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A Letter To Myself About The Chaos Of The Baby Crawling Phase

It's 2:14 PM on a Tuesday. I'm wearing black yoga pants that haven't seen the inside of a gym since 2018, and a gray t-shirt stained with breastmilk and what I'm desperately hoping is just mashed sweet potato. I'm nursing...

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Decoding Baby First Tooth Symptoms: A Late-Night Debugging Guide

Dear Marcus circa six months ago: It's currently 2:14 AM, you're holding a glowing digital thermometer like a tricorder, and you're staring into the mouth of a very angry tiny human. You're convinced her entire operating system is crashing. You're...

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The Panic Over Getting a Baby Helmet for Flat Head Syndrome

Dr. Lin pulled out a pair of large plastic calipers, and my stomach immediately dropped. We were at the four-month checkup, and I had fully expected a standard firmware updateβ€”weigh him, check his reflexes, use the scheduled vaccines, and send...

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Creating A Salt-Free Dry Rub For Baby Back Ribs To Feed My Baby

It was 2:14 PM on a sweltering Sunday in late August, and I was sitting on that one patio chair that always mysteriously pinches the back of my left thigh. I was drinking my third iced coffee of the day...

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Dear Past Priya: You Need a Busy Baby Mat to Survive Restaurants

Dear Priya from last October. You're currently sitting in booth three at the diner on Lincoln Avenue, pretending you aren't about to cry into your lukewarm coffee. Your six-month-old just threw his wooden teething ring onto the black-and-white tile floor...

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Why You Need a Baby Sign Language Chart in Your Kitchen

I was standing barefoot on a kitchen floor completely covered in soggy, half-chewed Cheerios, furiously tapping my fingertips together at my red-faced nine-month-old while yelling over his screams about how he just needed to do the little hand thing if...

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How One Cheap Walmart Baby Gate Almost Ruined My Entire Weekend

There I was, standing in aisle 14 of an Orlando Walmart at two in the morning while visiting my wife’s American family, holding what I believed to be a simple piece of plastic and mesh. I was completely unaware that...

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Exactly what vaccines do babies get? A twin dad's messy guide

We were sitting in the waiting room of our local GP surgery, surrounded by faded posters from 1998 warning about the dangers of excessive screen time, which felt deeply ironic given I was desperately playing a brightly coloured cartoon on...

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When Can Babies Have Juice: The 3 AM Apple Juice Disaster

It was 2:14 AM on a random Tuesday, and I was sitting cross-legged on the cold linoleum of my kitchen floor staring blindly at the humming refrigerator. I was wearing a maternity tank top that I'm pretty sure had three-day-old...

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