What Will My Baby Look Like (And Other Late Night Mysteries)
I was thirty-four weeks pregnant, sitting in the dark at two in the morning, paying a sketchy app five dollars to merge my face with my husband's. The result loaded on my phone screen and I just stared at it....
The Midnight Panic: When Your Kid Finally Starts Kicking In There
It was exactly 2:14 AM. I know this because I was staring obsessively at the red digital clock on our microwave while sitting cross-legged on the kitchen floor. I was wearing my husbandβs oversized, threadbare college t-shirt, crying softly into...
The Absolute Chaos of Raising Twins and a Baby German Shepherd
I'm currently watching a forty-pound creature with ears the size of satellite dishes attempt to herd my two-year-old daughters into the downstairs loo. The creature, a dog who seems entirely unaware that he's not currently employed on a farm in...
Dear Past Tom: The chaotic truth about cooking meals for babies
Dear Tom from six months ago, You're currently standing in the kitchen at two in the afternoon, wearing a jumper that smells faintly of sour milk, staring at a blender full of steamed sweet potato. You have a very specific,...
The Great Baby Carrot Freakout And How We Actually Survived It
I was standing in my kitchen at exactly 2:14 PM on a Tuesday. I know the exact time because that's the precise moment my soul usually leaves my body every afternoon. I was wearing my husband Dave's gray college sweatpants...
Why buying your first baby boy shoes is a complete medical scam
Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently standing in a boutique in the West Loop holding a pair of miniature high-top sneakers that cost more than your favorite nursing scrubs. You're tracing the stiff leather with your thumb and...
Top Baby Boy Names 2025: From Vintage Charm to Nature Trends
I was sitting on my back porch in 103-degree Texas heat, seven months pregnant with my oldest, sobbing uncontrollably into a spiral notebook. My husband had just walked outside with a glass of ice water, taken one look at my...
The Great Flatlay Disaster: Twin Baby Announcement Ideas
The ultrasound gel was alarmingly cold, but that wasn't what made me stop breathing. It was the sudden, incredibly protracted silence from Janet, the NHS sonographer who had been cheerfully chatting about her spaniel just moments before. She squinted at...
Chasing the Average Baby Weight: A Twin Dad's Red Book Survival
There's a very specific, quiet humiliation reserved for parents standing in a drafty NHS community clinic in late November, frantically trying to undress a furious infant while a health visitor named Brenda hovers with a clipboard. You have to take...