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Wait, How Old Is Too Old To Have A Baby? The Messy, Honest Truth

I was sitting on our bathroom floor in my lucky, aggressively holey gray sweatpants, staring at a positive pregnancy test and doing frantic mental math. Maya was three, I was thirty-seven, and my husband Dave was downstairs making his incredibly...

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How Many Baby Mommas Does Elon Musk Have: A 3AM Parenting Spiral

What you absolutely shouldn't do when your 11-month-old is actively trying to chew through your MacBook power cord at three in the morning is fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about billionaire reproduction. But there I was, sitting on the...

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The Midnight Mouse Panic and Why Crumb Control is Everything

It was 7:14 PM on a Tuesday, and I was exactly where I always am at that time: on my hands and knees under the high chair, scraping a fossilized piece of sweet potato off the baseboard with a wet...

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What to Do When You Feel Less Fetal Movement in the Third Trimester

My mother-in-law told me babies just get lazy at the end. The girl in my prenatal yoga class said her doula claims fetuses enter a deep meditative state to prepare for birth. A random mom on the internet said to...

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When Does the Newborn Phase Actually End? A Dad's Late-Night Dive

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was holding a grunting, scrunching potato in the glow of my smartphone while the Portland rain hammered against the nursery window. We were exactly 32 days into this whole parenthood experiment....

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How Long Does Baby Acne Last? (And Why You Shouldn't Panic)

I was standing in line at my local coffee shop, wearing these black maternity leggings that I had fully sworn to myself I'd burn the second I gave birth, but here we were, three weeks postpartum, and they were the...

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How Does Preeclampsia Affect the Baby? My NICU Story

It's 2:14 PM on a Tuesday and I'm wearing these absolutely hideous mustard-colored maternity leggings that I bought on clearance at Target, sweating through my third cup of lukewarm decaf. I'm sitting on that terrible crinkly paper of the exam...

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Let's Talk About How Do Babies Get Thrush (And How To Fix It)

My mother-in-law told me on the phone that it was because my breast pump parts were dirty. My lactation consultant heavily implied it was because I ate a brownie the day beforeβ€”sugar feeds yeast, apparently, which is just incredibly unfair....

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The completely unvarnished truth about making homemade baby food

My mother-in-law cornered me in the kitchen and said I had to boil dal water for three straight hours or my son's intestines would simply shut down. My coworker from the pediatric ward texted me to skip purees entirely, advising...

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