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A tired mom holding coffee while looking up rora baby monster info on her phone.

Decoding the Rora Baby Monster Phase Without Losing Your Mind

I was wearing Dave's faded gray Boston College sweatpants—the ones with the questionable stain on the left knee—and my hair was in a knot so tight it was giving me a tension headache. It was 3:14 AM. I know the...

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My honest nurse review of those famous Korean bulk baby wipes

Standing in the glowing fluorescent aisles of a massive warehouse club, staring at a cardboard mountain of Rico wipes. You know the ones. Every mom group on the internet treats them like sacred texts. Another parent bumps my cart to...

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A tired mother holding a baby panda teether in a dimly lit nursery room

Letter to myself about red panda babies and surviving the night

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the peeling linoleum of the nursery floor at three in the morning, staring at a pile of unwashed swaddles and frantically googling the birth weight of exotic animals. You think...

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A tired mom holding her sleeping baby in a dim nursery rocker

Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby: A Letter To My Past Self

Dear Jess from six months ago, You're currently sitting in that squeaky wooden rocking chair, staring at the peeling paint on the window sill because it's 3:14 AM and the baby finally closed his eyes. You just blindly typed a...

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Tired mom standing in a messy kitchen holding a crying newborn baby

What Nobody Tells You About The Weird Belly Button Phase

I was standing in my kitchen staring at a newborn who wouldn't stop screaming, sweating completely through my cheap nursing tank, while getting three entirely different sets of instructions from the women in my life. My mama was digging in...

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A dad looking stressed at his phone while his baby daughter spins in the living room

The "Baby Girl Let Me See You Twirl Lyrics" Viral Audio Trap

My thumb was hovering over the bright blue "Post" button when Sarah’s hand shot across the kitchen island and physically tackled my phone into the fruit bowl. "What are you doing?" my wife asked, looking at me like I had...

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A tired mother looking at her phone in a dark nursery

A late night letter to myself about the baby gap discount code

Dear Priya from last November. You're sitting in the dark. The baby is finally down after three false starts. Your phone screen is blinding you because you forgot to turn on night mode. You're staring at a cart containing fourteen...

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Tired mom drinking coffee while checking her baby's temperature

The Real Baby Fever Meaning: From Cute Cravings to 2 AM Panics

I was standing in the baby aisle of a Target in 2014, wearing one of those aggressively chunky infinity scarves that were a literal choke hazard, weeping into my overpriced iced Americano. A woman had just walked past me wearing...

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A tired mom sitting on the living room floor keeping a large dog away from a newborn

How to Bring a Baby Home to Your Dog Without Losing Your Mind

I was sitting on my faux-Navajo living room rug, covered in sour milk spit-up, physically restraining my 70-pound mutt Buster by his collar while my newborn screamed in the bassinet, trying to mentally sort through the absolute circus of advice...

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