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Newborn Baby Eyesight: When Do Their Optical Sensors Boot Up?

I was holding him roughly three hours after the emergency C-section, doing that weird head-bobbing thing people do when they want a golden retriever to look at them. He just stared blankly through my left earlobe. My wife, still half-numb...

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The Brutal Truth About Buying Newborn Baby Girl Clothes Today

Before the twins were born, my mother insisted they needed tiny, stiff Victorian dresses with matching lace knickers, presumably just in case the Queen resurrected herself and invited our offspring to a formal garden party. My mate Dave, three pints...

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Is the Newton Baby Crib Mattress Really Worth Three Hundred Bucks?

My mom told me to put my firstborn on his stomach with a heavy quilt "so he feels secure like he's still in the womb." The lactation consultant at the hospital swore he needed to sleep on my bare chest...

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The Chaos of Niche Chinese Babies Lyrics in Our London Flat

It was 6:13 AM on a Tuesday, and my living room floor was already covered in a sticky layer of crushed oatcakes and unidentifiable moisture. Twin A had Twin B in what I can only describe as a competitive headlock...

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Dad holding an 11-month-old baby wearing tiny flexible sneakers at a park

A clueless dad's guide to buying Nike baby shoes and apparel

We're at Washington Park in Portland, and the temperature is exactly 62.4 degrees. The sky has that flat, gray, overcast quality that makes for decent smartphone photos, which is great, because I've dressed my 11-month-old son like a backup dancer...

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The Honest Truth About Nike Baby Clothes and Sizing

When I was pregnant with my first, I got sat down at my own baby shower and given three entirely different lectures on how to dress a newborn. My mom, bless her heart, insisted babies only need those white cotton...

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Why the Nike Swoosh 1 Changed How I Think About Baby Shoes

It was a random Tuesday, maybe 9 AM, and I was wearing leggings that definitely hadn’t been washed since Sunday. I was hovering by the microwave, nursing my third cup of aggressively mediocre dark roast, when my mother-in-law dropped a...

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The Nintendo Baby Video Chat Hack That Saved My Postpartum Sanity

It was 3:14 AM, the absolute worst time of the night, and the only light in my Texas living room was the soft, blue glow of my TV screen. My oldest sonβ€”who I love dearly but who is the ultimate...

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Vicks Baby Rub: Surviving 3 AM Coughs Without Poisoning Them

It's precisely 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and my London flat currently sounds like a seal sanctuary that has been taken over by aggressive chain-smokers. Twin A has just unleashed a barking cough that rattled the windowpanes, which immediately triggered...

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