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Exhausted pregnant mom looking at baby growth app on her phone while holding a half-eaten bagel.

The Truth About Tracking Your Baby Size by Week in Pregnancy

It was a Tuesday at like 9:15 AM, and I was exactly 24 weeks pregnant with Leo. I was sitting in the terrifyingly quiet waiting room of my OB-GYN’s office, sweating straight through my favorite grey Zara sweater even though...

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What Actually Decides If You're Having a Boy or a Girl

I was six weeks pregnant with my oldest, aggressively dry-heaving into a paper cup in the passenger seat of my husband's truck, when my grandma leaned forward from the backseat and said, "If you want a girl, you need to...

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Top Baby Names: Picking One Without Starting a Family Feud

I was sitting at my kitchen island at 37 weeks pregnant with my oldest, eating dry cereal out of the box, staring at a yellow legal pad that looked like the diary of a madman. It was just a giant...

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My Sunny Side Up Baby Gave Me the Back Labor From Absolute Hell

It was 3:14 AM on the linoleum floor of Room 4 at Mt. Sinai, and I was wearing my husband Mark’s faded 2012 indie band tour t-shirt because nothing else fit my massive, 40-weeks-pregnant body. I was clutching the hospital...

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Late-Night Google Spirals: The Truth on Baby Hiccups in Womb

You're lying on your left side in the dark. It's roughly three in the morning, and your abdomen is executing a very specific, rhythmic jerk every four seconds. It feels less like the miraculous flutter of new life and more...

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A tired pregnant woman looking at a stack of blank baby shower envelopes

The 2 AM Envelope Meltdown and Other Baby Shower Realities

It was exactly 11:43 PM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on my living room rug wearing my husband’s stained college sweatpants, aggressively stress-eating cold leftover macaroni and cheese out of a Tupperware container. Spread out around me were...

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Pregnant woman sitting under an umbrella at an outdoor baby shower looking overheated

The brutal truth about picking baby shower places in the summer

It was ninety-four degrees in the Lincoln Park Conservatory when I realized my sister-in-law had made a terrible mistake. She had booked a corner of the botanical garden for my baby shower because the natural lighting filtering through the glass...

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A dad holding a tape measure at a potential baby shower venue in a modern cafe.

Debugging Baby Shower Venues: A Portland Dad's Honest Breakdown

My mother-in-law cornered me by the fridge to say the party absolutely had to happen in a formal tea room with finger sandwiches and little forks. Two hours later, my lead developer sent a Slack message insisting we just host...

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Pregnant woman holding a daily pill organizer with baby aspirin during pregnancy.

Baby Aspirin During Pregnancy: What My OB Actually Said

My mother-in-law told me eating papaya would cause an immediate miscarriage. A holistic momfluencer on TikTok swore that any over-the-counter painkiller would permanently alter my unborn child's DNA. Then my OB-GYN sat across from me at fourteen weeks, slid a...

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