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Six-month-old baby safely gnawing on a slow cooked pork rib bone.

Why You Should Hand Your Six-Month-Old a Pork Rib Bone Today

My mother-in-law nearly dropped her chai when I handed my six-month-old a six-inch pork rib bone. We were sitting on the patio in late July. She looked at me like I had just handed the baby a loaded weapon. The...

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Exhausted mom holding her sleeping newborn in a dim nursery

Let's talk about the newborn reality check with your baby baby

Listen. It's three in the morning and the white noise machine is making a rhythmic thumping sound that my sleep-deprived brain has somehow translated into that ancient baby baby justin bieber song. I'm staring at the ceiling fan, calculating exactly...

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Exhausted dad staring at a medicine bottle at 2 AM while holding a crying baby who feels like a tiny furnace.

Why That 81mg Baby Aspirin Bottle Is A Massive Parenting Trap

The digital clock on the microwave read 2:14 AM, the Portland rain was actively trying to dissolve our roof, and my 11-month-old son felt exactly like a MacBook Pro rendering 4K video on your bare legs. I was frantically bouncing...

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A bewildered dad trying to figure out why his baby is making weird hand gestures.

How Baby ASL Fixed Our 11-Month-Old's Communication Bugs

At 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, I was holding a perfectly warmed, 98.6-degree bottle of formula out like a peace offering, while my eleven-month-old son shrieked like a dial-up modem failing to connect. I tried the bottle again. He slapped...

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A newborn baby with mild red bumps on their cheeks sleeping on a bamboo blanket

Baby Acne Treatments That Actually Work According To A Nurse

I was staring at my newborn son's face under the harsh, unforgiving fluorescent light of our master bathroom at three in the morning. He was exactly three weeks old. Just two days prior, he had the kind of perfect, porcelain...

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Exhausted dad feeding peanut butter to twin girls in a messy London kitchen

The baby 2015 rulebook shift and why my mother is still appalled

My mother’s voice was echoing out of the iPad, bouncing off the kitchen tiles, and rising to a pitch usually reserved for discovering a burglar in the sitting room. I was holding a small, plastic spoon loaded with smooth peanut...

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A sleeping baby in a crib demonstrating a safe babies only sleep environment

The babies only survival guide for the newborn trenches

Listen. You're standing in the hospital parking lot, staring at a seven-pound human strapped into a car seat that looks like a NASA prototype, and you're realizing the discharge nurse actually let you leave. They just wheeled you out and...

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Close up of a newborn baby looking at the camera with wide bright eyes

So, are all babies born with blue eyes? What I actually learned

I was sitting in Mount Sinai hospital, room 412, wearing those horrific mesh underwear and a hospital gown that smelled vaguely of industrial bleach and desperation, holding my two-day-old son Leo. My husband, Dave, had just returned with the worst...

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Mom looking exhausted while scrolling through a baby list on her phone

How to Build Your Amazon Registry Baby List Without Losing It

I was thirty-two weeks pregnant with my oldest, Beau, sitting on the faux-wood laminate floor of our tiny rental house, sobbing hysterically because the internet told me I needed a three-hundred-dollar wipe warmer. The nearest big-box store was a forty-five-minute...

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