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Why I Threw Out My Popular Baby Seat (And Got The Upseat)

It was 10:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was staring at my five-month-old son, Leo, who looked exactly like a tiny, extremely drunk man slumped at a bar at last call. He was sitting—or rather, sinking—into one of those...

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Exactly When Can Babies Eat Food According To A Tired ER Nurse

My mother-in-law was standing in my Chicago kitchen holding a cardboard box of rice cereal like it was some sort of ancient religious artifact. She kept telling me my four-month-old needed a heavy scoop of it mixed into his nighttime...

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Tired mom drinking coffee while watching her baby try to hold a milk bottle on a playmat.

When Do Babies Finally Learn To Hold Their Own Bottle?

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was wearing a stained College of Charleston t-shirt that smelled heavily of sour milk and sheer exhaustion. Leo, who was about five months old at the time, was doing this infuriating...

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Tired dad researching infant sleep and feeding hacks on a smartphone in a dark nursery.

Baby Mel Queries: Decoding Late-Night Infant Sleep Searches

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and the nursery was exactly 69.4 degrees. I know this because I've a Bluetooth-enabled hygrometer strapped to the wall, which I refresh obsessively like I'm monitoring server uptime. My son, currently eleven months...

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The completely unglamorous truth about baby milk

You're standing in your kitchen at 3 AM holding a plastic container of white liquid up to the harsh microwave light. The baby is screaming in the other room. You're trying to remember if the water was supposed to go...

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London dad feeding twins their baby first food while covered in pureed carrots

Surviving the Absolute Chaos of Your Baby First Food Milestone

There's a very specific sound that pureed sweet potato makes when it hits a freshly painted Victorian ceiling, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that it resembles a wet golf ball striking mud. I was standing in our...

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What I Wish I Knew About The Great Cow's Milk Transition Phase

Dear Jess from exactly six months ago. I see you standing in the dairy aisle at the local HEB, staring at the red cap on a gallon of whole milk like it’s a radioactive artifact. You're sweating through your favorite...

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Is That Tiny Baby Nutribullet Actually Worth Your Counter Space?

I was standing in my kitchen staring at a raw sweet potato like it had personally offended me, completely paralyzed by the sheer volume of conflicting advice I’d received in the last forty-eight hours. My mother-in-law had just been leaning...

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The Complete Chaos of Navigating That Viral Jalebi Baby Trend

It was 8:45 AM on a Tuesday, and I was trapped in the preschool drop-off line in my Honda CR-V smelling like three-day-old dry shampoo and desperation. Maya, who was four at the time, was kicking the back of my...

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