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When Do Babies Teeth? An Honest Timeline For Exhausted Parents

I was standing in the checkout line at Trader Joe's in 2019, balancing a frozen pizza on my hip because I didn't grab a cart, when the contradictory advice started. Maya was about five months old, wearing a mustard yellow...

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The Messy Truth About When Your Baby Finally Learns to Sit Up

I was sitting on the cold linoleum floor of a slightly damp church basement wearing yoga pants that hadn’t seen a yoga studio since Obama was in office, staring at a six-month-old named... Brayden? Jayden? Let's go with Jayden. Jayden...

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What An Overdue Celebrity Baby Taught My Debugging Brain

The time was 3:14 AM, and the only sound in our Portland apartment was the rhythmic, aggressive squeak of a purple yoga ball against the hardwood floor. My wife was violently bouncing on it, trying to physically dislodge our stubbornly...

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Why Searching I Love You Baby Lyrics Is My 3 AM Survival Hack

I was standing over my oldest son's crib at 3:14 AM wearing a stained t-shirt, swaying like a seasick sailor, and desperately trying to remember the words to literally any song on the planet. My brain was absolute mush. I...

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How to Reduce Fever in Baby Naturally Without Losing Your Mind

It was exactly 2:14 AM when my middle child, Carter, rolled over into my arm and felt like a literal baked potato fresh out of the oven. I'm talking radiating heat. I sat up in the dark, frantically feeling his...

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The Messy Truth About Baby Yogurt: What I Wish I Knew Back Then

I'm currently staring at a crusty, suspicious white stain on my kitchen ceiling and I've absolutely no idea how it got there. Wait, no, yes I do. It's whole milk Greek yogurt, flung with the precision of an Olympic shot...

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Dear Past Me: Please Stop Stressing Over the Baby Weight Chart

I was cleaning out my messy Google Drive about 6 months agoβ€”looking for a recipe I never ended up makingβ€”and I found a draft of a letter I had started writing to my past self. I was looking at old...

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Dear Past Priya: Finding the Best Baby Swing for Your Sanity

Dear Past Priya, It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in late November. You have dried spit-up on the left shoulder of your nursing tank. You're standing in the dark living room holding a screaming potato who refuses to close his...

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Exhausted mom holding a screaming infant in a dark nursery at 3 AM

Why Your Baby Won't Stop Crying (And Why It’s Not Your Fault)

It was 4:13 AM on a Tuesday. I know this because my phone was illuminated on the kitchen counter, showing a weird crying baby gif my husband Dave had just texted me from the next room in a sleep-deprived delirium....

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