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What is Jaundice in Babies? Surviving the Tiny Satsuma Phase

It was day three with the twins, and I was standing by our bedroom window in the bleak gray wash of a London November afternoon, holding Florence up to the light like a counterfeit twenty-pound note. She was asleep, completely...

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What Is Baby Powder Used For Now? The Truth For Modern Parents

I was wearing this horrific floral maternity dressβ€”the one with the giant sunflowers that basically made me look like a walking, heavily-breathing sofa from 1993β€”sitting on my sister’s beige rug opening gifts at my shower for Maya seven years ago....

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Why Teething Doesn't Cause High Temps (And Other 2 AM Truths)

I was sitting on my living room floor at two in the morning surrounded by half-packed Etsy orders when my oldest, Wyatt, started doing that high-pitched, dolphin-screech cry that shoots straight to your spinal cord. I picked him up and...

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The Ugly Truth: What Is An Anchor Baby And Why The Myth Hurts

My auntie Sheila told me last Thanksgiving that getting a green card is as easy as dropping a newborn on American soil. Two days later, a charge nurse in the pediatric ICU complained that half our beds were taken up...

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Exactly What Is A Baby Fox Called? (And Other Garden Debates)

Don't confidently tell your two-year-old twins that the small, twitchy orange creature currently investigating a discarded nappy by your garden bins is a 'puppy.' I made this exact catastrophic error last Tuesday at 6:15 am, desperate for five more minutes...

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What is a Baby Deer Called? (A Dad's Woodland Survival Guide)

Richmond Park is a very specific kind of purgatory at six-fourteen in the morning in late spring. The grass is entirely composed of freezing mud, the air is thick with that distinctly British drizzle that doesn't actually look like rain...

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What Is A Baby Booter? Decoding My Late Night Parenting Typos

I'm currently sitting on my living room rug matching tiny socks in the dark, trying desperately to keep my eyes open. Out here in the rural Texas hill country, 2 AM is incredibly quietβ€”just the hum of the AC, a...

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The Baby Brezza Formula Reality Check for Sleep-Deprived Dads

I'm standing in the kitchen at 3:17 AM in a pair of grey jogging bottoms that have seen much better days, desperately trying to count to six. Just the number six. But when you've twin two-year-old girlsβ€”who were, at the...

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Debugging the Baby Brezza Bottle Sterilizer: An Honest Dad Review

At 3:14 AM on a rainy Tuesday, I was standing over a pot of violently boiling water with a pair of silicone salad tongs, trying to fish out a breast pump flange without melting my fingerprints off. My wife was...

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