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A tired mom holding her four month old baby on an organic cotton play mat

Surviving Your 4 Month Old Baby: The Truth About Sleep and Sanity

Everyone tells you that once you hit the sixteen-week mark, the clouds part and the angels sing. They call it the end of the fourth trimester, like you're suddenly crossing a finish line into this magical land of predictable naps...

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Carrying His Babies Stealing His Heart: Expecting Twins Reality

I was sitting in the dark at 3 a.m., trying to keep my eyes open while my son aggressively refused to sleep. The breast pump was making a mechanical wheezing sound that I swear had a syncopated rhythm to it....

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Sarah holding a cold coffee looking stressed while reading about generational trauma

What The Gypsy Rose Baby Taught Me About Generational Trauma

It’s 3:14 AM. I’m sitting on the cold tile of my bathroom floor wearing Dave’s gross college sweatpants with the mysterious bleach stain on the left knee, holding a sleeping Leo who currently feels like a thirty-pound sack of wet...

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Jess folding laundry while discussing postpartum realities and baby essentials

What The Hailey Bieber Baby News Actually Taught Me About Postpartum

Three different people gave me completely different advice the week before my oldest was born, and not a single bit of it was helpful. My mom sat at my kitchen island, swirling the ice in her sweet tea, and promised...

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Miss Nikki Baby, Rainbow Babies, and Tuning Out the Internet Noise

I spent the entirety of my second pregnancy locked in the downstairs half-bath, doom-scrolling baby forums until my legs fell asleep and my phone battery hit two percent. I was convinced every tiny twinge was a catastrophe, and I was...

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The pretty baby brooke shields documentary totally broke my brain

It was 11:43 PM on a random Tuesday, and I was sitting on the couch in my husband Mike's college sweatpantsβ€”the ones with the highly questionable bleach stain on the kneeβ€”eating slightly stale goldfish crackers directly off Maya's Elsa plate....

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Rosemarys Baby Skincare: Herb Safety And Motherhood Anxiety

Listen, my living room smelled like eucalyptus and deep regret. I was staring at a dark green glass dropper bottle at two in the morning, holding my four-month-old son who was currently covered in a bright red, furious rash. The...

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Exhausted mom holding the TV remote while folding baby clothes

Letter to Past Me: That Sorry Baby Movie Is Definitely Not A Comedy

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the faded living room rug in your yoga pants, elbow-deep in a mountain of mismatched toddler socks, staring blindly at the streaming menu. Your oldest is trying to feed his...

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A tired mom babywearing her sleepy infant in a wrap carrier in the kitchen.

The Reality of Raising a Baby Koala: How to Survive the Cling

It's currently two o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon, and I'm trying to pack three customized initial sweatshirts for my Etsy shop using exactly one hand, because my youngest, Leo, is currently attached to my torso like a damp, heavy little...

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