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The Tuesday Morning Hamster Trauma: Why Do Hamsters Eat Their Babies

It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in the sunroom wearing one slipper, an oversized t-shirt with a questionable yogurt stain on the shoulder, and holding my second cup of coffee because my four-year-old, Leo, had...

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Yellow Watery Diarrhea in Babies: What I Learned at 3 AM

2:14 AM. Chicago winter. The sound from the bassinet wasn't a cry, it was a wet, unmistakable explosion. I turned on the dim nursery lamp and found my previously pristine infant lying in what looked like a puddle of melted...

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The 3 AM baby doll lingerie search trap and safe sleep reality

My thumb hovered over the phone screen while my two-month-old used my left shoulder as a mattress. It was three in the morning. I was trying to remember if I gave him his baby d drops, while simultaneously trying to...

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What Nobody Tells You About the Clapping Milestone

I was sitting cross-legged on my living room rug, completely covered in pulverized Cheerios and dog hair, aggressively patting my hands together while chanting "yay!" like a deranged cheerleader. My oldest son, Tucker, who was about ten months old at...

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Exactly When Can You Tell The Sex Of A Baby? The Real Timeline

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting on the cold hexagonal tiles of the downstairs half-bath at 11:42 PM. You're wearing Dave's oversized college sweatpants with the bleach stain on the knee, and you're hyperventilating into a...

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When Can Babies Start Drinking Water: A Nurse's Honest Guide

July in Chicago is an absolute swamp. The humidity hits four hundred percent, the air feels like soup, and everyone loses their minds. When my daughter was two months old, we had a family barbecue during one of these heat...

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What's a Nepo Baby? Raising Hard Workers in a Privileged World

It was ninety-eight degrees in July, smelling heavily of cheap sunscreen and chlorine, when I realized I had created a monster. My four-year-old, Beau, was clinging to the edge of the community pool screaming bloody murder while the other kids...

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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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