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The Truth About Finding A Lone Baby Seal On A Rock At The Beach

Dear Jess from six months ago, who's currently standing on a freezing, aggressively windy Northern California beach holding a half-eaten bag of goldfish crackers while your three kids melt down in stereo. Put the cracker bag down, take a deep...

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Raising the 'Baby Rich' Without Making Them Insufferable

I was staring at a three-thousand-dollar acrylic crib on my phone at 4 a.m. while covered in sour milk, waiting for my maternity leave pay to clear. That was the exact moment I realized my entire concept of being baby...

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Baby Reindeer Reviews: The Netflix Show That Shocked My House

I was knee-deep in a laundry basket full of tiny socks that somehow all turn into singles in the dryer, when my oldestβ€”the one who tests every single gray hair on my head dailyβ€”yelled from the living room that he...

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Why Searching For Baby Reindeer Episodes Nearly Broke My Brain

I had my arms elbow-deep in a basket of spit-up stained laundry, trying desperately to find the matching half of a tiny sock, when my four-year-old started screaming at the Roku remote. I was half-listening, calculating how many Etsy shop...

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That cute baby raindeer show is actually a parental nightmare

I was standing by the kitchen island at 6:45 AM on a Tuesday, wearing gray sweatpants that honestly probably smelled like stale yogurt, scraping hardened oatmeal off a plastic bowl with my thumbnail, when Leo casually walked in holding his...

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Why Every Mom is Obsessed With the Baby Pygmy Hippo

I was sitting on my living room floor at 2:14 AM last Tuesday, surrounded by half-folded shipping boxes for my Etsy shop, nursing my youngest, and watching a video of a baby pygmy hippo aggressively gumming a zookeeper's knee. And...

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The Terrifying Truth About Innocent Kids' Searches

I was sitting on the floor of my laundry room yesterday, using a baby wipe to scrape dried oatmeal off my five-year-old’s hand-me-down tablet. I turned it on just to check the battery, swiped over to the browser he uses...

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Decoding The Baby Poop Chart By Age (Without Losing Your Mind)

I'm standing in the nursery, holding my phone flashlight in my mouth, wearing a nursing tank that smells violently like sour milk and desperation, staring into the dark, terrifying depths of my newborn daughter Maya’s diaper. It's 3:14 AM. The...

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Dear Past Me: What I Wish I Knew About Buying a Baby Piano

Dear Jess from six months ago, I know exactly where you're right now. You're hiding in the walk-in pantry, sitting on a sack of jasmine rice, pretending to look for the good coffee while actually just trying to escape the...

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