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A tired mother holding a baby wrapped in a ring sling carrier

Why most baby rings belong in the trash and the gear you actually need

I was scrolling social media at two in the morning while nursing a furious six-month-old when I saw it. A literal infant floating in a bathtub with an inflatable plastic inner tube strapped around his neck. The caption said something...

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Messy baby eating puree from a reusable silicone food container in a car seat

The Great Puree Glitch: Debugging Dinnertime

The ceiling of my Subaru Crosstrek currently has a modern art installation made entirely of organic sweet potato and turkey puree. I was driving down Interstate 84. My 11-month-old son, Leo, was screaming in the back seat. The temperature was...

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The Truth About That Cute Baby Milo Keychain (And My Mom Guilt)

It was a random Tuesday in October, like, 2018 maybe? Maya was about seven months old, and we were sitting outside this aggressively hip coffee shop in Brooklynβ€”the kind where a basic iced oat milk latte costs seven dollars and...

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Sarah looking exhausted while reading the back of an infant powder can in her messy kitchen while holding a coffee mug

Why finding baby formula without seed oils is driving me crazy

I was sitting on my kitchen floor at 3 AM wearing my husband's college sweatpants that have a literal hole in the crotch, aggressively Googling fat blends while Maya screamed from her bassinet in the other room. I had a...

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Tired dad looking at a smartphone screen showing a digital baby dragon game

Finding The Best Baby Dragon Decks Without Losing Your Sanity

I'm staring at a Β£14.99 charge on my Monzo app while Molly, the slightly more destructive of my two-year-old twins, attempts to post a half-eaten rice cake into the PlayStation disc drive. The bank charge simply says "Supercell," which sounds...

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Tired dad looking confused at a bouquet of baby's breath flowers

Decoding the Baby's Breath Flower Meaning (And Why I Panicked)

I was standing in our kitchen at 3:14 AM, wearing sweatpants that hadn't been washed since Tuesday, staring at a massive glass vase on our island. We had just brought Maya home from the hospital three days prior. The vase...

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Frustrated mom looking at different gallons of water in the grocery store aisle

The Real Truth About Distilled and Purified Water for Baby Formula

It was 3:17 AM, and I was standing in my kitchen in nothing but an oversized t-shirt and postpartum mesh underwear, staring dead-eyed at a pot of boiling tap water. My oldestβ€”who's now five and serves almost entirely as a...

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A realcare infant simulator lying next to a soft bamboo baby blanket

RealCare Baby Simulators: The Brutal Truth About How They Work

I found it wedged between a moldy juice box and a soccer cleat in the back of my sister's Honda Odyssey. A stiff, heavy, unblinking plastic infant. My sixteen-year-old niece was slouched in the passenger seat, staring at it with...

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Mom sitting on a nursery floor playing pretty little baby chords while baby watches

Why Learning Pretty Little Baby Chords Beats Playing Mozart

Three years ago, I was sitting on my cheap living room rug, sweating through my nursing tank top, frantically trying to sync a Bluetooth speaker to a twelve-hour Spotify playlist called "Mozart For Genius Brain Development." My oldest son, the...

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