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Exhausted dad holding twin girls while staring suspiciously at a small kitten sitting inside a wooden baby bassinet.

Letter to My Past Self: Surviving Twin Girls and a Baby Cat

Dear Tom. You're currently standing in the kitchen at 4:13 AM holding a half-empty bottle of Calpol, shivering in your dressing gown, and staring at a tiny, bewildered creature that your wife just brought home in a cardboard box. You...

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Dad looking confused at a complicated modern travel system in the rain

The Mobile Sleep Unit: What I Got Wrong About Baby Transport

The rain is coming down sideways in the Trader Joe's parking lot, and I'm standing next to the open trunk of my Subaru, violently jiggling the folding mechanism of a twelve-hundred-dollar rolling chassis while my eleven-month-old screams from the backseat...

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A tired father holding a baby while looking confused in a grocery store

The Absurd Truth About The Baby Camel Trend Invading London

I was standing in a fiercely over-lit organic grocer in Hackney at 7:15 in the morning, holding a squirming toddler under one arm like a bag of wet cement, when I saw it. A tiny, violently expensive glass bottle labeled...

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A stressed mom holding a tiny baby shoe and looking for a baby brown recluse spider

Dear Me: Surviving a Baby Brown Recluse Spider Scare in the Nursery

Dear Sarah from six months ago. You're currently standing in the laundry room at 2:14 AM wearing a milk-stained inside-out nursing tank and one sock. You're holding Maya's tiny pink shoe under the blinding fluorescent light, squinting at a squished...

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A squished floret of cooked green broccoli on a baby high chair tray.

The Midnight Baby Broccoli Incident And How We Survived

2:14 AM. That’s exactly when the smell hit me. It wasn’t a dirty diaper, though heaven knows I checked with the flashlight on my phone while trying not to wake my husband. It was this creeping, sulfurous cloud rising from...

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Jess's messy kitchen counter showing a bottle sterilizer next to clean silicone teethers and glass bottles

My Honest Journey to Finding the Best Baby Bottle Sterilizer

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing over a pot of rolling boiling water with a pair of metal kitchen tongs, desperately trying to fish out a pump flange before it melted to the bottom of...

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A bewildered dad staring at a sleeping newborn baby

A Baby Born In Portland: My Complete First-Time Dad Meltdown

The thermostat in Room 314 of the maternity ward was locked at exactly 68 degrees, but I was sweating through my gray hoodie like I was pushing a critical database update to production at 2 AM with no backup. My...

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Toddler pulling off heavy winter boots on a rug

Dear Past Priya: The Ugly Truth About Buying Baby Boots

Dear Priya from last November. You're currently wedged between the radiator and the front door of our Chicago apartment, sweating completely through your shirt. You're trying to wrestle a screaming nine-month-old into a tiny fleece snowsuit while staring at a...

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A confused dad looking at his phone next to a baby playing with wooden toys

Decoding the Baby Booter Slang: A Dad's Guide to Internet Traps

My mother-in-law texted me at 7:00 AM asking if I'd installed the "booter seat" in the car yet. An hour later, a buddy from my old dev team Slack messaged me a laughing emoji and said I was officially a...

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