench coat that has a crusty streak of spit-up on the left lapel, and I'm clutching a lukewarm coffee like it's a flotation device in open...

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What To Know Before Buying The Expensive Mori Baby Sleepwear

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I had my phone flashlight clamped between my teeth like a miner digging for coal. My oldest son, Beau, was four weeks old and screaming with the kind of lung capacity that...

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The Truth About Raising Mega Babies When Standard Gear Fails You

I was standing in the fluorescent-lit hospital room, still completely numb from the waist down, watching my husband try to wrestle our firstborn into a "newborn" sized coming-home outfit that we had paid entirely too much for on Etsy. My...

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Note to Self: Surviving the Man Baby & What to Dress Them In

Dear Sarah from six months ago, It’s 3:14 AM. You're currently sitting cross-legged on the floor of your sister’s guest room wearing a pair of Dave’s old sweatpants with a questionable bleach stain on the knee and a nursing tank...

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