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When do babies start clapping: a letter to my panicked past self
Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the jute rug in the living room. Your knees hurt. You have sung some variation of pat-a-cake forty-seven times today. Your coffee is cold and your eight-month-old is staring at...
When Babies Pull to Stand: The Messy, Exhausted Reality
I was wearing my favorite black leggingsβthe ones with the questionable yogurt stain on the left knee that I'd just sort of given up on washing out entirelyβand holding my third cup of lukewarm coffee. It was a Tuesday at...
Who Determines the Sex of the Baby? The Honest Truth
Pushing a broom across a gravel driveway in mid-July is a fool's errand, but there I was, six months pregnant, trying to sweep up damp pink confetti from a gender reveal cannon that had just backfired all over my husband's...
Who Is Baby Gronk? (And Why My Toddler Is Retiring From Sports)
It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, the baby was aggressively attached to my left boob, the glow of my phone screen was fully illuminating my double chin, and I was deep-scrolling through videos of a ten-year-old boy deadlifting weights...
Why Are Babies So Cute? A Dad's Guide to Infant Hardware
My mom visited us in Portland last week and confidently announced that infants are adorable so we don't accidentally leave them in the woods when they haven't slept in three days. The very next morning, my lead developer coworker told...
Why an innocent sip of water is your baby's worst enemy
It was August, the kind of oppressive, sticky London August where the pavement smells vaguely of roasted bins and the air in our second-floor flat had achieved the exact consistency of soup. The twins were four months old. They were...
The Gross But Normal Truth About Your Infant's Crusty Flaky Scalp
Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting on your sister's absolutely hideous beige sectionalβthe exact one you told her not to buy because it shows literally every single spit-up stainβholding your brand new nephew. You're wearing those...
The Tuesday Morning Hamster Trauma: Why Do Hamsters Eat Their Babies
It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in the sunroom wearing one slipper, an oversized t-shirt with a questionable yogurt stain on the shoulder, and holding my second cup of coffee because my four-year-old, Leo, had...
I Bought the Aesthetic WildBird Carrier So You Don't Have To Guess
It was 2:14 AM, I was pacing the hallway with my oldestβthe child who firmly believed that setting him down would trigger an ancient curseβwhen Instagram served me an ad for the WildBird baby carrier. I was currently wearing a...