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What Is A Tornado Baby Medical Truth I Wish I Knew

You're sitting in the windowless interior hallway of our Chicago apartment right now, sweating through a t-shirt while the sirens blare outside. The dog is pacing, the power is flickering, and you're frantically scrolling through your phone trying to figure...

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Feeding Baby Chicks: A Letter From Six Months in the Future

Dear Tom of six months ago, You're currently standing in your kitchen, staring at a cardboard box from the post office that's vibrating. It sounds like it contains a hundred tiny, furious alarm clocks. You think you've made a lovely,...

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When Do Babies Discover Their Feet: A Letter to My Anxious Self

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're sitting on the nursery rug at 3 AM. The glow of the humidifier is casting weird shadows on the wall, and your kid is lying flat on his back, staring at the ceiling...

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How to survive a woven baby wrap without losing your mind

I was standing in the hallway at two in the morning. Maya was screaming the kind of red-faced scream that sets off your fight or flight response. I was holding a five-meter strip of linen like it was a giant...

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Predicting the Unpredictable: The Truth About Infant Eye Color

I was sitting under the punishing, flickering fluorescent lights of the NHS maternity ward, nursing a tepid cup of instant coffee, when Twin A finally opened her eyes and looked right at me. I had spent the better part of...

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The Great Sippy Cup Betrayal: Finding A Safe Baby Cup That Works

I was sitting on my sister's beige sofa—and really, who buys a beige sofa when they've a toddler and a dog?—at Thanksgiving a few years ago when the great cup wars began. I was holding Leo, who was exactly six...

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The Truth About That Cute Baby Milo Keychain (And My Mom Guilt)

It was a random Tuesday in October, like, 2018 maybe? Maya was about seven months old, and we were sitting outside this aggressively hip coffee shop in Brooklyn—the kind where a basic iced oat milk latte costs seven dollars and...

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Why baby jane bourbon is a childproofing nightmare

When my son's first tooth started aggressively pushing its way through his lower gums last month, I received three distinct pieces of troubleshooting advice. My dad, operating on legacy parenting code from 1989, told me to just rub a drop...

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Exactly How Much Space Do You Need for a Baby Grand Piano?

My mother-in-law confidently told me we should just stick the instrument right against the front bay window because the natural afternoon light would look gorgeous on the polished mahogany. The guy at the local music shop told me that if...

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