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Dad desperately trying to feed pureed turkey to messy twin babies in highchairs.

The Truth About Turkey Babies: Surviving The Meat Puree Stage

My mother-in-law cornered me by the kettle last Tuesday, brandishing a whisk, to announce that giving a six-month-old anything but pureed carrots would shatter their digestive tract into a million pieces. My health visitorβ€”a woman who speaks exclusively in NHS...

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A messy toddler covered in sticky barbecue sauce sitting in a high chair.

Why Barbecue Sauce is a Toddler Nightmare (And What to Do Instead)

It's 2:00 PM on the Fourth of July, it's ninety-eight degrees in the shade, and I'm sweating through a grey maternity tank top that I should have thrown away three years ago. Leo is fourteen months old and his face...

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Vetting Caregiver Platforms & Stopping the Sugar Baby Madness

It was exactly 10:14 PM on a Tuesday, which is already a deeply offensive time for me to be awake, let alone wearing hard pants. My husband Mark and I had just gotten back from our first actual "date night"...

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When Can Babies Eat Solid Food Without Ruining My Life

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting in the dark nursery wearing a nursing tank that smelled strongly of sour milk and desperation. Leo, my oldest, was four months old and currently latched onto me like...

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How We Survived Slow Cooker Pork Ribs Without A Trip To The ER

The apartment smelled like brown sugar and smoked wood. It was a freezing November Sunday in Chicago, and I had the slow cooker going on low since six in the morning. Rohan was eight months old, sitting in his high...

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An 11-month-old baby making a massive red mess while eating baby lasagna in a high chair.

Decoding Baby Lasagna: How to Feed Your Infant Without a System Crash

My mom called me on a Tuesday to say she fed me Stouffer’s frozen meat lasagna when I was six months old and I turned out completely fine, which is debatable considering my current anxiety levels. Ten minutes later, my...

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Why a baby harp seal cured my ridiculous mom guilt

The rhythmic, mechanical wheezing of my breast pump at 3:17 AM is the soundtrack to my biggest parenting epiphanies. There I was with my oldest kid, Liam, about four years ago. I was exhausted, leaking milk onto a pile of...

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The Truth About Baby Gravy: Why Sunday Roasts Need a Rewrite

It's 2019. Sunday roast at my mother-in-law's house. Maya is eight months old and currently mashing a piece of dry chicken into her highchair tray with the kind of intense focus usually reserved for defusing bombs. My mother-in-law, bless her,...

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Is the $25 Baby Chair Ikea Sells Actually Safe for Weaning?

It was 98 degrees in late July, the Texas humidity was thick enough to chew, and I was standing in my front yard in flip-flops blasting a white plastic bucket seat with the jet setting on my garden hose. Neon...

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