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Exhausted mom drinking coffee while baby sleeps in a crib

Hiring A Baby Sleep Consultant Saved My Sanity (And Marriage)

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. I was wearing Dave’s stained college sweatpants, nursing my four-month-old son Leo for the seventh time that night, and staring at the glowing screen of my phone through eyes that felt like they...

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The Late Night Panic Guide To Baby Shaking Head Side to Side

You're staring at the grainy green footage of your baby monitor at two in the morning. Your kid is doing this aggressive, rhythmic thrashing thing against the mattress. It looks like they're trying to start a mosh pit in a...

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The UK Cheerleader Baby Story Is Our Biggest Motherhood Nightmare

Let's just obliterate the biggest, most dangerous lie the hospital discharge nurses hand you right along with those giant mesh underwear. The absolute biggest myth of motherhood is that your "maternal instinct" is some kind of magical, invisible force field...

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The midnight origami crisis: A letter to my past swaddling self

Dear Past Tom, You're currently sitting on the edge of a plastic-covered mattress in the maternity ward of St Thomas' Hospital, staring at a screaming, red-faced potato named Alice, while her twin sister, Lucy, is somehow already escaping the blanket...

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