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A messy living room floor with a half-wrapped baby shower gift, diapers, and a folded organic cotton blanket.

The Brutal Truth About What to Buy for a Baby Shower

I'm currently sitting on my living room floor peeling dried hot glue off my thumb, trying to make a makeshift diaper cake look less like a leaning tower of trash, and thinking about the sheer amount of money I wasted...

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The Truth About Those Evo Baby Dragon Decks Everyone Is Playing

I was sitting on the living room rug yesterday, knee-deep in a mountain of mismatched toddler socks, when I got three completely different pieces of advice about the exact same problem. My mom called and told me boys just naturally...

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A pile of brand new infant sneakers and soft booties dumped out of a storage bin onto a nursery rug.

Why Parents Keep Posting For Sale Baby Shoes Never Worn Online

I'm currently sitting on the floor of Leo’s closet. It’s Tuesday, somewhere around 11 AM, and I'm wearing a faded college t-shirt that smells vaguely of sour milk and desperation. I've an iced coffee next to me that was hot...

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The Truth About Finding A Lone Baby Seal On A Rock At The Beach

Dear Jess from six months ago, who's currently standing on a freezing, aggressively windy Northern California beach holding a half-eaten bag of goldfish crackers while your three kids melt down in stereo. Put the cracker bag down, take a deep...

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The Unfiltered Reality of Raising a Baby and a Puppy at the Same Time

I was sitting flat on the cold kitchen linoleum at three in the morning, nursing a highly irritable four-month-old on my left side, while a ten-week-old golden retriever mix actively tried to swallow the fuzzy pom-pom off my right slipper....

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The Truth About Finishing A Baby Memory Book Without Crying

I was sitting cross-legged on the nursery floor at two in the morning with a glue stick in one hand and a stack of blurry hospital photos in the other, absolutely sobbing because I couldn't remember the exact circumference of...

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Rihanna New Baby: What Having Three Under Four Actually Means

I was standing in line at the local H-E-B last week with a cart full of clearance diapers and a toddler actively licking the shopping cart handle, when the cashier decided to lean over and tell me I really needed...

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What To Know Before Buying The Expensive Mori Baby Sleepwear

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I had my phone flashlight clamped between my teeth like a miner digging for coal. My oldest son, Beau, was four weeks old and screaming with the kind of lung capacity that...

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A remarkably chubby infant in a stretchy organic cotton bodysuit sitting happily on a wooden play mat.

The Truth About Raising Mega Babies When Standard Gear Fails You

I was standing in the fluorescent-lit hospital room, still completely numb from the waist down, watching my husband try to wrestle our firstborn into a "newborn" sized coming-home outfit that we had paid entirely too much for on Etsy. My...

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