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A toddler with a front tooth gap wearing organic clothes while holding a silicone teether.

My Guide to Every Type of Gap Baby You Will Actually Encounter

I was sitting on the sticky linoleum floor of the Woodfield Mall family restroom when the reality of my life choices hit me. My toddler was screaming at a decibel level that usually triggers a code blue on a pediatric...

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Surviving the Modern Baby Shower: Themes, Rules, and Absurdities

My mother-in-law insisted we needed a hired tea service with crustless cucumber sandwiches, my mate Paul told me to just book the back room at The Crown and put some crisps in a bowl, and an American lifestyle blog I...

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The Chaotic Truth About Finding Brilliant Baby Shower Dresses

Dear Tom of six months prior to the twins' arrival. You're currently standing outside the changing rooms at a high-street maternity shop, holding a lukewarm flat white, waiting for Sarah to emerge. You've been here for forty-five minutes. You think...

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Neutral wooden baby shower decorations and a realistic balloon setup on a living room table.

The Truth About Baby Shower Decorations (And That Balloon Arch)

I was thirty-two weeks pregnant with my oldest, sitting flat on my kitchen floor, and ugly-crying into a pile of deflated sage green balloons. My husband had just walked in from work, taken one look at me holding a dual-action...

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Two toddlers destroying a living room while holiday music plays in the background.

Let's discuss the absolute madness of those santa baby lyrics

It was 4:13 PM on a Tuesday in mid-December. The sky over London had been a bruised, miserable purple since lunchtime, and inside the flat, the twins were orchestrating what I can only describe as a coordinated assault on our...

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Spearmint for Babies: A Dad's Guide to Minty Leaves and Tiny Clothes

I'm currently standing in my kitchen holding a bundle of wet green leaves in one hand and my phone in the other, feeling completely paralyzed by data overload. My mother-in-law texted me yesterday saying I should rub spearmint oil directly...

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A VTech baby monitor screen showing a sleeping baby in a dark room.

The Great VTech Baby Monitor Experiment (A Dad's Honest Take)

I spent the first three months of my twin daughters’ lives doing exactly what you shouldn’t do: I bought a terrifyingly cheap, unbranded camera off the internet that broadcasted grainy, unencrypted footage of my children directly to, presumably, a server...

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Tired mom holding a newborn baby in a dark nursery illuminated by a soft red nightlight.

What Baby Justin Bieber Taught Me About 3 AM Survival

It was 3:17 AM, and I was wearing my husband Dave’s oversized college hoodie that smelled faintly of sour milk and complete desperation. Leo, who was exactly four weeks and two days old at the time, was doing that arching-back,...

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A toddler in an organic cotton bodysuit looking at a baby chick in a plastic brooder tub.

Surviving Backyard Baby Chicks When You Already Have A Toddler

We were standing in the middle of a farm supply store somewhere in the Illinois suburbs when my husband decided we needed to teach our two-year-old about food sustainability. He was holding a cardboard box that vibrated with high-pitched chirps,...

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