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A bewildered dad looking at his newborn baby's cone-shaped head in a hospital room

Surviving A Cone Head Baby: When Your Newborn Looks Like An Alien

I had a spreadsheet for everything. Diaper count, precise bassinet temperature, best swaddle torque. But nowhere in my forty-two tabs of prenatal research did I account for the moment the delivery nurse handed me a creature whose skull looked like...

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Memo to past Marcus: What I wish I knew about black babies

You're currently holding your phone at a forty-five-degree angle under the nursery humidifier's weird blue LED light, trying to compare the exact hex code of your son's left earlobe to the back of your own hand. Stop doing that. You...

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Decoding Baby Vocals 3 Months In: A Nurse's Guide to Cooing

I was standing in the dark at three in the morning, holding a screaming potato of a human, trying to follow advice from a very expensive parenting app. The app told me that early language development requires measured, calm adult...

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A bottle of baby oil sitting next to a stack of nappies on a messy bedside table.

Dear Past Tom: Why Using Baby Oil as Lube is a Terrible Idea

Dear Past Tom, It's 11:14 PM on a freezing Tuesday in November. By some absolute miracle of the parenting gods, the twins are both asleep at the exact same time. Maya, who usually treats sleep as a mild suggestion, has...

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A tired father inspecting a seemingly dry baby nappy in the middle of the night.

The real signs of dehydration in babies (and other 3am panics)

The first time one of the twins caught a proper stomach bug, I received three distinct pieces of medical advice within a single afternoon. My mother-in-law suggested I give them a bottle of warm tap water because "it worked for...

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My chaotic journey with johnson and johnson baby powder

I'm currently staring at a pristine, vintage-looking white bottle that my mother-in-law managed to smuggle into our London flat like highly illegal contraband. She placed it next to the nappies with a conspiratorial wink, whispering that the twins "needed to...

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My 3 AM Deep Dive Into the Island Boy Baby TikTok Drama

My phone brightness was turned down to one percent, but it still felt like staring into the sun. It was 3:17 AM. My 11-month-old son was asleep on my chest, entirely dead weight, snoring faintly with his mouth hanging open....

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A tired mom trying to give liquid vitamin D drops to a squirmy baby in a cotton bodysuit.

The Real Deal on Vitamin D for Babies (And Why It's So Messy)

The coconut oil carrier fluid was running all the way down my left elbow, pooling in the crook of my arm, and dripping onto the dog’s head. It was 2:14 AM. My oldest, Jackson, was exactly three weeks old, screaming...

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Exhausted dad staring suspiciously at a red hemangioma mark on his baby's shoulder.

The Absurd Reality of Raising a Hemangioma Baby (And Not Dying)

If you ever find yourself holding your phone's flashlight inches from your sleeping infant's shoulder at three in the morning while furiously typing "rapidly growing bright red lump" into a search engine, just shut the laptop and go to sleep,...

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