Exactly When Can Babies Eat Food According To A Tired ER Nurse
My mother-in-law was standing in my Chicago kitchen holding a cardboard box of rice cereal like it was some sort of ancient religious artifact. She kept telling me my four-month-old needed a heavy scoop of it mixed into his nighttime...
When Can Babies Eat Solid Food Without Ruining My Life
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting in the dark nursery wearing a nursing tank that smelled strongly of sour milk and desperation. Leo, my oldest, was four months old and currently latched onto me like...
How We Survived Slow Cooker Pork Ribs Without A Trip To The ER
The apartment smelled like brown sugar and smoked wood. It was a freezing November Sunday in Chicago, and I had the slow cooker going on low since six in the morning. Rohan was eight months old, sitting in his high...
Decoding Baby Lasagna: How to Feed Your Infant Without a System Crash
My mom called me on a Tuesday to say she fed me Stoufferβs frozen meat lasagna when I was six months old and I turned out completely fine, which is debatable considering my current anxiety levels. Ten minutes later, my...
The Truth About Baby Gravy: Why Sunday Roasts Need a Rewrite
It's 2019. Sunday roast at my mother-in-law's house. Maya is eight months old and currently mashing a piece of dry chicken into her highchair tray with the kind of intense focus usually reserved for defusing bombs. My mother-in-law, bless her,...
Surviving the Absolute Chaos of Your Baby First Food Milestone
There's a very specific sound that pureed sweet potato makes when it hits a freshly painted Victorian ceiling, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that it resembles a wet golf ball striking mud. I was standing in our...
The Baby Corn Cat Panic: A Letter to Myself on BLW & Felines
Dear Sarah from six months ago, You're currently sitting on the cold kitchen tiles at 7:14 AM wearing Mike's ratty Villanova hoodieβthe one with the suspicious, crusty stain on the left sleeve that might be yogurt but is probably something...
Is the $25 Baby Chair Ikea Sells Actually Safe for Weaning?
It was 98 degrees in late July, the Texas humidity was thick enough to chew, and I was standing in my front yard in flip-flops blasting a white plastic bucket seat with the jet setting on my garden hose. Neon...
How We Survived Baby Blues Luncheonette With An 11-Month-Old
We're standing on an uneven patch of Brooklyn concrete at 10:34 AM, and I'm sweating through my flannel shirt while trying to pretend I belong here. Inside the massive glass window, a guy in a vintage beanie is slowly, methodically...