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Tired British dad holding a teething G Baby and a silicone sloth teether in a London flat at 3am

The Night My G Baby Discovered Her Gums (and Destroyed My Sanity)

It was 3:14 in the morning on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on the edge of the bath in our London flat, entirely motionless, letting my daughter chew aggressively on my left clavicle. We had recently started calling her...

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Maya chewing furiously on a green textured silicone teething ring

Beissringe Silikon: The Ugly Truth About Teething Advice

Let's rewind to Maya at four months old. I was wearing a gray nursing tank that smelled strongly of sour milk and desperation, and it had this weird yellow yogurt stain on the left strap that I had completely given...

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A partially chewed wooden and silicone teether resting on a coffee table near my laptop.

Why our pediatrician vetoed the freezer and pushed a beissring holz

It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in front of the open freezer in my boxers, holding a bright blue plastic hippo filled with mystery gel. Our eleven-month-old son was in the other room, screaming like...

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Baby chewing on a chilled silicone panda teether next to a wet washcloth.

Dear past Priya: Drop the toxic gel teething ring right now

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently standing barefoot on the cold kitchen tile at three in the morning. The refrigerator compressor is humming, and your son is doing that raspy, exhausted whimpering thing that makes you feel like...

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Tired mother holding a silicone teether and looking stressed

Why That Freezer Teether Ring Is Actually Making Your Baby Cry

It was three in the morning in the middle of a Chicago February. The kind of bitter cold that seeps right through the windowpanes and makes the old apartment radiator hiss like an angry cat. My toddler was cutting his...

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Baby chewing on a chilled silicone teether while sitting in a high chair

Why That Ice-Solid Teething Toy Myth Needs to Die Immediately

It's 3 AM and you're staring into the abyss of your freezer. Next to the ancient bag of edamame and the breastmilk stash you're too paranoid to throw away, there's a plastic ring shaped like a starfish. It's frozen completely...

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A natural rubber teether sitting next to a chewed-up laptop charger on a desk

Naturkautschuk Beißring: A Dad’s Guide to Teething Hardware (66 chars)

It was exactly 3:14 AM when I realized my eleven-month-old had somehow bypassed the living room baby gate and was quietly trying to soothe his terribly swollen gums on the braided power cord of my MacBook Pro. There was a...

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A textured natural rubber teething ring resting on a knitted baby blanket

Natural Rubber Teethers: The Mistakes I Made Early On

Three in the morning is a bad time to evaluate your parenting choices. The radiator in our Chicago apartment was hissing, my toddler was trying to gnaw his own fist off, and I was frantically digging through the freezer. I...

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A half-chewed natural rubber teething ring sitting on a burp cloth

Why Freezing Your Natural Rubber Teether Is a Terrible Idea

I was standing in my kitchen at 2:14 AM wearing nothing but an oversized t-shirt and nursing pads, violently chipping ice off a rubber ring with a butter knife. My oldest son, Leo, was in the background doing that high-pitched,...

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